The Alaska citizen., 1910-09-12
Scarcity of Umpires.

The scarcity of competent um- pires is best illustrated by the fact that trouble is being found in trying 10 fill the vacancies created by the resignatiOns of Sheridan and the ill- ness of Kerin Excepting Bill Di- neen, none of the members of Ban Johnson's staff have been ball play CTS, but in the future these places will be filled by men who have out lived their usefulness on the dia- mond.
 There was a time when the retired ball player did not make good umpire, as a rule, but the caliber of the men then playing ball was much different from what it is today. It would seem but just that when after years of service a man finds that he can no longer deliver as a ball player he should be given a chance to develop himself as an umpire.
 Dineen has made good man for the American League Because he enjoyed the respect of the players he had chance to get a good start and today he classes with the best umpires on the staff.
 The loss of Sheridan is to be re gretted by the fans and players alike for he was undoubtedly at the head of the officials in the American lea que, because of the confidence the public had in him. his remarkable knowledge of the rules and display of keen judgment at all times and under any conditions.
 Sheridan's shoes will be hard to fill, though he is not to be blamed for retiring when he found that the strain was too great for him. He has profitable business at San Jose. Cal, and he carries with him the good wishes of the baseball public to his new field.
 Comiskey Is Croesus.
 penny saved is a penny earned. in the parlance of the wise man, and baseball affords one road to riches for the thrifty, industrious dia- mond star. Some have laid away for tunes of colossal proportions during years of success in the big and lit i tie leagues, and many, acting at the instance of warm friends in daily touch with the doings of the financial world, have doubled and trebled their savings. Others, taking a lone whirl at some good thing have struck it rich.
 Chances for accommodating great wealth are better now than in the palmy days of Goldsmith, Spaulding, Brothers, Anson Bennett or Flint, for the king pins now adorning the championship clubs are drawing princely salaries in comparison with the earnings of the former greats. says one baseball authority Wisemen of the baseball Armament are unanimous in the selection of Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, as the richest man now identified with the game who acquired his start in life while wearing the spike. But nobody ven lures even hint as to the bank ing account of the "Old Roman" z" He's quoted among the millionaires, | however, and is the man behind one of the biggest baseball plants known to the pastime.
 The Minneapolis Veterans.
 The wonderful success of the Min neapolis Club has set baseballdom buzzing, not only because the team has been winning games at an almost unprecedented rate of speed, but be- cause the club is made up of aged selling platers, veteran fossils and antiquities dating back to the time of Necho.
 Somehow or other, new life has been shot into the bunch and they are playing like gang of tigers.
 Just think of it Old Jimmy Will l Hams making four hits in a game