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Professional baseball is as highly organ-ized an industry as any in the U. S. It has laws of its own and a government to administer them, headed by its own fuzzy-haired Tsar, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Tsar Landis and owners of baseball clubs had good reason last week to sigh a big sigh of relief when they learned that, by withdrawing an action known as "The Bennett Case" from the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Club-owner Philip De Catesby Ball of the St. Louis "Browns" had spared them the necessity of testing...
...Bennett case had its roots in an antipathy between Tsar Landis and Club-owner Ball. A close friend of the late Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson, Mr. Ball objected strongly in 1921 when Mr. Johnson and the other two members of the National Commission were deposed to make room for the Advisory Council, headed by Tsar Landis. A few years later he saw what he thought was a chance to settle a grudge. A mediocre outfielder named Fred Bennett, on whose services the St. Louis Club held a contract (which, like every player's contract, gave Club-owner Ball...
...meetings of major league club owners in Chicago last fortnight the Bennett Case was discussed behind closed doors. Last week, nobody knew for sure how Philip De Catesby Ball had been persuaded to drop his stubborn plan of revenge against Judge Landis. For dissuading him from a course of action which might have destroyed organized baseball, gossip credited Clark Griffith, part owner of the Washington "Senators," Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York ''Yankees," and Robert Quinn, owner of the Boston...
...Roosevelt-Dollar-Dawson control (TIME, Nov. 2). A West Indian cruise she was scheduled to make was cancelled and she herself was ordered laid up "indefinitely" at a Hoboken pier. Of her 800 men, all but a skeleton crew were thrown out of work. International Mercantile Marine Co., half-owner of U. S. Lines, promised to try to place them on its other ships. Surprised by the company's action. Representative Ewin Lamar Davis, chair-man of the House Merchant Marine Committee, talked of an investigation of ocean mail contracts and construction loans under the Jones-White Law. What annoyed...
Died. Knowlton Lyman ("Snake") Ames, 62, broker, president of Booth Fisheries Co., owner of the Chicago Journal of Commerce; by his own hand (shooting); in Chicago. Called "Snake" for his twisting style of running, he was one of Princeton's great football traditions, fullback on the late Walter Camp's first All-American team (1889). He was a second cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates ("Hell & Maria") Dawes. Recently he had been in bad health, had worried over finances. Last summer Gurnett & Co., Boston brokers, sued him for $324,561 plus interest...