Show t- t 1 LI l l 1 to 1 4 r J J 1 1 I j J AND I WHAT nAT NOT T ir irD D OD f 7 fl Ill U J r 1 Judge Landis hat What gives Judge Kenesaw w Mountain L Landis this this strange power jower over hail ball players Why didn't Art Shires hire lure a lawyer 1 and fight light the edict of baseballs baseball's high commissioner Who Vho is isI I Judge Landis anyway that he can tell a ball player how to spend his loafing time And is this Russia Answer the first I question and y you yu u have answered them frail r tall all pretty nearly The judge gets this power over ball baIl players from the major league agreement and agreement and his functions are broad The The agreement says sas that the commissioner shall have the authority tY to investigate either upon complaint or uPon unon his I JI JI i own omi initiative e any act transactions transactIon or practice charged alleged or suspected sus- sus t to be bG detrimental to the tho best est Interests of or tho national game Same of or baseball with authority p to summon Hummon persons and antl to order the production tion of or documents and antl In case of ot I t f. f r refusal to appear or produce to toi i Impose e such penalties as is are arc hereinafter here here- 1 provided Not bOt only that butTo but To determine after atter investigation in what preventive remedial or punitive punt puni tive action Is appropriate In the T r premises and to tako such action either against major leagues major league clubs or Individual as the caso may be In other words Judge Landis is 15 boss and ho knows It 4 I. I S St r t t A day or so ao after the told 1 Mr Shires to pipe down and abandon aban- aban 1 don tho the ring Art received an offer I v f- f from Cleveland to in a o t bone bone- I f fit ft boxing show staged for tho the family family fam fam- ily of the lato Ray C Campbell boxing writer write Art was all for taking it I but was wi wise so enough to accept the tho offer ofer only if Judge Landis' Landis Ision slon could be obtained 1 ned But tho the judge said no no Art remained in inI I Chicago with a bottle of ginger ale for company 1 1 7 Some Somo who had not agreed with Atho 1 tho decision of the judg in m the fi 18 Shires case have asked the Ir in the fir first t paragraph above I But in this instance we agree with l k the decision even though Shires is 13 S. S put considerably out of pocket by bytho tho the edict S According to a a. ball players player's contract contract con con- tract ho can engage in no other I form of oC f sport winter or 01 summer without the permission of or the club to which he Is Js attached Shires i went vent ahead and fought without regard rei re- re i gard to tho the wishes of tl the White hUe Sox executives He lie was involved ed In InI I Investigation n of oC crook crooked cd fights and though he was duly exonerated tho business did aid him no great eat and lastIng last- last it Ing ng good If IC tho the young oung man falls I L into ill repute as a boxer boxel the tho inference Inter infer ence nce reached b by man many people naturally naturally nat- nat is 18 that ho Is not so up and arid up ip up as a ball player either Indirectly Indi Imi- net such business reflects upon baseball |