The Washington times., 1936-01-29
MOriarty
No Scar
By KIRK MILLER
Tin7eS SnorfS Editor


carrying around little or no
bitterness as a result of the
ordeal through which he
passed during the last world
series when he was verbally
abused from the outset by
members Of the Chicago
Cubs.
That is to say, he feels he
did what any arbiter should
have done under similar cir
cumstances, and, despite the
5000 fine which Judge Lands
plastered on him, along with
rlevies slapped on several members
of the Cubs, feels he has nothing
lover which to hang his head.
Fight Fire With Fire
Moriarty's version Of the
world series incidents is simply
that he could not maintain his
sef.respect and permit the cpl
thetS Of the type adopted by the
Cubs with undue persistence, to
be hurled at him without retail
ating in kind That didn't stop
them, so he elected them from
the game.
you've got to fight fire with
fire" George was saying at the
Arch Mcdonald festivities last
night.
"When the boys got tough,
I got tough, otherwise there
would have been no let up, and
the series would have resulted
IN far more Of a brawI than it
developed into from time to
time.
eyes, there were some harsh
names called, but I didn't get
into the spirit Of the thing un-
til was accused Of favOring
the American League, and that
reflected on my reputatiOn-a
reputation that has stood many
times the years that most Of
those young ball players had
= even been in the game.
when an umpire goes into
o world series, he carries no
league allegiance with him, and
/ happen to be one who doesn't
like to be accused Of favorit-
ism, either in public or pri-
vate."
Goes Back to 1925
During one Of the hearings be-
fore Judge Lands a Cub player
admitted bringing league partial
ity into the vituperation he had
been hurting at Moriarty, at which
Mariarty reminded him:
EFF were that kind of an UNI
pire, could have called Roger
Peckinpaugh safe in Pittsburgh
during the 1925 world series,
when he failed to touch . bag
by half an inch.
II called him out when I was
the only person on the field who
knew he had missed the bag-he
didn't even realize it himself"
No. Moriarty is carrying around
no scars from the world series. He
refuses to accept the sympathy
which was implied in the observa-
tons of many that he ran into
lot of hard luck because Of close
plays in that heated series.
eyes, there were some close
ones" declares Big George, "but
they were clear cut, and for
that reason not hard. The fact
that many Of them came at
crucial moments doesn't make
them any harder to see or to
CALI.
Dates From Away Back
Moriarty makes q statement
which Clark Griffith shared with
him at the Chicago-Detroit series,
it being to the effect that in a
couple Of previous world series
the National League contenders
had ridden Brick Owens, an Amer
lean League umpire, pretty Sc
verely and that there seems to be
a feeling in the National League
. LkIdG -l14C way W WILL d WI IA oC1 4CO
is to first subdue the American
League umpires, as happened to
Owens.
"The only way to stop rowdy-
ism. among ball players is to
meet them at their own tao
tics" MOriarity declares, "Other.
wise they'll try to chase you
right out of baseball.
Judge Lands had instructed
us last fall to be lenient with
= the players and his admOnitiOn
to the umpires had been pub
lished in the papers. The pub
lie and the players knew of
these directions from the COM
missioner, and some of the Cubs
took advantage thereof.
"They simply tried to see how
far they could 60 without being
put out of the game.
"And they found out, didn't
they?"