The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-29
GAME MUST BE
RID OF GAMBLING
Judge lands Sees Baseball
Men Here and Returns
to Chicago.
COMING BACK SHORTLY
Army-Navy Contest Up to
Standard of Best Foot
ball-GOssip.
COMING BACK SHORTLY
nx WILLIAM d. HANNA.

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i Judge X. M. Lands, new one man
commissioner OF baseball. returned to
Chicago yesterday after attending the
Army Navy football game as the guest
Of the New York National League club.
Judge Lands found time at the game
to. talk informally with Col. Rupert of
the Yankees, George Grant of the Bos-
ton Braves, Judge McQuade of the
Giants and Charles Ebbets of Brooklyn.
He win be back in New York on De-
cember Is, when the National and
American leagues are to have Joint
meeting and go ahead with the work Of
reconstruction.
Judge Lands. in whom club owners
and fans have great faith to keep the
national game clean and on a high
plane. pleads for indulgence to the ex-
tent that-as he put 1t yesterday-he is
not gifted with superman intelligence
and has TO profound or deeply mys-
FERROUS schemes for dealing with the
problems of the national game He
didn't want TO be known as a dictator
or a savior. IT am seeking" he said.
ito find out what is the best thing to
be done and want the help of every
body with the best interests of the game
at heart"
There was no mistaking the earnest
ness in Judge Landiss voice when he
referred to what he declared he thought
the most important matter in the well
fare of baseball, the complete divorcing
from it of the professional gambling ele-
ment. This was the influence, he said,
which led to crookedness.
with that in view" he continued,
rthe cooperation of the baseball and
civil authorities could accomplish much.
To show how essential it is to get rid
NJ tba ga 1h1iVcr INV
snce and observation as a lawyer and
Judge have been that there is no crime
k1tn Cement won't commit for some
sneEs I don't mean all professional
tnx 59ers are of that Sind-some of
kszA ars pretty decent fellowship
E44& such is the spirit of professional
sfs nsiing .
p p<Dvent wrongdoing in baseball they
raA be had through either State or Fed
eral statutes 1 don't believe there would
be any difficulty in having such legisla-
lion introduced in Washington, for de-
gent people are too fond Of the game not
to do what they can for its good.
FOLLOWING the exposure before the
Chicago Gran@ Jury Is an unfortunate
condition. ana. I think, one highly i'm
portant for baseball men 10 ponder.
That is the betting which goes on in the
stands between friends, not among the
gambling fraternity crowd For in
stance, two friends make dallor, five
dollar or ten dollar bet on a game
Somebody sees the money pass when the
bet Is paid. He recalls then that in a
certain inning some player made a
N.lner or struck out at a critical time.
"'uh-huh = says this fan to himself !;
80 1t s Sat way, chr Then his sus-
lcfons grow, he having in mind what
appened at the worlds series of 1919.
TO eliminate this sort Of thing, and
Ehink 1t is highly important it be elimi-
mated, have great faith in the loyalty
~ the fan for one thing and such other
Influences as can be devised The point
,or emphasis is that to help the game
We must get rid not only Of evil but
OF the appearance of evil"
Judge lands said he had no plans as
yet for the new national agreement TO
be worked out this winter, but there
will be an airing Of concrete ideas when
he and the club owners meet here next
month. He did not know, he said
whether the crooked ball players and
others connected with the White Sox
scandal could be brought to book by
law, but did say the indictments would
be pushed TO the full resources of the
authorities in charge Of the matter.
There would be no halfway measures
IN that direction.
"But," he added "the fate of baseball
is not dependent on points Of law. 1t
must be made clean and kept clean"
The Chicago jurist was asked what
effect the scandal would have on 1920
patronage Problematical. he replied,
Just speculation. 81 thought at the be-
ginning OF 1920 that the attendance
wouldn't be up TO normal, but IT turned
out to be the best we ever had"
Judge lands was asked II he vas in
ferested in the statements OF Ban john
lson in Chicago suggesting that the YAM
KEGS might have been allowed 70 buy
Ruth from the Red Sox because %
mortgage Of $500, 900 given on the lat
ter's plant to the Yankee owners aiso
wondering whether that could be con-
strued as syndicate baseball
81 hadn't heard anything about that"
was the answer, land cannot say any
thing about It."
Judge Lands accepted al invitation
10 be present next spring ~ tho 70
Grounds when a memorial to Capt Ed
ward L. Grant, the New York third
bnsenan who was killed in the A;gonno,
Is dedicated.
The Army-Navy football game Of
Saturday was grade Al and intensely
interesting football Don't get the idea
into your netu llhi IL was lliAfi ibi W.
below the standard Of the best football
anywhere. It is a BIT of n pose 60 thus
regard Army-Navy games. but with no
reason whatsoever either last year or
this. The Army-Navy game OF 1920
!. mad the best OF tacklng. In other big
contests the TICKLING by one side or the
other may have been Just as consistently
good, but not by both sides. There was
hardly tumble there was the hardest
OF fiehting. and the Nays offence in
the fourth period was the most fiery
ana the best sustained squirt Of any big
gnme in this section this year slash
Ing night. this Army-Navy game. IL
had top quality and II was of breath
less interest every instant What moro
does anybody want2
Extra Another baseball player mas
ters golf At least Harry Moose Nc
Cormiclx. former Giant and peer OF All
pinch hitters. drove from tho tee with
mashie at Buck Hi Falls Pa. tho
other day and travelled 25G yards,
twenty yards beyond the green
Just few OF the notablcs. foot~aIf
and otherwise seen along tho side lines
ut tho Army-Navy game Bill Edwards
Carl Flanders David Fultz Tack Hard
w~rk. Reggie Brown, Johnny Mack Tad