Newark post., 1922-07-05
ON THE SPORT FIELD
SPORTITORIAL

lS.l
the head of organized baseball, gave
warning to major league ball play |
ers last week, that it might be well
for every athlete and every person in
the world to pay heed to.
The Judge is now making a tour of
the Eastern cities where big league
ball clubs are located and he is max
ing this tour with the express pur-
pose in mind of warning ball players
of their conduct on and off the base
ball field.
The following are some of the
points that the head of baseball ad-
monished the players on:
1. They must not enter speakeasies
or buy hootch from bootleggers and
hold rum parties in their rooms.
2. They must not shoot crap or
gamble at any time, at home, on Pull
mans or in hotel rooms.
8. They must not make wagers on
horse races.
Besides these points he said that the
players must give their best services
at all times. They must keep in the
best playing condition and play their
hardest to win, regardless of sala-
ries.
The writer is not a "blues" dis
penser nor is he a worker for or
against prohibition, but he believes
that if every athlete of the country
would heed the warning of Judge
Lands things in the sporting world
and the world at large would be in
a much better condition.
That the Judge will have his hands
full to carry out his points is not at
all doubtful. For gambling among
. ball players, especially when a team
is away from home and travelling by
rail has been a pastime in which a
number of them have taken as much
part as the national game itself.
But the Judge gave the warnings
just the same as he warned ball play
ers not to go on transforming trips
after the last baseball season. Babe
, Ruth, the biggest figure in baseball,
+ evidently thought that he was too big
for the Judge to handle, but the
, Judge showed him different and the
Bimbo was given long suspension
as result of his violation.
The Judge in his warning to the
players says there is not a player ir
either of the big leagues big enough
to expect special consideration anC
S that all will be treated alike.
1t sounds good, and could only the
players in the world of business
@ sport and pleasure take heed to these
= warnings there is no doubt that there
t would be less worries, less crimes ant
a less everything that goes to make thu
n world hard place to live in at times
No better example of the result o
clean wholesome living can be pointed
out than the recent boxing match be
tween Benny Leonard and Jack Brit
!. ton The latter is thirty-eight year
U old and despite this he had the bes
1 of his younger opponent until tn
U bout ended, when the referee claime'
y that Leonard had fouled.
y For many years the impression ha
v been with a certain class Of people
y that fighter of the present time i
:, one who hits the high spots and trav
els only where the bright lights shine
But a study of the present day cham
3. pions puts the skids under this ide
0 and no better example of it could b
9 shown than the Britton case.
Here is man thirty-eight year
l old. who enters the ring with one c
0 the best lightweight champions ths
0 the country has ever known. An
Q what does he show, every sport write
0 who was there at the ringside, sal
0 that he looked as good against Leoi
0 ard as he ever did and that is sayin
- lot, for old Jack has put up SON
2 wonderful fights and defeated the be-
g there is in he welterweight ranks IL
4 several years.
Britton claims that he is able
stand the pace, due to the fact that
lives a clean life and that the brigl
lights are the least of his worrie
The person who studies nature is su
;. that Jack must be telling the tru
- 49, for how could he go into the rir
- - and make the showing that he d
q, s against Leonard unless he did Ii