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Show fimlllE-LJ HiyIEa9BtsH THE MAGNATr AYS: I never played im of ball, Nor did I o'er cavort On grid, or field. In cage or ring. Or on a tenn'a court. I do not know a thing about The game; aye, all I know la how to watch the turnstiles click And count the piled -up dough. But though I do not know baseball. Vou will admit, perhaps. That I'm a wonder when It cornea To ataging petty ecrapa. Maybe Messrs. Ruppert, Johnson, Com-Iskey Com-Iskey and the other American league faction fac-tion lits figure that, having granted Judge landls a salary of Ifio.ooo, they'd better get buey and make him earn It. Their Idea of making him earn It Is to revive all the backbiting, rancor and hatred of the last few yearn, drees them up with some new billingsgate and fishwives' fish-wives' Invective, put "em on a platter and present 'em to the new baseball commissioner. One j Inclined to wonder what will happen. Will Judge lndis undertake to settle the hack fence hirkertngs of the rival American league clans? Judge lasndis' high opinion of ha e ball has been obtained from the outside as an observer. He likes the game as a sport and he's . real rivrd In the wool fa-r ! What lm pre Ion of baseball will the judge get from observation on ths Inaida? - Not altogether a good one, judging by the midwinter antics of the warring factions. fac-tions. Judge Tjindffl may be surprised at the tpe of som of the men he will meet on the "Inside" of baseball. Not pleasantly surprised, but unpleasantly astonished that so delightful and Interesting a pastime can harbor such a bunch of petty Mjuabblera. It Is to be hoped that ha finds a way to make the magnates forget their qigirrels Instead of becoming disgusted with the whole mesa and quitting his job. It's impossible for one to decide the merits of either side In the American league trouble. Probably both sides are wrong. It's of no great importance, anyhow. any-how. The bet way to lix things up In to havf both clans keep silent for an extended ex-tended period, forget the past and try to: help Judge Land is put the game on a solid footing. 'Pop" Anson la one of the first proph. ets to come forward with the thought that the judge won't continue very long a a baseball head. "Baseball magnates are like a lot of women always gadding about and finding find-ing fault with every little thing." 0 says Pop. Soma of the moguls are bound to be crying all the time. They chose Land Is to dry their teare, but will they let him? Anson's prediction: "The Judge will give them up aa an lmpofthle bunch when he really finds them out." |