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Show PROPHETS OF BIG - BAN'S FINISH ARE AGAIN HANDED A RUDE IAKENING Made to Look Like Insects WhenThey Find fie" Is Still Very Much Alive; American Shows Way By Joe Vila pv &mm' YOI;K-l,p'- IjvXll ;t,s": '"'?; flljS. i hoclv look siiihII- r -fc: ' rr tl1" '"a , - rV" (Iiii'cin nf our "SV,C5jL old fricml. Hy- ""yVjV roil I! an croft PfAJJ Johnson, at the " fc-t- M (Mill Of till' Atui'ricHii It-ague nioetiiitf in C'hi-capo C'hi-capo IhnI wetkf ThfNi" insci-ti IihiI liren Idling how .Tolinsoii momIiI Ih forced to allii'Ht, how Harry Krazi-r was going ,0 mak j a monkey of hi in ami how Hurry j Herrmann, too, would In- hurled I into oblivion. Thry raved almnt ! the expected downfall of . liisr Han until their eye bulged like j liard boiled cp(fs. They wrote! columns of murk ami sIumIi nlmut the rclrllior.' of olul owiuts in the AiuirtrHti leaur, tost i- iratod by the inoxperif twvd Frazec. They told their rrmlrn to krep their earn open for a terrific explosion in Chirnpo ivhen FVa7.ec put a bomb untli-r the president of the Aiurrieau leapuo and several of them ae-tually ae-tually became no excited that they made the trip to the Windy City to at as coroner at the inquest. ' It was a killing shock when Johnxon rleerel the decks for action and Krazee suddenly discovered that he stood absolutely ab-solutely alone. The American league'tt indorsement of f.arry Herrmann for re-election re-election as chairman of the national . commission was the final blow which pent t he mlsgu ided k Hookers to t h floor for the count. Incidentally. Kraxee learned a grent lesson that one club owner cannot run the American league as long as John-ht John-ht n remains In jn present high office. I'raRee Is a live w.re. ty mistake, but he has been badly advlaed. He bit ff nutre than he could chew when he tried to discredit the president of his league by advocating William Howard Taft as aside baHeball arbitrator and I have ttft dntiM that he reulises bis mistake; NATIONAL STILL STUBBORN. But In spite of the results attained at the American league conclave, there, s a new war cloud on the horixon in the form of determination on the part of ' the Nation.! league to force the adoption adop-tion of a one-man commission. Certain Cer-tain National leaguers are bent on getting get-ting rid of Herrmann. They kept the "one -man plan" under cover until after aft-er the American league had agreed to the Joint conference. Then President fleydler disclosed the secret, thereby , creating the belief that unless there 1 a back duwu-ihcrii ll be serious trnu-1 tie. The Indorsement of Herrmann by the Johnson organization was most embarrassing embar-rassing for the National leaguers. They had gone on record as op (towed to Herrmann's Herr-mann's return to the commission, glv-. tog as a reason that the chairman of the future should be strictly nonpartisan. nonparti-san. Consequently they were placed j In a peeuHar ponttioti when seven. American league club owners agreed I with John mm that Herrmann, a Nu- J Hiatal leaguer, was entitle! to further ( recognition as a reward for his long t - and faithful service. i I'crhaps, after the National league j meeting ended here, eome of the inag- . nates arrived at the conclusion that Johnson had forced the election of , lieydler and thereby hangs a tale worth j repeating. With Herrmann uhent, : there was a caucus at which five clubs, j Httston. Chicago, St. Nails I'hiUulel-i phla and Brooklyn, pledged their votes) t.i John Cuneuy Tooie, the league s at- j torney. A committee of one met Toole ami asked him If he would accept the pie-I Idepcy. Toole was In ft armed that he would have five votes on the first ballot, bal-lot, whereupon he agreed with the understanding, un-derstanding, that he would e elected for two years at a salary of 110.00 per annum. Toole then wsa invited to go to the Waldorf at 2 o'clock prepared to Mlty. wasn't entitled to three years In j office st $12.04io jer annum. Herrmann put the magnates on the defensive and 1 thev proceeded- to elect Heydler on those terms. ! Nobody took the trouble to go down i stairs and advise Toole as to what had happened. The news leaked iut pre- mature. y and Toole learned of It by (accident He took his defeat with the utmost gooTi nature and was WHfiniy j congratulated on his tmrrow escape. But Jual the same Toole was treated to the rawest kind of a deal, typical of the way they do things In the National league. IF HEYDLER WILL ONLY RULE. Heydler's election will be a good thing for base ha 11 if be refuses to take i orders from the gentlemen w ho dis- gusted Oovernor Tener. He la one of I the finest fellows I've met. He's a J gentleman ami a scholar, an honest, j fearss. conscientious official who I loves the game and knows It from top to bottom Heydler it highly rnarded I by tiewipaier men; by J oh niton, Herrmann Herr-mann and. in fact, all of the major league magnatea. I The new president of the National I I league is an advocate of clean liaseball. 1 : With freedom to do aa he pleases, he , surely will have a rspah1e umpire staff. He knows from experience what the ' umpire, have to contend with and for jihat excellent reason he Is prepared to stand by them at all times. I take this opportunity to congratulate Heydler. Heyd-ler. whom 1 will aupHrt heurtily during dur-ing his term of office. I) remains to be seen, however, whether some of tlie National lengue club owners will accept President Heydler's rulings without making the usual fuss. U e know that John Is capubie and honorable, that he will play no favorites. .and will try to elevate ele-vate the game. Consequently the first time a club owner takes Issue with him It will te an easy matter to place the blame where it belongs. Heydler certainly showed characteristic character-istic courage when he- agreed to sit in Onvernor Tenor's big chair at National Na-tional league headquarters. But he'll fill it all right and some of the chib owners who (relieve that he will yield to their wishes soon will discover that they are very much In error. RELEASE OF PAT MORAN. take the chair as soon ss the votd had been counted. HERRMANN ARRIVES. Herrmann, meanwhile, bad arrived on the scene, prepared to make a strong campaign of Heydler. So while Toole was admitting to the reporters In the hotel lobby that he had the Job sewed up, Herrmann deftly adjusted the skids. On the first ballot Heydler had four votes New Tork, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Philadelphia, Tjole had three Boston, Chicago and Brooklyn while Barney Dreyfuss of Pltisburg (sat his vote for the inevitable Hubert Brown of Louisville. n On the second ballot Dreyfuss shifted shift-ed to Heydler. whose election was made unanimous, whereupon one of the majpuUee burned out to see If Heyd-er Heyd-er would accept. The latter turned down a sary of $10,000 and a two years' terra. Then another of the mag-ttates mag-ttates Jumped up and asked for the Immediate lection f Toole. This ral-, ral-, ly cave Herrirmnn the chance he waa lookiJie; for. Be asked bis fellow mag-auUea mag-auUea it UssT dldnt believe tbsU Heyd- jar. Is Tlaw oX felt jatthfamssai and ioyl 3 ' - The release or r-airicg ioran irom the management of the Phillies was a tremendous surprise. There must have been t me p ri a t e rea son for W . F. Baker's unexpected action, for neither would go Into details after the news had been given out. Jack Coombs has been named to succeed Mo ran and 1. am not one of those who bejieve the fans will turn thumbs down on him. Coombs Is popuar In Phllly and the soreness over Koran's release will heal. Moran will not be Idle long, inasmuch inas-much as he is one of the mtMt capable team handlers In the profession, a money saver for his club and a hustler for winning games. Of course- the baseball rumor factory is extremity busy these days. Last Thursday appeared ap-peared a yarn that Jonn McUraw had made an offer to buy the Cincinnati j Reds from Julius Fleischroann. Why? Because somebody saw the Giants leader talking" with the former mayor of Pork ville at the Waldorf On Friday all the morn ins; papers carried a story that M'"Graw, backed by Jim Gaffney. waa trying to purchase pur-chase the Gl&nta WhyT Because Mc-Oraw Mc-Oraw and OaXIner were aeea toe ether tn PeuriMk alley the nlfht hefore Hemnann look the trouble to denjr th, McGraw-Klelachman fajia, while Gartner Gart-ner laughed until hi HtM ached wlieti h, ra4 tks other canard. |