The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-29
nhukers Smother Soones Under 80 to Score in Annual Game
Power to Punish
Badly Needed in
Sports Caring
Commissioner Lands Finding
Sporting World Full of
BoIshcyisls - Griffith
Also Has Troubles.
By Hugh FULLERTON.

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Tho earring business In sport Is not
working out the why We had hoped
/ Il would Supreme exalted Kings and
ears sound Zine, bur they are dlscoy'
erlng that the sporting world IL Pull
OF bulshoyists. all with bombs ready
/ to light.
I Perhaps II Commissioner Lands
/ retained power 10 punish for con.
tempt hc could handle the baseball
: tualion better, but there IL evidence
81 subtle and widespread propaganda
against the commissioner, which ig
feXtcnding.
The reason for the nndnrinnded nt.
iacka upon tho commissioner and the
Ipreaent regime IN baseball IL not clear,
although the general source Is UNDER
lstood. Almost all the old Ban john
son element IA baseball III In the
movement against Judge Lands, and
/ In addition 10 that faction there tx
an unrnly element among the Players.
who lose no opportunity TO attack him
and his policies ...
had Kinks Not Strengthened.
Commissioner Lands has not euc-
cccded thus far IN STRENGTHENING out
ial the bad kinks IN baseball. In my
I Judgment he has done mere and dono
better than any other person has or
perhaps could do. | think he slipped
bit on the job by not maintaining u
CLOSER surveillance Of certain players
during the late season and the post
season series. This, however, Is more
the duty Of club owners than OF the
commissioner. If he thought he had
the rawdy and unruly element sub
duod he made n big mistake.
Perhaps the best way 10 Judge Com
missioner Landis' work In his short
administration Ia TO figure what the
old national commission would have
done had " been In power. one club
owner. whose club has ben nbout aa
severely punished az any under the
/ Lnndis administration. stated openly
last summer that II the old commif
sipn had been IN power, baseball
would have been IN ruins.
There was a determined effort on the
part OF certain propagandlsts to place
the blame for calling the tie gnmc
during the world series upon Judge
| Lands, shoulders. Three New York
newspapers intimated. and continue
to intimate that the blame belonged to
Landls. one Chicago writer openly
charged that Lands ordered the game
stopped at the end of the 10th inning.
Charges Against Lands Untrue
such charges are untrue. and the
writer's must know they are untrue.
| Lands. at the time Umpire Hide
brand called tho game, was standing
in his box, having just been intro
duced to Lord ana Lady Mountbatten.
and he had no intimation that the
game would be called until 1t was
called Had he wanted to call 1t, he
had no way Of reaching the umpires.
Half an inning before the game was
called IIughie Jennings stopped In
front of Il box occupied by owners and
friends lie then walked out to tho
third bose coaching line and spoke to
Umpire Eli Klein. Klein later walked
to IIildebrand and spoke to him.
Whether they mentioned calling the
game or not, ! do not know but there
was no other communication between
any Of the officials and Hidebrand.
and the umpires declare no one sug
eested ii excepting themselves and II
player who complained that the
stands were throwing heavy shadow
and made the bail difficult TO see.
Lands Makes Suggestion.
Commissioner Lands and the club
owners realized that u serious blunder
had been made and nj lands sugges.
ton the owners agreed To give the re-
ceipts To charity-which saved base.
bah "A tremendous blow.
Had the old National commission
been In charge, they would have fol.
lowed their established rule OF sup.
porting the umpres. no matter what
happened Johnson has held 10 this
theory ~ the umpire-rght or wrong.
all his career Iieydlcr was the only
one IN the Polo grounds mess VINO
declared that iIildebraud was right
and the game should have been called.
The persistent rropaganda against
Judge lands seems "a he enconrag.
mg the unruly PLAYERS The commits
slonrra tNss is only starting, and I'M
iess ire receives united support the
Job uf Keeping baseball clean viii be-