Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1918 — BASEBALL EXECUTIVE MAKES FINE RECORD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BASEBALL EXECUTIVE MAKES FINE RECORD

President Tener Has Done Much to Better National Game. His Administration One of Most Successful In League's Long History —Fostered Several Pieces of Legislation. John Kinley Tener, former professional baseball player, ex-congress-man, ex-governor of Pennsylvania, has resigned as president of the National league. President Tener was born July 25, 1863, in County Tyrone, Ireland, which makes him ineligible for the presidency of the United States, but as the executive head of the National league he has almost as many worries and responsibilities as the occupant of the White House. He certainly earns his salary of $25,000 a year. In the years preceding President Tener’s tenure of office, the National league was conducted pretty much as Mexico has been for the past several years. The Maderos and Huertas and Villas and CaiTanzas and Zapatas of the circuit split up into little cliques and waged almost constant warfare on each other. The selection of Governor Tener as president marked the

beginning of a period of comparative peace, internally, although the Federal league war gave the new chieftain and the club owners plenty to worry about. President Tener has fostered several pieces of baseball legislation which have helped to put the game on a better and firmer basis, and he has accomplished by indirect and diplomatic methods several reforms which his more autocratic counterpart of the American league. Ban Johnson, hasput through by imperial fiat 1 Mr. Tener’s long experience in the political game, his .personal knowledge of how it feels to be a big league player, and his Irish gift of gab, have enabled him to make his administration one of the most successful in the -league’slong history.

John K. Tener.