The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-10-22
Lands Knows
How. 1t Feels
to Be (Razzed)
Gotham Mob Had No Respect
for Commissioner, Who
Probably Wishes lie Was
Back on Federal Bench.
by I. II. SANBORN.


mat bowling mob OF Gotham baseball
rams at the conclusion Of the tie game
In the late worlds series, Commits.
sloner lands knows Just how an um.
plre feels when he becomes tho tarRet
for the Jeers or n crowd Of rooters.
Although wholly blameleas for call,
Ing the game on account Of darkness
In the 10th inning, the high commits.
sloner was powcrless before the mob
OF mnleontcnts, who thought the bat.
tic ought 10 have been fought TO n
finish and Immediately jumped to the
conclusion the commissioner was IN
cahoots with the club owners to ex.
tend the series another game and reap
an additional harvest of coin.
II didn't mean anything 10 that
ieerlng multitude that the club own
ers had voted between seasons TO
shorten the worlds series from five
games out Of a possible nine to four
games out Of possible seven. II coin
collecting was the sole purpose OF the
fall derby tho magnatcs would have
retained tho longer worlds series, or
would have Increased its length in.
stead Of voluntarily shortening II. But
the baseball fan, when he gets mad,
can't look backward or forward OF the
then present moment. Everything
else IL wiped out of mind by his rage
New Experience for Lands.
II was n new experience for Lands
n.a Ia, Lat hat tn, "a tapD
walk across the Polo grounds arena
he wished 900 times he was back in
his old courtroom In the federal build
ing at Chicago with the power to
sentence every one of those Jeering
bugs to Leavenworth for life for con
tempt of court. But he had no gavel
with which TO compel silence and
there was no baillff at command to
clear the court and arrest the offend
ers There was nothing to do but en-.
dure the unjust taunts OF an ignorant
and suspicious gang whose chief
thought was the bets II might have
cashed II the game had been played
to finish.
Instead OF enduring 1t In dignitied
silence and In the confidence that the
iowdies would be ashamed Of them
selves when they learned that they
were bounding an innocent party, the
high commissioner threw a sop 10 the
public by handing over all the receipts
Of that game to charity, This was a
sort Of admission that the fans We're
right in their kick against the act Of
the umpres in stopping the game, and
the nearest possible thing to giving
the patrons their money back
Grand Stand Play by Lands.
II was a grand stand play as I'M
necessary as il was i'll advised, for the
fans would have forgotten the Incl
dent almost as soon as their anger
cooled OF, and ii Is impossible to
make the other kind Of patron believe
baseball Is on the level anyway More
over, II establishes "A precedent that
may prove very costly In future the
tootess viii boiler 90 get their money
hack, Instead II letting It go to chart
Is, II smother tie Fame Is played in a
worlds series,
Lands spectacular attempt to re.
store himself Ia the favor II the fans
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matter u more than slse,eeo isn't %
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