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Died. John Arnold Heydler, 86, old-time sportswriter, chairman of the board and longtime (1918-34) president of baseball's National League; after long illness; in San Diego. Heydler began his career as a printer's devil, once carried a proof of a Government document to the White House, where he recited Casey at the Bat for President Cleveland. He helped to install baseball's first commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, and was a pioneer in establishing the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown...
According to legend, John A. Heydler, who last month retired as president of the National League, was the first man to keep batting, pitching and fielding averages. No. 1 contemporary baseball statistician is a one-legged, dyspeptic North Carolinian named Al Munro Elias. Started in 1917, the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau Inc. now supplies some 1,000 U. S. newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world...
When President John Arnold Heydler of the National League last fortnight revealed that he had employed spies to report on the honesty of the final baseball games of the season, club-owners indignantly considered such action a serious slur on the sport. President Heydler, a onetime umpire, credited with inventing the practice of keeping baseball batting averages, promptly resigned from the job he has held since 1918, gave poor health as his reason...
...Cincinnati, Manager Charles Evard ("Gabby") Street of the world's champion St. Louis Cardinals saw a friend in a front box. Wearing his uniform, he went over to say hello. Umpire Reardon reported the incident to President Heydler of the National League, who fined Gabby Street...
...promptly retired from that post when his father was named Chief Justice. *Walter F. ("Dutch") Carter, Mr. Hughes's brother-in-law, famed oldtime Yale baseball pitcher, partner in Hughes, Schurman & Dwight, was last week named a director of the Brooklyn Baseball Club ("Robins") by John A. Heydler, National League president...