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Show EXPERTS SEE WORK AHEAD FOR JUDGE KJJANDIS High Mogul of Game to Have Difficult Slug ging By Henry L. Farrell Unitad Praaa Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, Feb. 4. Judge Landis is petting $42,500 a jrpHT-fiL-tecingIja.seball'g craft. He has a seven-yeaTcntfaeTT With the thrift necessary to live within tha $7500 that he gsia fur being a federal Judge, the economic ahnrpa figure fig-ure he ahould coma out of It with cloe to 1297. S00. Pesalmieta who atlll acent last October Octo-ber a odor have two commenta to make on thb Judge and hla future In baseball. KNOCKERS WORK. "Ha won't last mora than a year. He'a too big a. man to be bothered with the magnatea. even for a fortune," gome a.'. "If he lasts aeven yeara. hell earn erery cent he geta," il r ifhera predi.t. No one la queatlonlng i .if jutlge'a ability abil-ity to handle auch a comi it propoaition, but acme axe doubtful 01 his patience. No one haa accused the barrister of being be-ing mercenary, because he trimmed down the original offer of lOO.ODO and the market mar-ket lr!ct for executive ability ami bruins of hia type la much higher In coinmer-. clal or induatrtal circles. JL.DGE FEARLESS. Judge Landis Is absolutely fearlesa aa hla record on the bench ahowa. and furthermore, fur-thermore, he la not afraid of !tia new Job. Home of the peiky hurdles that he will have to go over In hla dealing with tha rcm joint league meetlnga In Ohlcago. When Judge I-andia waa offerci the position aa baseball commissioner he ti aaaured a free rein in handling all diamond affairs. In hla own words, they told the world" thai ha waa to be supreme. su-preme. HARD WORK. He signed tha contract on this under-atanding. under-atanding. , Ve. ha nrat thing the magnntea try to do Is to curtail hla power and make nim a mere tool by changing a word in the original agreement. Instead of permitting him to "act" against all offenders, the generoue magnates mag-nates changed It to allow him merely to recommend" action. The Judge waa the first one to detect ;the alteration and he gave the moguls fifteen mlnutea to atrike out tha worj or get a new commissioner. BLAME UNPLACED. " It haa not been clearly established who recommends the "trifling" change in the agreement, but the National leag je representatives rep-resentatives refuse to take the credit. Ban Johnson Is accuaed of the attempt, but no official finger haa been pointed at him. 'Perhapa thia bold assertion of authority will Intimidate the magnatra and they may remain in the ba.kground and let Judge landis run the organisation. Those who know baseball magnates figure fig-ure that the moon will be made of the well known green cheese before this hap- |