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...Wrote Baseball's Akhoond of Swat, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, that he felt it was best for the country to keep professional baseball going during...
...abdominal lesion at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Ave. Hospital. His doctor called it "quite serious," added: "He's going to get over it." ∙∙ In Hollywood Jimmie Durante broke a rib playing the part of a moll in an Apache dance. ∙∙ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis lay in a Petoskey, Mich, hospital after a pneumonia attack. ∙∙ Oldtime Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece of elbow bone, left over when the doctor fixed...
...Charles Francis Adams (not to be confused with onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, no kin) took over controlling interest in the Boston Braves. Grocer Adams also owned Boston's sumptuous Suffolk Downs race track. That made him, in the eyes of Baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a greenbacked Satan. In governing baseball's affairs, Judge Landis has always had one rigid rule: no one connected with horse racing may own a major-league ball club...
...result of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, in which Sherman lost 2,500 men, a Union Army surgeon who lost a leg there named his next son Kenesaw Mountain Landis. "Thus," observed Biographer Henry F. Pringle, "was the blunder of General Sherman immortalized." Last week frosty old Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis saw a wish fulfilled. Baseballmen meeting in Atlanta fed him fried chicken, then stuffed him in a car, drove to Marietta, Ga., where the City Council presented him with "a little farm where I can look out and see Kennesaw Mountain...
...Baiter has vigorously belted all sorts of sporting figures around. Among others, he has walloped Avery Brundage, Dizzy Dean, Kenesaw Mountain Landis and Jockey Don Meade...