The Washington times., 1923-12-01


serve IN an administrative capacity,
For that purpose certain rules were
drawn up, They provided that
settle disputes between the major
leagues, between the majors and
minors and between the big leagues
and their players.
Evidently through an oversight
no mention. was made Of 3 dis
pute between . league and an
umpire. Umpires are under con-
tract the same. as players. Sup
pose an umpire and his league
have q decided difference Of
opinion over the terms Of 3 con-
tract. Their only resort is to 20
into the civil courts. That, be.
neve. IS something baseball wants
p avert. That's why they brought
On outsider into their game to
settle their disputes. The only
reason made the succession
about unnpires Is to have Our
rules cover any possible DISPUTE
within the baseball organization.
Every one of the suggestions I
have made to the club owners of
the two majors has been the result
Of some individual experience Of &
club owner. They have made the
suggestions to me; i serve as e
clearing house for all baseball such
as consider helpful to the game,
| have submitted in the form of
suggestions. =
Landis apparently favors q new
distribution Of the world series
spells whereby some of the burden
q the expense Of the series is lifted
nom the shoulders of the clubs
staging the series. but he said that
fight out
It does seem rather unfair for
the clubs winning the championshfps
70 lace possible loss by winning
their championship, continued The
Judge. After the players take
~ per cent Of the first four games
and the Commissioner takes Is Ter
cent the clubs holding the series
are obliged to share half of what
Is left with their respective leagues.
As the clubs carry the entire
burden OF the expense Of the series,
which now runs into thousands. It
isn't difficult to see that there isn't
much left.
The two New York clubs had =
hard time breaking even in 1922,
and the late Jim Dunn told me he
lost money in the worlds series Of
1929. It doesn't seem right that q
club should be shouldered with q
liability for its enterprise in win
ming the pennant. The proposition
suggested is that after the players
set so per cent and the Commits.
sioner 10 per cent, the expenses Of
the series shall be taken out before
the clubs divide their portion of the
receipts with their respective
leagues. That seems fair to me,
but it is up to the clubs. It Is IN
10 them to fight It cut, and they
may decide to keep on dividing It
IN the old way" b
Lands wants the rule covering
tampering with players strength
ened, because experience has de-
nianded it. Most Of the efforts to
make suggestions to players Of
other clubs have been directed to
players under suspension or prob
ably on the ineligible or voluntary
: retired list.
The Judge knows Of no war with
Ban Johnson or any one else. He
isn't going to do any mud singing,
because somebody else does 1t, un.
less the mud begins to spatter him.
Then he Is going to wheel into
action. At present he IL inclined
to laugh over the present situation
In Chicago. He says baseball has
some mighty funny angles, and un-
less a person has sense OF humor
he L. lost.
"I see some folks are trying to
make something out of the fact that
called the joint meeting OF the
major leagues in Chicago on a Wed
nesday, December 10. I was I'm.
fortunate in not knowing that there
was a fixed clause in the American
League constitution calling It's
meeting on that day.
my idea in calling this meeting
for Wednesday was that that
seemed the most practicable time
TO hold the meeting. The individual
minor leagues will meet on Monday,
and / thought the majors would meet
on Tuesday. believing they would
want to talk things over among
themselves before the joint meeting
On Wednesday. Then on Thursday
/ thought, the majors and minors
might want to have session to-
gether. I thought it would be un-
wise TO have that meeting put off
until Friday, for by that time every
one would De tired or meetings and
anxious to get back home for the
weekend"
Lands admitted that he had
beard that the American League
might not attend his joint meet.
ing. Ban Johnson Is reported to
have said he saw no need for lt
anyway.
However, the commissioner merely
smiled and said both leagues would
be here. A year ago there also wat
some talk that the American League
would walk out on lands john
meeting, but Ban Johnson and al
his elan attended.
The judge was asked what hi