Show BARNARD MAY BECOME NEXT LEAGUE Billy Rilly Evans Is Mentioned Also to Succeed Ban Ball Johnson J By GEORGE GIORGI CHAD CHADWICK Special S Correspondent of The Standard Copyright 1927 Consolidated Con led Press Association MEW 1 YORK Oct 8 When When the 1 L. L 1 proper time arrives Ernest Bar Bar- Barnard Barnard nard president of the Cleveland base base- baseball baseball baseball ball club will 1111 be become be- be become 47 come president of the American t league succeeding Byron B y r p 0 n Bancroft 1 Johnson This T hiS is Is Iss s- s ps statement comes to s the writer from an S authority high In Inthe Inthe F the American Am e r I can league and baseball circles generally t Concerning o go this k Mr M tr Barnard knows 5 i absolutely nothing t which Is as a. a It f should be No one j knows anything t in rf C. C baseball e l until after no ithe H it happens and BILLY EVANS then everybody er seems to 1 have h a v c known all about It all the time What time remains before Mr Barnard as assumes as- as assumes assumes his new office is to have Ban Johnson step out which according to te the statement In his resignation he will do on November 1 I. ERY CONSERVATIVE CO SEt E Those who chose Mr SIr to head the junior baseball circuit must have reasons for their selection which they thc have c Tl Cleveland baseball magnate Is a aCry very Cry quiet conserva conserva- conservative tire tive young oun man with a n face that is solemn like the face of a school clerk and with lIh a dignity that wears ears well He has had the burden of be being be- be bethe I ing the head of a losing ball club which will make any man solemn One may pour Into the receptive car of Mr Barnard all the woes of ofa a n nation and he will sympathize deep deep- deeply ly I with the man using the funnel but ho will never tell the neighbors anything that he heard Mr Barnard began b ogan his Isis baseball life as a reporter of baseball events e In Columbus Ohio a practice which should have thoroughly cured him of his later folly It did not and he is isone Isone isone one of the few newspaper men who have ha shaken haken the typewriter to occupy I themselves with thoughts of the busi busi- business business business ness side of or baseball Most of o them have regretted It Ban Johnson did not but he varied his life as M a J. J base base- baseball baseball e- e ball executive by indulging his fight fight- me capacities to the limit Knowing Knowing- nothing of the fact that he is to be president of the American league Mr Barnard Brnard B knows nothing of or orthe the future policy of his organisation org Of course he probably is of the opinion opinIon ion that It is a fairly good POlICY as asit asIt asIt it stands except In Cleveland where is not a winning team but which has some new owners and in St St. Louis where there is also a losing team and a a. very fretful owner and andIn andIn andIn In Boston where there is a losing team and a aery very sery ambitious owner I Some kind of tonic Is likely to be pre pre- prescribed prescribed I scribed for these clubs Other teams tc ms I of his league Mr Barnard probably feels can take care of themselves very ery well New York which is now godfathering the whole league lea e although Connie Mack Stack In 1 Philadelphia occasionally rebels and threatens to kick things out ont of joint Now that Mr Barnard is slated to In tobe tobe Inbe be the next head of ol the American league unless the boys become Irritated Irritated si ir-si- over something and change their minds It Is pertinent to In observe that two too t o or three ambitious Caesars wished to wear the crown but were side side- tracked Edward Edvard G G. Barrow secretary of the New York Yankees would not have ave been bi en averse to the honor but one night he go got to about the time when he ho was v.-as president of the International league lea e and this brought hi to 10 his senses In effect he said EnId to himself himself- Ed Jd old bov boy this is where here v. v you let well enough alone and keLp keep on alone with wills the Yankees REFUSES OFFER I Henry would not have hare turned down a chance to be b president of the American lessene lie He Is doing well as a lawyer in Milwaukee There Is not a man in the American league who knows more about that circuit than he docs does Ho Ifo Ban John John- Johnson Johnon son cots build up the American league league and and It was largely because of the soothing Influence of Killilea salve that he made the Boston Americans para para- paramount paramount paramount mount In Interest to the Boston Na Na- Nationals who had held that honor for baseball ages Some writers boosted Billy Evans the veteran for forBan forBan forBan Ban Johnsons Johnson's job but Billy has in one way wa or another on the feelings s of a II lot of men who are high up IIi baseball and he faced considerable opposition There were one or two American league men who would have ha felt that they were rounding out a fine ca career ca- ca career reer veer In let baseball had it fallen to their lot to succeed Johnson They would have hare presided handsomely at the ban ban- banquet banQuet table and in the executive coun coun- councils but they were modest They have hare retained their ambitions In private or at least hl e breathed them but cas- cas to others pond nd as thines look now they will continue to hold a private ate clinic over o these thess t same ambitions I |