The Washington times., 1936-04-29
Clip Tough
Tongues,
Judge!
By KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Dig GaWS0 MVE1aEGy' WIN
will be a guest tonight at the
Father-sons Banquet of the
Washington Hebrew Congre-
cation at the Mayflower, got a
warm reception from the
Washington fans as he poked
his head from the clubhouse
runway to umpire here for the
first time since he was the
storm center of some extra
curricular world series strife.
The second-oldest arbiter of the
league in point Of service has
had little to say since last o.
tober regarding the disgraceful
scenes which marred the Tiger
Cub series and which sickened
those near enough to baseball to
know the epiteths hurled.
Enemies Don't Count
Big Gawge said back in the win
ter, however, that he feels his
friends understand he did all he
could to maintain decorum, and
that his enemies probably wouldn't
recognize the truths if confronted
with them-so what the deuce!
OF course. if Judge Lands
weren't fence straddling baseball
politician, who always awaits pub
lie reaction before he draws his
penalties out of mail-order house
catalogue, as he did in the Mori-
arty-Cubs dispute and in the Ala
bama Pitts controversy, he could
check all possible further world
series outbursts between the &C.
tors in the classic.
One Way To Stop 1t
He could simply promulgate a
ruling whereby the players on
each team would be told ahead Of
the series that they must confine
their comments to members Of
their own clubs and that if they
verbally abused a member Of any
team having it's turn at bat, all
runners would move up a base on
the first offenSe, and two bases
on the second offenSe. etc. Even
the man at bat would be given
first base if unSeemly comments
were hurled. with no runners on
bases.
But the man who once fined
the Standard Oil Company 20 mil
lion dollars, hasn't got the nerve
left now that he possessed then,
and his handling Of many issues
which have cropped up in the
realm over which he has domain,
have been handled frequently in
Q vacillating manner.
GOslin Served Notice
Goose Goslin and the rest Of the
world champion Detroit Tigers
came unto our peaceful little ham
let yesterday and served notice on
the Washington team and. the
Washington fans as to who's who
in the American League.
The Goose cracked the third
ball pitched to him in the second
inning by Edward Linke, Esq, for
q home run over the right field
fence, proving he hasn't forgotten
the dimensions either of the field
or the wall which encloses it.
There was no one on.
Then, along in the sixth inning.
Hank Greenberg, the hero Of every
kid in the country, hoisted one Of
Linke's deliveries into the left-cen-
ter bleachers with Gehringer on
first. That amounted to practi-
cally an insult to the Washington
horde. It was like bad boy shak-
ing his fist in your face.
Meanwhile, Lefty Joe Sullivan
simply low-balled the Washington
batters into eventual submission,
alternating that tantalizing deliv'
cry with an occasional chest-hlgh
pitch, just as come-on.
Griff Never Winces
I was sitting near the venerable
Clark Griffith, who twice traded
Goslin out of washington, when
the Goose connected for his cir
cult clout, and with credit to the
poise of the gaffer of'Georgia Ave
nue., must say that he never
WINGED.
Later on I moseyed away from
there, and consequently am unable
to record Griff's reaction to Green
berg'S kissing home run.
often wonder how fellows like
Griff and Connie Mack feel when
they see their inadequate teams
perform in the manner that has
characterized recent games here
They both know good, smart, Ell
fective baseball. They've both
played on, managed and owned
good teams, and now, it has come
l. l.