The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-04
Presidents Of Leagues And . Commissioner LandiS IS-
 sue Orders That All Teams
 Be Idle In Mourning
(RN Stnff CorrespOndenD

MEMPHIS. Tenn. August 3.-(Spe- cial) )-All the world is waiting for ,.ttIe sunrise in this it's hour of dark | est grief. With bowedi and barred | heads, the pastimers have joined the | i T1lrongS that mourn at the shrine Of a lost leader, and the sturdy sons l respect to the great father of Amer ica who sleeps the long sleep from | which no man awakens. They mourn alike. The Catholic and the Protestant. the republican and the democrat, the northerner and the southerner, all have placed their offering of sorrow on the pyre of the sleeping President. There Is -r no place for baseball today in the grief stricken hearts of American o, reopie All the games scheduled for today are hereby called off. in re- .spect 10 the memory of our dead cbfeftaih Tn those simple but ex- rressive words. John D. Martin, pres ident of the Southern Ieag agule, called off Fridays games in the Southern league. in respect for President liar ding who joined his fathers in sud den death Thursday night.
 Dixie Joins TSrong.
 Thus Dixir, too. has joined the throng that grieves for the dead s saeader. Up east the little white- sacked Judge ,Landis took similar action to that of John Martin. and i fgAm in the American and National < leagues were called off.
 The entire baseball world was stilled today as it paid it's homage '"to President Harding. himself an Baseball feels as if has lost true friend ard champion in time of need, and could do no less than show It's sorrow at his departure by still- ing the wheels of the great machlne for a day.
 Saturday the pastimers resume their battling, with the Barons .- scheduled to close out thelr present series in Memphis. The game will a he called early, at 2:30 o'clock, to allow the Chicks to eaten an carry train to Mobile, and the Barons an other tc Chattanooga.
 King Brady, husky right-hander, secured from Atlanta in a trade for Phil Mor rison, will twirl the clos Ing game against the Chicks, and Manager Stewart is hopeful that his 4r1ght- -hander can have more iuck against the tribe than his two left Sthsnders, Stewart and Whtehill did. fhe Chicks have proven partlal to .outhpaw hurling this season. anu for that reason have won two stratght games from the Barons. After the final game at Memphis to- morrow, the Barons close out their ,Mteaded road trip with a snort se- ,ies at Chattanooga, then return home for stay that will keep them
 lockwood the remainder of Au- ,ust. MEMPHIS, Tern, August 3.-John
 Martin. president of the Southern ,;sociation baseball clubs. announced his morning that all games sched- sled for this fternoon had been Mncelled because of the death of resident Harding. .'rhere is no place for baseball to- iay in the grief -strlken heart of he American people" Mr. Martin | said in an announcement cancelling | games planned for this afternoon | All games scheduled for today are | hereby called ofs in respect 10 the l memory of our dead chieftain."
 CHICAGO. August 3-Baseball | Commissioner Kennesaw M. Lands today issued the following state ment: Tt is the sentiment throughout baseball that no games be played | sither today or on the day Of the funeral of the late President. And as A further mark of respect to hls memory flags At ali ball parks will be displayed at half mast until aft CT the burial" CHICAGO, August 3.-(By Asso- ciated Press) ).-All games scheduled for today in the American league were cancelled by B, E. Johnson. president of the league because of .the death of President Harding. Notice of the cancellation was wired ito the presidents of the four eastern s1lubs on whose grounds games were to be played President Johnson of the Anne erican league, took action immediately on being notified of the death }of the president. MT Harding was an ar dent baseball fan and was much in terested in the Washington club of
 
 grounds St. Louis had been sched- uled to play today. Other games had been scheduled for New York, Philadelphia and Boston.
 On account of the death of Presi- dent Harding all gaines in the American league for today have been called off" said the announcement from Mir Johnson's' secretary.
 ,,SuIpIeH luepIsaId u7oq ppq 1T custom when during his residence in Washington to attend the first base ball game of the season when per mitted by affairs of state. His in- terest in baseball as a red-blooded American pastinie was illustrated by one of his last remarks shortly be- fore his death, it was reported when he was said to have shown his in terest in the Cincinnati National league club: How did the Reds come out today
 
 dent John NJ. Heydler of the Ma tional baseball ieague. today ordered all players in tho league to wear a mark of mourning on the arm until after the funeral of President Harding. He also ordered the sus- pension of play on the day of the burial of the late President
 CINCINN ATT, Ohio. August g. The New York Cincinnati game post roned today vii be plaYeu on next Monday A doTbie-header will be staged.
 s~ ST LOUIS. Mo, August 3-The Boston-St, Louis National league game scheduled for this afternoon, was postponed because of President HarcIng's death A double header nill be played tomorrow.
 CHICAGO. August 3.-The Chica- i;uso- Bi ooklyn National game was
 stponed today because of Presl- dent Hai dins's death.
 lITSBCHGH, Ia, August 3-Phii- adeiphia- Pittsburgh game postponed, rain. Two games tomorrow.
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