In order to clarify the college amateur baseball rules, but
not to open up old wounds, we quote High Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain
landis as fellows: “Secret baseball contracts, the kind in which a

usually gets financial assistance for promis-~

to join the paying club after graduation, are legally worthless."
Says Judge Landis, “Players publicly receiving such financial aid
either directly or by their parents, customarily are declared in-
eligible for further college competition as was Lou Bodreau, now
manager of the Cleveland Indians by the University of Illinois."
Juige Landis pointed out that sub-rosa pacts made it impossible for
sional clubs often enabled those clubs to violate the player
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Landis made the ruling in a ease involving Anthony Rarick and
the New York Yankees of the Aneri League. The Commissioner said there

able," Landis added, “as it would include the entire baseball organization
in the false pretense, in which the player and the club have engaged,
that the player is honestly complying with college athletic eligibility
rules, which in fact, are being deliberately violated." “The obvious
impropriety of that situation is in no wise diminished by the fact that
eollege athletic officials often are fully cognizant of that violation
anc are participants in then."

The high commissioner declared that in the future clubs and
affiliates which signed umiercraduates to secret contracts would be
fined.

Herb Pennock of the Boston Red Sox denied that Lester Layton
had been signed by the Red Sox. It is pointed out that Jimmy Strong, a
star pitcher from Wichita, Kensas, North High, attended the University
of Okishoma two years ago and after one year there signed a Boston Red