The morning times., 1896-03-19
CayIOr Says the Big Pitcher Is
Not Speedy al BIuffing.
DAD CLARKE'S VOCABULARY
Dads English Is More Picturesque
Than Elegant, But Is Very Express
WasIIingtOn's Favorite Umpire, Re
lates His Minneapolis Experience.

! paper the New York Herald, from the
practice grounds of the Giants at Jack
! Sonyille treats Rusies case OF insubordl-
nation and refusal 10 sign contract III the
| following distinctive Caylor style:
Rusic is an apprentice in bluffiDg, after
all Breitenstein is TO him as Calye is 10 a
| girl in the chorus.
why did not Amos sign with the Kokomo
Kickers, of the HoOppole League, at
salary OF 81 800 and 10 per cent Of the
! profits?
That would have given tone. color, ana
substance TO the business.
somebody has said-maybc il was that
! nhilanthropist Brush-that Rusie peTe
is business mana ger for the lndiaHapolitan
| bucking engagement. If he is he doesn't
| know his business. There should be press
agent, with daily bulletins running into
n climax with the apex for a jumping Off
point.
The only assurance we have from Pop
! Rusie is that he VIII not let Annie play
/ for New York unless 5000 worth OF fines
/ which the son suffered he remitted.
Now the Rusies may have money In their
cellar for future use, and again they may
not
II the broth Of a boy does not earn New
! Yorks 50, 400 he viii not earn onc-third
| hat much in any other line of trade.
When se was whisked into Baseball and
| fame Amos was stuffing mattresses with
excelsior and lambs wool at a royalty OF
| SO a week They do it now by machinery,
| and as there is no opening IN Congress from
ais district, he must play ball or marbles
this year.
As | said before. the indianapolis wonder
PLAYED in luck when he got away with his
| asst summer fun AT the cheap expense OF
5000.
If Rusie the elder, is a wise father, he
viii send his big-waisted boy 10 Florida
! N the new moon and urge him 10 atone for
The sins OF commission and omission OF last
season.
DAD AND THE COLLEGE BOY.
CayIor also states the difference between
correct English and United States, as she
is spoken" He uses the cultured Zearfoss
| TO Illustrate the former, and rings in Dad
| CIarke's Bowery cabulary as an example
| of the latter. O. P puts it this way:
college man in a team is always use
full.
Zearfoss lie the Giants learned member
this year.
Last season we had Murphy and the
cultured Boswell.
The scholarly attainments of "Bozzy,"
TO say nothing of his pitching and his
appetite, VIII keep his memory green in
| the minds of New York rooters for many
| years.
Zearfoss finds foir in william Wanter
Rawleigh Clarke, OF Oswego.
Mr.. Clarke may not know as much about
| science, helIes lettres, dead languages, and
metaphysics as does Zearfoss, but he ex-
! presses what knowledge he does have more
fordbly and to the point.
When il comes TO making an umpire be-
] heve in his own degeneracy, a good ex-
| pressionist like Clarke, who deals in the
! home-Iike language of the upper Sus-
quehanna, is much more seryiceable than
a college graduate, who is taught to be-
/ Heve that Agamemnon was u greater
mortal than Anson.
Mr.. Clarke can teach Zearfoss the way
TO turn an outCurve into 4 thTee-bagger
| but Mr.. Zearfoss has not been able TO con-
vince Mr.. Clarke that Spanish moss. which
apparently grows without ground con-
necIon, does not practice slcight-of-hand
in obtaining its vital sustcnancc.
TIN HURsTs DEBUT.
Everybody in Washington who knows
anything about baseball knows Tim Hurst,
he red-headed and peppery-minded League
umpire. II was in this city last fall that
Tim made his reappearance as Il National
| League Indicator handler after his en-
forced temporary exile TO one of the minor
| organizations. The fans viii remember
the ovation that was given him at National
| Park that evening when he stepped out
! on the diamond and said PLAY ball.'' i'll
the commanding voice which has the re-
| spect and compels the obedience OF every
! player in the profession.
Tim in his earlier days umpired in the
Western League. He made his debut at
Minneapolis, and tells his experience i'll
! the following original manner:
1T was the day after the Sullivau-Kil-
rain fight when l made my debut as an
umpire in Minneapolis. l had just fin
| ished umpiring for the Southern League
and left New Orleans for that city. 1
arrived there all right, but of course, 1
was not stopping at the Arlington then.
Under the circumstances, when 1 trotted
out TO umpire that first game, L wore a
linen duster and a cotton shirt and was
right In it, so to speak.
ANY one who thinks that the life of an
umpire is hard makes a mistake. It is not.
IL it was a choice between umpiring and
q bed of roses / would take the umpiring
every time. The game was going along
and / was working, as j thought, out of
sight. Every time the ball was hit
was off with the runner and beat him to
first. l wanted TO make a success. My
face was pretty red from being down South.
The crowd called me a boiled lobster, but
that did not make me angry.
The Minneapolis team lost the first
! game to st. Joe, and the crowd became
sore and started in to roast the innocent
umpire. The owner of the grounds was
a bad man and he was against me. too.
Behind me in the grand stand sat four big
| fellows. They guyed me worse than any
one else. They called me a turk, a
boiled lobster 'no-good umpire and
number of unprintable names.
TINS IRISH UP.
Il held out until / could stand it no
longer. One man in the gang was par
ticularly offensive, and / tried to locate
MIN whenever a feut ball came along, by
half looking around. Finally he noticed
me and said: It's me that's calling you
these names, young feller.' AN right,
said /, you're the man I'm looking for.
| ] thought it was you =, but wanted to ma Ike
sure
Il could never miss him. He wore a
big lavender necktie and Il broad -brimmed
western hat and threatened TO DO me up
! when the game was over. / saw that /
was in for il, that the outlook was a warm