The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-06
RUTH MAY PLAY WITH TANKS IN
 WORKOUTS
JUDGE LANDS MAY ALLOW RUTH, MEUSEL AND PERCY TO GO ON
 SPRING TRAINING TRIP AND APPEAR IN EXHIBITION GAMES

I NEW YORK, Jan. 7.- Before Judge Landis issues the official or der barring Babe" Ruth, Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy from participating in championship games with the Yan- kees until after May 20, he probably will modify it to permit the Three Musketeers" to accompany the team on the Spring training trip and to ] take part in exhibition games before ! the regular season opens.
 i An arrangement of this sort will greatly relieve the present situation, which is causing some embarrass- ment. While the owners of the New York club assure Landis of their SUD- port in this case they are facing a heavy loss, which may be greatly lessened if the judge will consent to Spring armistice
 Even then the players would lose their worlds series money and more than five weeks salary, amount to few thousand more, but the club would have them trained and ready to go as soon as the suspensions are lifted. Such a compromise is no more than fair to the club owners, though there is little comfort in it for the real transgressors
 Judge Landis is not altogether familiar with conditions governing the control of major league players on training trips. When he imposed his sentence on Ruth he probably estimated the total damage as a loss of pay from April 12 to May 20, plus the worlds series money It is be- lieved that he will tone down the official order by permitting the play CTS to condition themselves in the Spring at the New York clubs ex- pense, but without any salary re- turns
 Once the Yankee colonels can con- vince the judge that a Spring train ing loophole in the Ruthe verdict will satisfy them, their task will be to persuade the three players not to take an legal steps toward recover ing their worlds series money which amounts to more than S1O,000 and is now held in escrow by the National | Commission
 | Ruth, with a big salary dangled in front of him and other inducements pointed out, may consent to drop his claim to the worlds series prize This money could be made up to him in other ways. But Piercy who doesn't expect to be with the Yan- kees this year anyhow, and Meusel, whose income does not begin to ap- proximate Ruths, probably will not yield so easily. Meusel has already declared himself. Regardless of his future in baseball he will go into the courts to collect money. he has already earned.
 l There isn't much doubt that the three players can force the Commits sion to hand over the series cash but such action would end their careers in organized baseball
 There are many perplexing angles to the Ruth decision For instance, suppose Judge Landis decides the players can play ball on a training trip. Will he confine their ball play ing to mere scrub games or will he permit these men to participate in exhibition games where admission is charged and the Yankees meet major league opposition?
 The Tanks, after deducting heavy expenses, cleared about $3O,0OO on their training trip last year. With out Ruth as an attraction they could easily lost that much A decision keeping Babe out of the Spring ex- hibition games will start the club off with loss of $5O,OOO before the pennant race begins.