Word: kenesaw
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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Yesterday's whirlwind demonstration at the Polo Grounds against Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was typical of the American mob in its most blind and unreasoning mood. Under authority vested in them by the rules of big league baseball, the umpires have the power to call a game on account of darkness, and acting under this authority the umpires called the second game in the World's Series, when the score stood three all at the end of the tenth inning. Darkness was falling fast, and in the opinion of the umpires a continuance of play for another inning was impossible...