Show Landis Highlights Compiled from United Press Preas Associated Press and International News Service Judge Landis' Landis father was a a. surgeon lur- lur geon in the Civil war and lost a a. leg at the battle of at Kennesaw mountain hence the original name for tor the baseball comm commissioner Landis actually actu was a s judge his was no Kentucky colonel designation lie He Is la remembered by legal students an as the Ju judge ge fine who ho imposed the largest ever er assessed sed a defendant ordering ordering ordering or or- dering the Standard Oil on Co of Indiana to pay 29 In the famed rebate ca ease case e. e And that was as as In the days dayn da before the new deal and Its It dollar billion outlays out out- lays Jays of cash It was vas on the bench that the wit which later characterized his baseball rulings first made news new A favorite concerned the year 65 old offender who was handed a. a lengthy sentence by Landis But judge the prisoner complained complained com corn Ill be dead before the sentence is Js finished Well Vell Landis drawled do the best yo you can Landis of ot course was waa largely responsible for tor cleaning up baseball baseball base bue- ball after the Black Sox scandal almost killed the game He was uncompromising in his designs a a. trait which earned him the title of ot the czar And czar czar- he was Only a few months ago he forced the owner o of the Philadelphia Phillies Phillies Phillies Phil Phil- lies to dispose of the club when he found that the owner had been betting betting betting bet bet- ting on his own team to win His phobia against all gambling but especially horse racing was responsible for Rogers Hornsby HOrNby to never last long In the managerial managerial managerIal man man- helm of any big league club although the Rajah was wac one of the greatest and moat most popular stars star And Bing Crosby because of his interest in the never could own any part of ot A Abig big league club But Landis though stern stem was u always 81 fair tale lie He once freed treed the greater tater part o of the Detroit farm Detroit farm 8 system stem chain gang because because- of contract violatIons It was Landis even more than Babe Ruth and the other great stars of the game who made baseball baseball baseball base base- ball the all American game And Landis W was the noblest of the noble |