Commercial baseball, scandalized for some weeks before the public eye, hurried its wranglings to a close. In Chicago, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis chewed up many cigars over testimony concerning two dismissed club-managers, Tyrus Cobb (Detroit) and Tristram Speaker (Cleveland), accused of "fixing" a game in 1919 (TIME, Jan. 3). Indications were that both would be exonerated. Meantime a head bigger than theirs was chopped off. Byron Bancroft Johnson, founder of the American League in 1900 and its president ever since, accused Commissioner Landis of wilfully and improperly publishing the Cobb and...
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