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Major incident of the last World Series was the altercation between Umpire George Moriarty and members of the Chicago Cubs, who said that he had abused, humiliated and demoralized them (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, in Chicago, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced the penalties for such misbehavior: $200 fines against Umpire Moriarty and Baseballers Elwood English, Bill Herman, and Bill Jurges for "vile, unprintable language"; a $200 fine against Cubs' Manager Charles Grimm, for remaining on the field after Umpire Moriarty had ordered...
...Coach John Corriden: ''He was guilty of antagonizing and demoralizing our ball club. . . ." Coach Roy Johnson accused Umpire Moriarty of making improper reflections on the Cubs' ancestry. Said the National League's President Ford Frick: "Moriarty used blasphemous language. . . ." Next day, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis held a conference with all principals involved, announced he might do something when the Series ended...
...Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, one-time Sing Sing convict: permission to play professional baseball except in exhibition games; from Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis (TIME, June...
...decide whether he could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Said Alabama Pitts: "You know it's funny, all this fuss being made about me, when they don't really know whether I can play ball...
Died. Frederick Landis, 62, only Republican Congressman-elect from Indiana, journalist, novelist, brother of Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis; of pneumonia; in Logansport...