, 1922-11-06
JUDGE KNOWS
HOW Jumps GETIT
Lands Spectacular Play in
Second Game of Series Ill
Advised, Says Sanborn.
By /. E. sANBoRN.

Af.er his narrowing experience
with that bowling mob OF Gotham
baseball fans at the conclusion of III
tie game in the late world series.
Commissioner lands knows just how
ap umpire feels when he becomes the
target for the jeers Of a crowd of
Irooters.
Although wholly blameiess for call
ing the game on account of darkness
in the tenth inning. the high com
missioner IA powerles before the mob
Of malcontents, who though the bat
tie ought TO have been fought TO n
finish and Immediately jumped to the
conclusion the commissioner was in
cahoots with tho club owners to ex-
tend the series another game and c
an additional harvest of coin.
II didn't mean anything to hat
jeering multitude that the club owners
had voted between seasons to short
en- the worlds series from five games
out or a possible min to four games
out of n possible seven. II coin col
|lecting was the sole purpose OF the
fall derby the magnates would have
retained the longer warld's series. or
would have increased its length in
stead of voluntarily shortening il.
But the baseball fan. when he gets
mad. can't look backward or forward
Of the then present m Every.
thing else is wiped out OF mind by his
rage.
New Experience for Lands.
1t WINS a new experience for Lands
and It is a safe bet that in that long
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he wished a thousand times he was
back in his old courtroom in the fed
eral building at Chicago with the
power to sentence every n of those
jeering bugs to Leavenworth for life
for contempt of court. But he had no
gavel with which to compel silence
and there was no bafliff at command
TO clear the court and arrest the Of
tenders. There was nothing to do but
endure the unjust aunts OF an ignor-
ant and suspicious ang whose chief
thought was the bets It might have
cashed IL the game had been played TO
a finish.
Instead Of enduring 1t in dig entitled
silence and in the confidence that the
rowdies would have been ashamed OF
themselves when they learned that
they were bounding an innocent par
ty, the high commissioner threw a
sop to the public by handing over all
the receipts of that game TO char
ity., This was a sort of admission that
the fans were right in their kick
against the act OF the umpires in stop
ping the game, and the nearest pos
sible thing to giving h patrons back
their money.
Grand Stand Play by Lands.
1t was a grand stand play as un-
necessary as 1t was i'll advised, for the
fans would have forgotten the incident
almost as soon as their anger cooled
off, n II is impossible to make the
other kind of patron believe baseball
is on the level anyway Moreover 1t
establishes a precedent that may prove
very costly. In the future, rooters
will hoIler to get their none back,
instead of letting it go to charity.
If another tie game is played In a
worlds series.
Landis' spectacular attempt to re
store himself to the favor of the FAM
was expensive in itself. for a little
matter Of more than 100000 isn't to
be scorned even by baseball folks. In
round numbers. -s12 600 of the commits
sioner's donation to charity came out
Of the fund TO pay his own salary. but
he won't have to worry about that
II the councils share OF the worlds
series does not pay the cost of con
Quoting the commissioners office. the
leagues are assessed to make UP the
deficit.
Take. Money from Players.
: Nearly $65 600 of the sum donated