The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-25

good fellow ever since ! broke into the
game, and | solemnly declare that | never
yet called a strike on him that he didn't
turn ferocio,s glare upon me and humble
something into his chewing gum about
bum lamps or punk orbs, or recommend
me to get a telescope, or inquire why l
didn't go back to haydn.
The words just ooZe to his lips without,
l positively believe, his knowing anything
about it, and they've got to come out.
Hes a good hitter, too, but ever, time I've
called him out on strikes during these years
THAI I've stood back Of him he's turned to
me with one of those it. l-only- ha d-you-up
a-cark-aley glares Of his and trekked to
the bench with birthstone and perdtion
burning in his eyes
We'll, it wouldn't be the fair thing to put
the clamps on fellows of this kind, who
simply cant help themselves. No umpire
who would listen to or pay any attention to
the Erowls of such chaps has any right to be
in the business. When they cross the line
and become too obsteperous, of course,
they've got TO ue iaiiuieu but their Ordinary
day in -and-day-out grouches aga inst the
umpire on the field must be overlooked.
Its the cool, sneering fellows who let
out their cracks at the umpire without
ever being in the least het up over decisions
vino get on the nerves of an arbitrator of
the ball field, THEY'RE the chaps vho like
to take up subscriptions to buy an umpire
a silver loving knife. 50 to speak
IOnCe put &team capt ain ut ofthe game
ana of the TT a!togethe fer peculiarly
vicious and offensive remark that he made
to me, net over any decision that had been
rendered, but just as he was passing out to
the lot when his side went out. He just
ii Ned alongside of me ana let out the dirty
stab in Il low tone Of voice, so that nobody
else, not even any of the players, heard
him.
He was of the grounds inside of three
minutes, and get he roast ing Of my life
la liz. l,.'f hat
had happened, for the capt ain of the team
hadn't even looked in my direction when
he dressed the offensive remark to me.
Now, the cat cher of that capt ain's team
hai been bawling around like a bull of
Bashan over my decisions on strikes and
putting the captain out for his nasty upper
cut, | failed to maverick the cat cher too.
who kept right on believing, the sun gods
just got up on their hind legs and let me
have It from soup to nuts. They didn't
he catcher, while kickinghe was one Of
the nat ural born UNDERESTIMATE done or
said anything to warrant his being chased,
while the captain had more than merited
being escort ed to the gate.
THE crowds that set up roasting of
the umpire can't see or hear everyt hing
that comes off on ball lot. If they could
they'd be a whole lot less prone to sudden
and unjust attacks upon the arbitrator.
Baseball crowds, and especially the
bleacherites are becoming fairer all the
time. | notice that every year. There's
not hing like so much partiality among
them as there used to be. There's a strong
underciog feeling among them.
Take the West tern tour of the Washing
ton club. for example. All hands in the
West were ticklrd over the way the Ma
tionals had crawled to the top at the outset
of the season, The cog that had been unGer
for such long time getting to the top
appealed to their imaginat ions, so that in
Cleveland. and in Detroit. and In Chicago,
and notably in st. Louis. the home crowds
actually root ed throughout for the Nationals
against the home teams.
II umpired the Nationals games at Cleve-
land and Chicago, and the gangs gave me