The Washington times., 1935-10-22

- pire his
part Of the
Kirk Miller w or | d
Series of Nineteen Thirty
. Five.
You will never hear any
more about the Cub-Mori-
arty squabble. If Lands
had anything for which to
fine or reprimand Moriarty,
, it would have been done
by now.
! Quick On Trigger
You will recall that a year
ago when Lands reviewed the
Klem-G -Goslin hotel lobby squab-
BILE, the fine was plastered on
KLEIN Immediately following the
Tiger Cardinal series.
Thus it is safe to assume that
Moriarty gets a clean bill Of
health out of the World Series,
insofar as the office Of the high
commissioner Of baseball Is
concerned.
The Moriarty incident Is a
parallel to the Walter john
son incident Of several months
previous.
Moriarty performed the duties
OF a thorough-going umpire in
the World Series and he got
the raZZberry from the Chicago
fans.
Walter johnson, who was
criticized more than any other
manager in baseball because he
was not a rigid diSciphnar1an
when it came to handling play
ers. suddenly started to handle
his recalcitrants as they should
have been handled. and he is
razzed right out Of Cleveland.
Bad Precedent
That the Cleveland owners
permitted the public to run
johnson out is a bad thing for
baseball.
It would have been equally
as bad had the Cub players
and Chicago fans been permit
ted to blackball George Mortar.
ty during the last World Series.
Baseball has it's rules and
regulations and high and low
courts and proper modes Of pro-
cedure, and none Of them has
anything to do with turning the
game over to the players or
public to let them do with as
they please.
Out in Cleveland the base
ball fans drove Walter johnson
hence.
It is only to be expected that
when they become dissatisfied
with Steve O'Neill. they will ex-
pect the same privilege.
President Alva Bradley is in
for a merry life if he is going to
let the Cleveland fans and Cleve-
land sports writers do the
thumbing into the saddle and
out again of his managers.
Win at Any Cost
And if the fans or players Of
any city are permitted to think
that they can "get" an umpire
by merely abusing and riding
him up to the point where he
must, in Difference to his office,
take drastic steps, where is the
game going to wind up and
what is to become of the mil.
lions Of dollars of investments
which 20 or 80 men have
wrapped up in baseball?
Finally, it has been my obser-
vations at both the 1884 and
1885 World Series that the Ma
tional Leaguers, the Cards and
the Cubs, made up their minds
they were going to win any way
they could.
In 1884 the Cards picked out
Brick Owens to ride and before
the series was over they had
Old Brick so dizzy he was max
ing decisions that you'd expect
to see on the Monument Lot-if
as good. One decision in partic-
ular, of owens. was expensive
to the Tigers and was inter-
preted by many as having lost
the series for them.
What baseball must do is pun
ish some of its tobacco-chewing.
chesty, ill@mannered, oath-sling-
ing players who seem to turn
cavemen the minute they get
into a World Series.
The last thing in the world
baseball wants to do is to dis
cipline an umpire for running
the game in which he Is work
ing. Let any element get it
into their heads that the leagues
or Lands will not support their
arbiters and you can kiss the
sport good-by.
ALLo~L.An nA.V