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Show (lynch MAY j QUIT GAME I Rumor Says National 1 League President Is to 1 Retire This Winter Robert Brown Is Reported Re-ported to Be Slated ( For the Job (BY MONTY ) New York. July 12 As the situation situa-tion stands at present there Is ever) possibility that the annual elections f the National league next winter irill bring Into office ;i new president if the organization to succeed Thorn S J Lynch, according to the state taent here today or a man who ought J know. Unless some unforeseen Jrcumstances tremendously In favor If the former umpire who now Bits m the presidential chair should de-ftlop, de-ftlop, this Is his last year at the head jf the circuit, and the choosing of his luccessor may be considered as definitely def-initely scheduled, as the meeting of ibe club owntm, which will be held is usual, either Just before or just ifter the Christmas holidays. The man who will follow Lynch into in-to office has not been selected t n fact, what talk there has been imong the magnates in the matter las been from some one of them to lome other In a confidential way. and t baa amounted to little more than iwapping of opinions. Bui it appears Jiat Robert B. Broan of Louisville, he newspaper mun who was boomed !or the Job last winter, stands the est chance. Brown was practically ihopen last year when the trouble ltb Horace Focel cropped up. and .be way L.nch made the fight on lie backbiting Phil! ' magnate to ttlve him ou i "f !.-!nl! rendered M a necessity that the other club wners not only back up the execu-Ive execu-Ive In the particular problem, but ilsc vindicate him by a re-election D order to preserve a dignified appearance ap-pearance before the public However, Brown is not quite so itrong this time and there is a possi-lIHty possi-lIHty that some other man will be the lection. President Chlvington of mk American Association and Presi-lent Presi-lent Barrow of the International easue are ref i ll ) ,is capable ma-ria ma-ria I , and it Is not beyond possibility bat one of these two will find fa-r. fa-r. It 16 certain that .lohn Mont-pflDmery Mont-pflDmery Ward, who was all hut elected elect-ed two years atn, will not be norai , ated agnln. hecause of the antlpa-"Tjy antlpa-"Tjy of Ban Johnson, president of the kinerlc3n league. io him. j The trouble about Lynch is not that P.e has been Incompetent or unfair iB the discharge of his duty. There AB been no kirk heard along these nep In any quarter The main trouble trou-ble seem-- to be more with the mas: jfatet ln'h hat attempteri to be ft firm In his decisions In each prob- , lem that came up and, In not a dm jorlty, but at least too many cases,! hp has proved a little too severe for i them. He has portioned out fines and suspensions to offending players play-ers and manncers In much more wholesale style than did his predecessor, prede-cessor, the late Henry Clay Pulllam. Laeh club owner has acted offended personally when one of his employee: ' i suffered In this way The McGraw-Brennan case is one of the sort in question L nch s action ac-tion In suspending both of the parlies to the scrap and of fining Brennan ! appeared on the surface to have been a Just and correct ruling, but It brought n protests from the man agement of both the Phillies and Giants. Gi-ants. And the queer thing of It Is that the two clubs have not raised the question of the punishment being too severe, but say there should have been no punishment at all except to ' the man on the other side. It Is an old saying and a true one In this application ap-plication that It takes two to make a fight, and it would have been a fine state of affairs If Lynch had punished punish-ed one of the men and not the other Then the crv was lifted that Lynch shouldn't have interfered at all. that the trouble was dying out and being forgotten of Its own accord Wouldn't it look fine if a couple of ball players could stage a boxing bout on the field and get away with it without Incurring Incur-ring unv official action from above? The club owners are simply squeal Ing at everything Lynch does that happens to strike the Individual squealer a trifle harder than he had hoped The club owners do not like Lynch. He Is unpopular. That one little word is the key to the whole situation It la not any concerted move that will drive him out of office, of-fice, but the fact that each club owner own-er for himself knows of somebody else he would rather vote for and, if that man could not get a majority of I votes, the aforesaid owner would rfther vote for some compromise candidate can-didate than for the man who now Is at the head of the league. Lynch became president of the National Na-tional league only because of the deadlock of the magnates back In De (ember, 1909. John A, Heydler, now secretary-treasurer of the league, had been acting s president since the death of Pulllam In July of that year Then the league's annual election meeting was held, the otes were evenly divided four for Heydler and four for John Montgomroy Ward When it was seen that neither could be elected, a compromise candidate was sought, and the name of Lynch "as hit upon. He nerved during the year of 1910 without much opposition arising, but the next year several names began to bob up as rhals to blm. Including that of Brown ot Louisville, Lou-isville, who just now seems to be ' the nigger in the woodpile ' Iist year s election and the Influence of the Fo-gel Fo-gel case on It are remembered clearly. clear-ly. Now we find Lynch half way through his fourth year as head of the league, although the original intention in-tention was that he should aene only one But if we take the word of .Mr --but never mind his name he says be is going to lead the fight on Lynch I there will be no fifth. |