Show 7 J WESTBROOK PE LE R Special Rules Prevail in Sports OME of my colleagues on the sport side have been arguing that It isn't right to punish a man by some special law of baseball or pugilism for an act which is not illicit in the view of the cops or to punish him for some offense already expiated in hi the public clink That would be double jeopardy wouldn't it Yes it would and it is supposed to 10 be repugnant to our delicate sense of justice but that is just what we we say It really is not repugnant at all The miscreants or martyrs here concerned are arc Leo Durocher and Rocky Graziano Both are good but both were bad i Happy Chandler commissioner of the baseball industry gave no reason Teason why he suspended Durocher for the season of 1947 In my opinion which Is never humble or erroneous although it often stands alone this was a whimsical personal judgment of a man who had been touched off oft balance by a confusion of events An equal effect might have been wrought by a briefer suspension or just some loud public wigging Graziano is a guttersnipe But anyone who tries to argue that his environment was responsible for his police record and his misconduct in the army must explain away Al AI Smith and the late Cardinal Hayes who came from rom the same neighborhood and explain the sons of the Park avenue branch of the Jeeter Lester family |