The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-29
BASEBALL GOSSIP


 In discussing the comedy side of an umplres career. Billy Evans gets on the following:
 The baseball fan who supports the great national sport misses one DE feature O the game.
 He sees the actual plays, marvels at this or that fine bit of hitting or field ing, goes into ecstacy over some won derful pitching feat and gets lot or pleasure out of kidding the yisitlhg players and roasting the uPspire over what he believes are poor decision.S
 The fan, however, misses one inter esting feature of the great sport lie fails to hear and aprFselate a tne many es,I v delightful things thet are passeo From rom pire Perhaps some of the compll- mentary expressions would rather Jar him, but on the whole he misses q lot of pretty good things, that would at least serve as a producer or hearty
 History fails to show where any player ever won an argument from Tim Hurst. still the players as a rule delight to get into an argument with the portly one. often they pass Tim something just to see what his come back will be, and Tim. never falls to respond with a good jolt; .,., ingham of the Maps. had gone about a dozen games without getting any thing that resembled base hlt. ne came on the grounds with anytnlIl9s .s9s but a happy frame of mind. When Sir Timothy came on tne field to start the game, Birmingham was the only Nap player on the bench. The day ,preVl- Ous Tim had ended up the game ,py decided to inform Tim that he slightly disagreed with the decision,
 Say. Tim, are you going stone blind. was the greeting accorded MT. nurst as he poked his head under the Cleve- i@"S aHoa De I guess my eyes are in fairly good shane, MT. Birmingham. at least Mir. Johnson thinks well enough or the resnonded Tim T want to inform von, however. that if you don't s"on get A base hit the homefolks up at Elmira will begin to think you nave 3. had hoth of your arms amputated.
 Tim had reached Birmy's sorest spot and he responded only with a smile.
 During a game at Washington one day last year between Ielr9.t anu ,.. tI,e tts Nationals things. were breaking ratp- CT tough for Tommy Connolly.
 million close plays had come up' and as fortune would have 1t mum Der of them were gong to the iiseIs'
 On the day in question, Hughey Jen- -njn9s had just been reinstated arter a ten days suspensiorN and he was do- ing hilarious stunts on the coachlng line, in hopes of encouraging ms team
 otis Clymer, who had not played for some time was doing bench duty ana coaching. The number Of close decls- ions that had gone to Detroit ratne1 angered Mir. Clymer, and as he came fo fine bench from the third base lines a fter Tommy had called Washing ton Dlayer out at third, made the foi- lowing remark: .s,.. and get suspended a couple of times before he has a chance to get an even break from you umpires.
 We only suspend regular players and managers in this league. You haven't a chance to get short vaca.. ton. so you can maKe trip home, was Tommy's curt reply.
 During the rest of the afternoon n, ot.s 0Il. thought a lot of things, but wisely kept them to himself
 Late in a game at Chicago last year, Manager Jones came to the bat with a couple of men on the bases. and two the rear and the White SoX leader was in anything but cougenial mood lack Sheridan was umpiring. and as inc first ball whizzed past the batter. ha deciared ii a strike. Mir Jones was of the opposite opinion. and in order 10 convey his belief to MT. Sheridan, he remarked in rather loud tones.
 .syVhu I see you are at your old spe- cis1tv of guessing again. It seems to me you ought to be able to make a fortune in some lottery-not.
 The next ball happened to be beau tv and Jones took a swing at 1t. IL was one of Cy Young's fast inshoots and he missed 1t by a wide margin. This was just the opportunity Sheridan
 'fIt seems to me as if I had some thing on you when it comes to guess ing. You missed that one at least a foot while I wasn't quarter of an inch off at the very worst" smiled the
 The next one was right over, look ing good to Jones. and again he swun in vain This was more than Jack had hoped for. and as Jones started to take his place in center field. Sherry couldn't resist from getting In the parting shot.
 Y wish all the batters were as easy to guess on as you, old pal. If such