Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-08
OLIVER TEBEAU.

or" was the meek response, ''it's the same old drunk!' So with Tobeau! It's the same old injury. A bad knee, which re- mains weak and is easily reinjured, has kept him out of uniform most of the sea- son. But his masterly directing hand is seen in the clubs success.
 Uncle Anson has been injured too. So the report goes. have seen it stated and never denied that at least two of his lar board ribs hayo been unhinged from his backbone and arc swinging loose at that end likc a broken down panel of board fence. They tell SD many lies about the baseball Bismarck, however, that this may he one of the July monthly inventions Yet I believe that Anso without any rib connection whatever with his backbone could play about as well as some of the professionals could with double set, all fast and rivGtCd.
 But the old man is growing anxious as tho season wancs. He realizes his teams weakness-iust where pointed it out sev- eral months ago. lIc needs pitchers. Con sequcntly ho has agents out in the woods gunning for specimens. According to cur rent rumorS hG is gathering in new pitch CTS by the gross from the prairies, the com mons, the frontier and the back counties. If thcro be any unconscious RuSies, IOungS, HawleyS or BreitenSteinS wasting their talents in tho wilderness our Chicago uncle is the man to fiud them and bring them to the front No one doubts that they are needed iC the business. Cleve- land, New York and Pittsburg may not need them, but other clubs do. This is os- pecially true of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Brooklyn and Washington.
 The excitement which comes from the great National league championship race makes President Young's task of supply ing competent umpires very hard and trying one. He has been experimenting all season in an effort to find few Ems lies, McQuaids or 14yncbes, but failure aft CT failure has met him fn the work. Betts, Campbell, Calvin and Tuthill have drop ped from the list, and others are officiating whose sole duty in life it seems is to call down the anath,mas of rooters wherever they are assigned to umpire.
 Mir. Young has long since learned that umpires do not grow on bushes nor is tho art of umpiring drug in the sporting market. It looks as easy as rolling of a log, and many are the men who learned differently when they tried it. Emslie and Keefe of all the present League staff have given satisfaction this year to the teams and spectators generally, but even they have not escaped scot free.
 It is notable fact that the majority of this years umpires in the League have been pitchers at some time in their profes- ! sional life. Emslie, Keefe, Calvin and O'Day are the prominent examples of the theory that pitcher should make Q good umpire. Snyder was a catcher. So was | "Honest" John Kelley. Ferguson was an l infielder, and I believe Lynch never played professional game in his life: One of the best finds" MT. Young ever made was Stage, the professional sprinter of Cleveland, who served part of last season. | His woak was excellent, and general regret followed his resignation on account of ill., ness.
 The National league magnates believed after their legislation last spring that they had solved the umpire question and had hit upon rules which would suppress ex- oessive kicking on the hallfield. They now l find that the question is as far from being solved as ever. The system of fines which was adopted at the spring meeting will not answer. Umpires recognize them as excessive and refuse, except in rare cases, ! to inflict them. Players soon realized this | weakness in the code and have taken ad vantage of 1t. In my opinion the only way | to prevent useless wrangling on the ball field is to prohibit all questioning of unl pires' decisions absolutely. But it would | even then be uncertain whether the kicker: could be suppressed.
 There are ball players who kick quite al naturally as a summer girl hirts. The mar who will suggest plan to suppress tha class of players will merit the reverence O i million baseball patrons.
 o. P. CAyLoR,