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Show LANDIS IS A REGULAR FELLA! i'r ! !; When Baseball Got All "Balled" Up They Called on the, Chicago Judge to Do the Moses Act at $50,000 Per Year BY DEAN SNYDER, . CHICAGO, Nov. IS. Why did they pick on Kenesaw Mountain LandtsJ the Chicago judge, to be tln Moses of lour baseball? That's a whale slsed n'e8llon. But the answer sums Itself up like lump of sugar. The whole American public has faith In Jutlgn lentil' Those are blgr words No higher tribute was ever paid to any one ln-.Uiividuai. ln-.Uiividuai. BSven a. president or a Kinn i mleht well env y Ihe Chicago Jurist I such a bouo.net expressed In our Kng- i llsh vocabulary. PPI II 8 BORSJ 81 SSI ii la program since LfOS has been to 1 apply horse sense to human troubles. Ami that's all under the sun that ibaebiiii needs right now. . i.l i it,. .-, Iw.ur IBllttl tlw. . tnigi w cviid convince anyone of his I bigness of v ision, his interest In hu-I hu-I mans, and his love fy' laseball the game which has Focused the limelight upon him b giving him s 150,000 a e.ir job In place of the dink $7500 Ihe now receives. As soon as baseball is mentioned (Judge Landls hn mediately becomes Minr friend. l llvl CS TO i "You baseball men have been vary (kind tO me," he said Want to talk about it. do you? Let's take a wulk, then." j The v. Ind was whipping up Mlchi-,gan Mlchi-,gan avenue at about the "ante rate of ; speed whli h Walter Jotinscn used I when in' ws feellni good. The raw (of winter was In It. too. The judge pulled his hat down over :his eyes, turned up i.is coat collar, (snatched up his knotted cans :md was loft ;t I a 'Weston" Mfrirl,. QAMJE'S PASCINATING I ' Tm not much of a winter leaguer," i he Bald. "The part of the game that I fascinates nie is the one they play on the tllaiiiond- "1 cun t think of anything more tragic tn. i, i Ho- tii .piini; nf hu.se ball, can you? I don't know how to ac-! ac-! count for the bigness of baseball. But I do know that rou'l find men and boys arguing over the batting avcr-iagei avcr-iagei of the stars even in remote settlements set-tlements tar DSi k from (he railroads Ihuadreda at unit s away from where the game Is actually played. It 1SEB XI I s Si OPE. "Thousands of folks never have ;seen a big league game Thousands iof them never will, perhaps. They've t never been closer to Babe Ruth, Tria SU taker and ly Cobb thun I lo- pnnt- ed newspapei page. Bui the can tell you exactly how they hold their bats or how they comb theln hair. "Why do peoiile ro to see Babe (Ruth hit home runs? Gosh1 that's the answer. They do. don't the 7 Ill s VI 11 spiiKI "I've met Trls 8p ii.er. Well, that is. 1 shook hahd.s with him during the world scries. Sfuuny how a fan likes to Imagine he's Intimate with the stars, isn't it? "Wouldn't it b awfui ir tbt.v should abolish the woild series; I haven't missed but tjiie in the last f lev en .wars. I can think of no greater tragedy than the crippling of baseball. It means just thai DtUCh the American people. I 8KB TO PL.Y1 . Mid I ever play baseball : I'll sav I did. Iticht here along Michigan '.venue. We fellows us tl In get out hers at the noon hour along the water 2 ' 1 OUDGE X. M LAMDlo iiniifo h. M ijintii- Isn't easentlallj different nt a baseball same from uimt lie ! wlieii ptvaldlng over hi- cjurt. The ipaskle of tn tercel lu iu-eyes iu-eyes j'i-i the Nunc, Mils picture was taken while tlie jmiue mls watching a iiw in Clilcago, Note Hint he's puffl i a cJgarei J 1 1 -i in"- an other inn apt to tin during tense momenta. His necktie has dipped around t" the northeast or somewhere Qiercabotits. But itat' the difference. No-bNi No-bNi thinks about trifles when tltc bs es arc loaded ami itabe itntb i- up tin r- waving his bludgeon So meet Judge Kcuesau Moan tain Land! THI i We're told that tire Judge likes thi- picture abnn dm b-st if nn ei er taken of bint. front. I guess that w."s about ?,0 ars ago." Muring the liot-foot walk up and down Michigan avenue the Judge spoke to scores of friends. He poked shivering traffic cops In the back with his he$Y) cane and "helloed" them. He slopped In at an art shop to admire ad-mire etchings of Lincoln and Itooso-: velt. He particularly liked the drawings draw-ings of Lincoln. IDM1R1 s i im hi "The artist didn't make the mistake of rubbing out a lot of lines s most of them do Set- that War I on honest old Abe's fnce. It couldn't be more natural." Back at the court chamber In the postofflce building Judge Landis was hrimminjr over with pep and fire M. ate a box lunch between telephone calls. "1 wnlk five miles every day," he said. "You'd be surprised what a : walk will do for a fellow. Kills i jui- lungs full of fresh air and clears t" out of your mind (.AMI WEEDS HIM At 2 o'clock the Judge was back In tho courtroom at his business of applying ap-plying s.me more horse sense to Chi-1 cagO'S troubles. That's wh:tt they want him to do for baseball. I. And the horaehlde sport can stand a lot of horse sense. The game has outgrown the business Instincts of the Ban Johnsons and the John Heydlcrs. j tnd these men .u" w ise enough to see it. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis Is i the tinrior and on tp of that he's a regular fellow. If you've any doubt In your mind SS to that Just drop In at his human.' workshop and spend a noon hour with!1 him. He'll probably take you for a'' walk, and convince, you. too. |