New-York tribune., 1920-11-16
Plan Measure
Also to Curb
Club Owners
Colonel Huston Says Selec-
ton of Judge Lands Will
Prove Beneficial to Game
By w. ]. Macbeth

Peace has succeeded war IN organ
ICED baseball and everybody seems
happy to let sleeping dogs lie. For the
time the petty animosities that have
disturbed the tranquility of the ma
.iocsl game are forgotten, and at least
.As CREST majority are pulling for q
new deal, with untramnleled rights for
all.
Those who are directly interested
financially in the promotion Of organ
iz.d ba,eball seem content TO rest the
issue in The judgment and acumen Of
Kenesaw Mountain Lands, the Chicago
iur;st, vino has been universally in
do-sed as the supreme head and die
tator Of the government Of the game
The sentiment OF the local repre-
returned Sunday from Chicago may
psrhsps be best illustrated In the at
ttuds Of Colonel T L. Huston, who
because OF illness was unable 10 at
tend the big conclave in the Windy
City, but vro nevertheless kept well
posted on a.. that transpired there.
Lauds Selection Of Jurist
"The selection Of Judge Lands as
supreme head o. organized baseball
cannot but have the most beneficial
results" said Colonel Huston at his
toms last night.
THE Chicago jur!st commands the
UNQUALIFIED faith not only OF every one
who has money invested in the game
but also Of the rank and file OF fan
DOM He IS the one man able TO act
Is sole arbiter of the various disputes
that are bound 70 arise.
Many serious problems confront the
promotion Of the game, and the most
serious is me gambling situation.
There has crept into the situation a
certain sympathy between players and
professional gamblers. This evil, in
my opinion, must ne crushed and
crushed nstanter. For all players who
insist on mirglirg with professional
gamblers there can be but one tate
expulsion from. the ranksk; 'blacklist,'
If you will The game must be di-
vorced from everything that smacks
o. the gambling evil.
every baseball park must be guarded
against this latest evil that threatens
70 undermine the game. Those who
make q profession Of Offering or 81
eepting bets on results or any phase Of
games must be given the gate ard
must not be allowed 70 return. But
something far moro far-reaching must
be attempted.
Task Confronts Lands
at would be 8 grand thing Il it were
possible for the Federal and the va
rious state governments 10 pass law
making II a felony ier anybody to
wager or any phase OF baseball game.
No one is better qualified than Judge
Lands to direct this particular phase
Of the desired legislation"
policy OF "thumbs down will be
pursued in regard to those players Of
the White Sox or other clubs that have
been implicated in the gambling eX
pose These men are 50 be barred for
ever from the profession A Ike fate
viii await oil players who consort with
professional gamblers. And the mag
mates themselves viii have TO keep as
pure and undealed as the players. The
death kuell has been sounded against
syndicate baseball.
Il is planned 10 have introduced into
tte legislatures ot the various states,
as well as into Federal legislation,
Law OF most drastic effect against gam
bling on any phase Of baseball. The
law would strike st the club owner
quite as much as at the player and
would saddle OF both premium for
honesty and integrity.