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Show v-f-ir jaw j 1 111 m t. ri: saw I never played a game of ball Nor did I e'er cavort 1 On grid, or field. In cage or ring. Or on a tennis court. I I do not know a thing about The game: aye. all I kn-.T I Is how to watch the turnstiles click I An4count the piltd-up dough. But though I do not know baseball You w ill admit, perhaps. 1 That I'm a wonder when It comes j To ftaglng pretty scraps. ' ' ' I Maybe Messrs. RufP'Tt. Johnson. Comlskey and the other American league fuctmnallsts figure that, hav- lng granted Judge I-andls a salurv oil I jr.0.000. they'd better get busy and 1 1 make him cam it. . . I Their Idea of making him earn It Is to revive all the back-bltlng rancor ! and hatred of the last few yt ars, drc4, I them up with some new billingsgate I and fishwives' Invective, put 'em on a I platter and present 'cm to the new , baseball commissioner. . . One is inclined to womb r what will I happen. Will Judge Landis undertake to set-, tie the baok-fsnCS blckerlnga ol tlu I rival American league clans? Judge Iandla' high opinion of Vis. ball has been obtained from tho out side as an obaerver. He likes II game as a sport and he'a a real dy tn-the-woo) fan. What Impression of baseball w the Judge get from observation on tin Inside? N04 altogether a good one. Judging by the midwinter antics of the warring factions. Judge Landis may be surprised at tho type of some of the men he will meet on the ' Inside" of baseball. Not pleasantly surprised, but unpleasantly astonished that so delightful and tn tcrestlng a pastime can harbor such a bunch of petty squabblers. It is to be hoped that he finds a w ' to make the magnates forget their quarrels instead of becoming dlsgu---ed with the whole mesa and uulttli. . his Job. I It's Impossible for one to decide tie I merltw of either side In the Am. 1 league trouble. Prohably both It I are w ron. It a of no great Impor 4lltlOW. . . The beat way to fix things up U have both clans keep silent for an tended period, forget the past an., try to help Judge Landis put th. game on a solid footing. ' "Pop" Anson Is dne of the first prophets to come forwurd with the thought that the Judge won t continue vsj-y long as a baeebali head. ffnati are like a lot ' of women always gadding about and I finding fault with every little thing " So says Pop. Pome of the moguls are bound to be crying all the time. They chose Landis to dry their tears, but will they let him? Anson's prediction: "The Judge will give 1 hem up as an impossible bunch when he really finds them out." |