The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-21
TALKING
IT OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS

WITH JOE WILLIAMS 81
ANEW YORK, March 21.-While
IN Judge Kenesaw Mountain
La..dis didn't admit it, his indict-
ment against the three major
league clubs-Pittsburg, Washing
ton and Cleveland-for covering
M" ball players, was that they did
not cover them up ingeniously
enough.
IT is hardly conceivable that the
Judge has just now found out
about it, although judicial
training is not always conducive
to great speed in important
crusades.
AM INCLINED TO BELIEVE THE
JUDGE HAS BEEN ON FAMILIAR TERMS
WITH THE SITUATION ALL ALONG, BUT
THAT AS LONG AS TIE CLUB OWNERS
CONDUCTED THEIR PLAY-BOOTLEG-
GING ACTIVITIES WITH A SEMBLANCE
OF LEGALITY AND FINESSE, HE WAS
CONTENT TO REMAIN ON THE GOLF
COURSE BREATHING ANATHEMAS ON
THE FIRST SCOTTISH SHEPERD. WHO
HoLED OUT WITH A ROCK, THEREBY
GIVING LIFE TO THE GREAT INTER-
NATIONAL CURSE.
DUT some of the gentlemen began
ID taking liberties of q rather
loose nature with the fine tolerance
of the Judge and he was forced to
threw his machie niblick into lake
and get out his police whistle.
II II
1t appears that Clark Griffith OF
the Washington club was particu-
larry raw in carrying on Illegal
tra6c with his southern cOnfede-
rates, the bald, Open-face frank
ness of his. activities suggesting
those of the better class beer ba-
r0ns who ride to the rocks with
police escort.
STILL I RECALL AN INCIDENT CON-
CERNING SAM GRAY. THE PITCHER,
WHICH INDICATES THAT THIS REC
IGNITION is SOMETIMES DEFERRED.
Try iudicious exercise of the cover
ID up" a player can be kept in
the minors until he's old enough
to use a wheel chair on the coach
ing line.
Some If them have, but there
is no record of any Ruths or
Cobbs or Lindstroms ever being
subjected to such tyrannical i'm
prisonment in the bushes. In one
way or another the potential big
Lacquer ultimately becomes an &C
tual big Lacquer.
you SEE 1 DON'T BELONG TO THIS
CLUB. 1 BELONG TO DETROIT. AND
NEXT YEAR I'M GOING TO BE WITH
FIT. WORTH"
~RAY had come to the Cleveland
" club from one of those flag
stations in the Texas Oklahoma
League, where he had won twenty
three games and lost four. ap-
preached him intent upon enticlng
from him such vital information as
is conveniently deemed essential to
a complete character sketch OF a
great man.
II r.
l wanted to know how old he
was, if he liked America, and
what comic supplements he pre-
fer-ed. / was making fine prog
ress when Gray suddenly stopped
me.
"say, are you writing this for
Cleveland or DetrOit?" He was
disappointed to learn the epic was
not to appear in Detroit publ
cation.
THE JUDGES INDICTMENT WAS
BASED ON AN IDEALIsTIC THEORY
WHICH PERSISTS IN BASEBALL LARGE
LIZ fOfL CONN 5tNEoA 1lOINfA1 @ho1-Ho-
THAT NOTHING SHALL BE DONE TO
IMPEDE THE ARTISTIC PROGRESS OF
ONE OF THE HIRED HANDS.
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TIME answer was that Mr.. Gray
L was being covered up in a big
way and somehow or other he knew
it. IN fact, practically everybody
kaew it that spring except the
.tuoge.
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BY way of illustrating the cir
cuitous course the "cover up"
takes at times, Gray's ultimate
landing spot in the big leagues
was neither Detroit nor Cleveland.
1t was with Philadelphia, where,
incidentally. he promptly dis
played a convincing technique.