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Married. Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, 26, onetime (1930-35) famed athlete of Sing Sing Prison, who after his release won permission to play professional baseball by appealing to baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; and Mary Taltha Walker, 19, fellow millworker; in York...
Major result of the uproar caused by Hornsby's ousting last week was an announcement in Chicago by baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis that he would start an immediate investigation of betting on horse races by baseballers in general. Said Tsar Landis: "I'll have to roll up my sleeves and go to work...
...more money than any man has ever made in a lifetime. Yet 30 years ago in the days of Roosevelt I, John Davison Rockefeller was frequently and publicly proclaimed as the "mosthated man" in the U. S. The $29,000,000 fine imposed on Standard Oil in 1907 by Kenesaw Mountain Landis was merely a reflection of the public's temper. Mr. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust were not viewed with the cynical distrust which Big Business enjoys in the days of Roosevelt II. At that time the public was roused to a white fury by the ruthless...
...minor-league team, which hires the player with the understanding that the major-league team which discovered him has an option on his services. Last week, a remarkable case in baseball law concerning a remarkable player was ended by a remarkable decision by woolly-haired and altogether remarkable Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's tsar...
Because too many baseball addicts would rather listen to free broadcasts of major-league games than pay money to see their own minor-league teams perform, baseball's white-mopped Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis last week ordered...