Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-23 | Page 31 | August Herrmann Ready to Resign

(AUGUST HERRMANN 'READY TO RESIGN President of Cincinnati Reds Only Waiting Wait-ing for ttik Successor as Chainnan of National Baseball Commission. August Herrmann, president of the champion Cincinnati Reds, is ready to resign as chairman of the national baseball base-ball commission as soon as his successor is named. Also, he is anxious to bring about an understanding between the warring war-ring factions of the American league, via. Ban Johnson, president, and the board of directors, which is controlled by Rap-perl, Rap-perl, Comiskey and Frazee. He wants to see peace in the American circuit. He is alarmed at the "third league" talk that has been going around, and the rumors of a baseball war. "Suggestions have been made that I resign as chairman of the national commission," com-mission," said Herrmann recently. "I have already made my position clear in that matter. I am ready to step down and out when my successor Is named; I was a party to the proceeding in the National league which decided that some man. not a club owner or identified with either league, should be the new chairman. chair-man. "But my resigning now. with the committee com-mittee which is choosing my successor at loggerheads, would gain nothing. The commission would simply be left without a chairman and the selection of the successor suc-cessor would not be hurried at all."