Evening star., 1924-10-11
BASE BALL SPIRIT
|NVADES MEETING
Board of Trade Stops
Business When Lands,
Griffith, Harris Enter.

Sweeping up from the Avenue be-
low, the pandemonium of the carnival
of victory drifted into the meeting of
the Board of Trade on the 10th floor
of the Willard Hotel last night and
permeated 500 members with a rest
less spirit that rebelled against COM
mittee reports and broke loose into
wild acclamations upon the appear
ance in the ballroom of the czar of
base ball, Judge Landis; Clark Griffith
and the vice president of the local
ball club. w. n. Richardson. 1t ended
a short while later in a thunderous
and frenzied demonstration on the
part of Washington's leading business
and professional men, who went wild
when the hero Of the day, "Bucky"
Harris, appeared on the scene
George G. Shinn had started reading
a report in voice hoarse with the
result of his roofing in the ball park.
In came Judge Lands amid deafen-
ing cheers. Mr.. Shinn started in
again, but the victory spirit had
reached to top floor of the willard
and the business and professional |
men of the home town of the world
champions threw the meeting to the
winds and started their own ceIe-
bration. Mr.. Shinn was saying some
thing that sounded like Borland law,
gasoline tax law, must-new streets
Commissioners No
one heard, no one cared.
Talk by Landis.
Amid cheers Judge Landis arose to
talk. He turned to the cheering
meeting and said. 1T is no child's
play to go and bring home the bacon
from flank that is SO coveted.
= Il want to say to every man of
your team L give by earnest con-
gratulations and to every membe
of the vanquished team the same"
he continued. Il have been watch
ing base ball for nearly fifty years
and I'll say this much to you, if I
have what l expect to have, another
fifty years, in the very nature Of
things, there will never be another
world series where throughout seven
games the high spirit of sportsman
ship will excel this series.
Evenly Matched Teams.
II have never seen two more evenly
matched teams. During the series
there were at least a dozen times when
the difference between the two could
have been measured by the weight
of a hair. And remember that the
world series was not won until the
end of the twelfth inning of the sew
enth game"
With his characteristic smile and
pose, Judge lands said, Well / sup
pose it is permitted even the base
ball commissioner to feel good that
IL Washington had to win Walter
Johnson was in the" here ii end
ed with a shout that shook the entire
block.
After the crowd had Gained Clark
Griffith. who is member of the
board, spoke. 1T is useless to say
that this is the happiest moment of
my life" he declared. This is the
vindication of my judgment. 1 have
always had faith in Bucky Harris
since the first time l saw him. When
] saw him playing a double header in
Buffalo he was a fighter and hustler.
Real Men Here.
Another vindication is that I am
the only fellow in the world who
was certain that Washington was
a base ball town. For II years its
been a long. long trail. kept work
ing. I recall the days of some pan
ming, but many friends have given me
their loyal support, including the
Board Of Trade. the Chamber of Com
merce and other organizations. There
are some real men in this town that
want to see a man succeed if he is
right.
day is very serious, some people
think. l want to say as a man who
has been in base ball for 81 years
that the game on the whole is on
the level. We meet a bad one once
in a while. they come in every walk
of life. ! have confidence Judge