Life, 1927-04-07 · page 43 of 59
Life — April 7, 1927 — page 43: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a **satirical sports column** and **vacation advertisement**, both reflecting early-20th-century concerns. "The New Rules" mocks **1920s baseball corruption**. Judge Landis (baseball's first commissioner, appointed 1920) was fighting widespread game-fixing scandals. The satire presents absurd rules ostensibly to prevent bribery—counting peanuts, measuring drink temperatures, regulating seat access—suggesting the corruption is so endemic that ridiculous oversight has become necessary. References to bribing ushers, pitchers, and umpires reflect real gambling and match-fixing scandals that plagued the era. The page also includes two brief humorous anecdotes and an advertisement for Jasper National Park in Canadian Rockies, promoting rail travel and vacation amenities. The satire's point: institutional corruption in baseball has become so normalized that prevention requires comically excessive bureaucratic control.
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Life 4l The New Rules (To Be Observed This Year by Spec- tators at the National Game) OUNT your peanuts. All over thirty-seven indicate something is wrong. Use telephones at the rear of the promenade to report to Judge Landis. Thermometers for testing the ice- cold drinks may be found at the club offices. The management will be obliged if customers will report vendors’ selling drinks colder than ice. Unless the patrons co-operate it will be impossible to eradicate cor- ruption in baseball. Government Bureau of Standards temperatures should be used for the tests. Do not try to slip into a two- dollar seat after the game has begun. Other spectators may suspect you have bribed the ushers. This may eventually lead to a condition under which the ushers would try to bribe the pitchers When the man under the stand offers you g program with the comment that you cannot tell the players apart in uniform, pay no at- He may be trying to intimidate you. The club m: went desires to eliminate in! tion from baseball. Refrain from suggesting that the pitcher he taken out. Such attempts to influence the bench manager may get an innocent man into bad repute. If he should follow the suggestions from the stands, Judge Landis may hear about it. Avoid referring to the umpire as a robber or other kind of felon. The impression may get abroad that he is not impartial. tention to him. McC. H. At Sunrise Turne is in Sydney a pseudo-Bohemian who is reckoned by his acquaintances as the most unmoral man they know. He was describing a Saturday afternoon orgy at the end of which he woke up to find himself and his friends asleep on alate ferry-boat. Also, he had forgot- ten the Sunday beer. “But Jimmy and Rod had two bottles each, so, without wal I collared the lot and got home,” |, almost proudly. “What!” cried one of his listeners, in- dignant k your mates’ beer? You ought t been shot.” “Iwas,” grinned the unmoral man, cheerfully, —Smith's Weekly (Sydney). A Lady of Fashion “Sur's an insignificant little woman, but how she dresses, Don’t you think she has style?” “Remarkable. She's one of those wom- f who are merely the by-product of their clothes."—Boston Transcript. Meeoring and riding re demons the sports enforcd ot Jasper National Park, Vacation at asper National Park Guarded by Natures Grim Grenadiers The Snow Capped Peaks of the Canadian Rockies LAN to visit the Canadian Rockies this summer. See the towering snow-capped peaks, ghost-like glaciers, yawn- ing canyons, rushing rivers and primeval forests of this mountain wonderland—mile upon mile of nature in her grandest mood. And the finest of all this rugged splendor is found in that 4400 square miles which is Jasper National Park. Visit this vacation paradise, making your headquarters at Jasper Park Lodge. Here—climb with Swiss guides, hike, ride, golf, swim or rest; and in the evenings join in the social life of the Lodge. Rates $7.50 a day up, American Plan. Accommodation for 425 guests. rom May 21st to September 30th. Jasper Golf Week, September roth to 17th. From Jasper take the Triangle Tour of British Columbia, by train down the beautiful Skeena River Valley to Prince Rupert, thence by palatial Canadian National steamer through sheltered seas to Vancouver, returning by rail along the roaring Thompson and Fraser River Gorges. For information concerning Jasper National Park send cou- pon to our nearest office or call for literature listed. (CANADIAN NATIONAL The Largest Railway System in America @ OFFICES Boston $33 Washington St. Buffalo 11 So. Dietston St. Chicago 108 W. Adame St. Clacianat! 482 Walnut St. Cleveland 925 Buciia Ave. Detroit 1269 Griswold St. Dututh 430 W, Supertor St. Kansas City 708 Grand Ave. Los Angeles. 607 So. Grand. Ave. Minneapolis 518 Second Ave. So, New York 605 PYth Ave. Philadelphia 1600 Chestnut St. Pittsburgh 355 PUth Ate. Portland, Me. GrandTrunk Ry Sia. Portiend, Ore. 122 Third St. San Prancisco 689 Market St. Seattie 1829 Fourth Ave. Please send me your free booklet on Jasper 22,548 miles of track, fleets of coastal and ocean steamers, hotels, telegraphs, express—all operated by one huge ieati nv ional Railways, the largest Railway system in America. National Park, also Tourist Map of Canada. comicbooks.com