Evening journal., 1920-11-17
Lands Is A Regular FeHa!
When Baseball Got All BdIed Up They Called Chicago
Judge to DO the Moses Act at $4,000 Per Year
ny DEAN SNYDER.


NCHICAGO, NOV. i7.-Why did they
psok on Kenesaw Mountain Lands,
the Chrcsgo Judge, TO b. the Moses OF
our baseball.
That's a whale sized question But
the answer sums itself UP Ike a lump
OF sugar.
The whole American public has
faith in Judge Lsndis.
Those are big words. No higher
tribut. was ever pad 10 any one in
dividual. Even a president or a king
m ght well envy the Chicago jur'st
sllch a bouquet expressed IN our Eng
hsh vocabulary.
Applies Horse Sense.
His program since 1905 has been 70
apply horse-senss TO human troubles 3.
And that's an under The sun hat
baseball needs r'chi nav.
Spend ne noon hour with .h<
judg would convince anyone Of his
bigness OF vision. his intgres. iu
humans. and his love for baseball
The game which has focused the
llmelght upon him by giving him
dinky $500 he now receives.
As soon as baseball Is mentioned
Judge lands immediately becomes
your friend
Likes TO Fan.
YOU baseball men have been very
kind 10 me-" he said. want TO talk
about it, do your Let's take a yak,
then
The wind was whipping up Michi-
gan avenue at about the same rate OF
speed which Walter Johnson used
when he was feeling good. The raw
OF winter was in IT, too.
The judge pulled his hat down oyer
his eyes, turned up his coat collar.
enatched up his knoited cane and
ppeas on at Weston stride
bGame's Fascinating.
"I'm not much Of winter
Beaguer." he said The part OF the
kxame that fascinaies me is the one
khey play on the diamond.
" can't think OF anything moro
Ersgic than the Gripping OF baseball.
can your don't know how TO ac-
tcount for the blgness OF baseball
. But I do know that you'll find men
land boys arguing over the batting av-
reraees OF the stars even In remote
settlements far back from the rail-
roads hundreds OF miles away from
where The game is actually played
Basrbalrs Scope.
thousands OF folks never have
seen a big league same. Thousands
OF them never viii, perhaps. They've
never been closer TO Babe Ruth, Iris
Speaker and Ty Cobb than the printed
newspaper page. But they can tell
You exactly how they hold their bats
or how they comb their hair.
why do people go 10 see Babe
Ruth hit home runsg Gosh. that's
ahc answer. They do, don't they?
He's Met Spoke.
i've met Iris Speaker. Wen, that
IS. | shook hands with him during
tie world series. Sunny how a ian
rkes 70 imagine he's intimate with
the stars, isn't il2
Wouldn't 1t be awful II they
should abolish the world series?
haven't missed but one In the last
eleven years. ! can think OF no
greater tragedy than the crippllng OF
Baseball 1t means Just that much 20
pe American people.
Used 10 Play.
mid l over play baseball? I'll say
did Right here along Michigan
Wvsnue. We fellows used 10 get out
trerc at the noon hour along the water
Dront. ! guess that was about ~
years ago"
During the hot-foot walk up and
Gown Michigan avenue The Judge
spoke TO scores OF friends He poked
Eflivcring irafflc cops in the back with
his heavy cane and "hclloed" them.
H6 stopped in at an art shop 30 adj
mtre etchinrs Of Lincoln and Roose-
@elt He particularly liked the draw
inRs or Lincoln.
Admires Lincoln.
,"The artist didn't make the mis-
kakc OF rubbing out a lot OF Ines as
most Of them do. See that wart on
honest old Abe,.s face. couldn't
Back a. the court chamber in the
posiofflce building, Judge Lands was
'brimming over with pep and fire. He
eia box lunch between telephone
balis.
n walk 1--WE miles every day" he
said You'd be surprised what a
brisk walk viii do for a fellow. Fills
your lungs fun OF fresh air and clears
ne fog out Of your mind
Game Needs Him.
At > O'Clock the judge was back in
tle court room at his business OF ap-
plying some more horse sense 10
That's what ihey wan. to do FOR
Das ball.
And the horsehide sport can stand
a lot OF horse sense. The game has
outcrOwn the business instincts OF
fffe Ban JohnsOns and the John Heyd-
lers. And lhese men are wise enough
D. sec it
1udge Kenesaw Mountain Lands is
bhe doctor and on TOP Of that he's a
regular fellow.
n you've any doubt in your mind
as TO that Just drop in az his human
workshop and spend noon houi
with him Hen probably take YOU
Cor walk. and convince yon, too.