Clipping:Wikoff's AA presidency; McKnight
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| Date | Wednesday, July 13, 1887 |
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| Text | [from the Baltimore correspondent's column] No doubt Mr. Wikoff is a good executive officer—in fact, a better secretary and treasurer than president. It was supposed he was selected to merely do the routine work of the office—to keep the records and accounts in proper shape, and this he is eminently capable of doing. It appeared to be the intention that he should only be nominally the president, and that the “chairman” should really do the duties of the office—or, rather, advise the president what to do, and that advice should in fact amount to an instruction by which he should be guided. Even if the intention was not such, the practice has been so. Mr. Wikoff has usually been guided by the instructions (or advice if that word if preferred) of Chairman Byrne first and Chairman Phelps latterly. This advice has usually appeared to be impartial and wise. However, it would undoubtedly be much better to have a capable man for that office, whoever that may be, and then not only make him president in name, but in fact. No manager should ask of the president, nor should he grant, special favors. He should be the servant of the Association and not of any one club or clique of clubs. A manager should remember that a very temporary advantage may be gained by having a special favor granted, but that the system is evil, and that he and the general welfare of the game will suffer from such practices in the long run. If the president will favor any one manager in any of his official acts he will certainly do so with another at the cost of the first one. Eventually it becomes a matter of who can make the hardest pull on the president. If he feels that the tenure of his office depends on his diplomacy in playing one manager against another, or, if he is convinced by the actions of managers that he must arrange, in executing his duties, a system of policy to keep their support, then come the troubles and annoyances of the past and the discredit of the game. This was the complaint against his predecessor, and it is asserted that to secure his last re-election he solemnly promised six different persons appointments on the schedule committee of three. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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