The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-15
NATIONAL UMPIRE
LEAGUE STAFF
NOW SELECTED
Emslie Now Only a Substitute
and Kane is DismiSsed-Gene
Mccain One of Prominent
Lobbyists


New York. Feb 15-The prosperous
looking representatives Of the eight
clubs of the National League locked
themselves in a room at The Breslin
yesterday and discussed various
things. but held the schedule for the
coming year over until today. All
the clubs stand pat on the schedule,
and 1t is expected that 1t will be
adopted without any evidence Of the
spirited insurgency that was evident
last year. President Thomas Lynch
announced the umpire staff. Steve
Kane has been dismissed and Bob
Emslie relegated from a regular indi-
new umpires on the staff are w. E..
Finneran. who was in the Eastern
and Tri-State Leagues. and Jack
Doyle. the former player with the
Giants. whose experience as an UNI
pire consisted of a few weeks as a
substitute in the Eastern League last
year. The other umpires are reap
pointments. and include Henry ODay.
w. J. Klem j. e. tombstone. Charles
Rigler. William M. Brennan and Nal
Eason.
President Lynch said that Charles
W. Murphy's statement that hereafter
all umpires must have the approval
Of five club owners was not yet in
vogue. The staff Is Mr.. Lynch's own
appointment. Mr.. Lynch also went
on record as being strongly in favor
of sanitary and comfortable dressing
rooms for visiting clubs at the various
ball parks This statement was
prompted by the objection that has
been raised by managers to the club
house of the Cubs in Chicago. Mr.
Lynch said he would visit each club
house before the season opened, and
i,ci CT no
satisfactory in every particular.
President Hermann of Cincinnati
put through an amendment to the rule
governing double-headers. Hereafter
a double-header cannot be played off
in the first series between two clubs.
All unnecessary double-headers and
intentional postponements will not be
tolerated, and the rule relating to
four-and-a-half-innin games being
called on account of rain was changed
so as to read five innings. for the rea-
son Of a clearer understanding. The
either foot on the rubber was
changed so as to read zone foot on
the pitchers plate The rule gov
erning a. balk was also clarified. 1t
now provides that any motion that
the pitcher makes when the ball is
not in his possession. will be balk.
Permission was granted to the New
York and Philadelphia clubs to ADOPT
a new home uniform. which will be
white flannel with a black perpen-
dicular stripe The rule relating to
waivers on players was amended to
provide that when player is award
ed to club on waiver that club
cannot repudiate the claim. The pen
atty for the violation of the waiver
rule was placed at $3.50 for each Of
Tense
Edgar Goldsmith of Cincinnati spent
two hours with the league explaining
the manufacture of a baseball. He
showed the operation from beginning
to end. and submitted a proposition
to provide the National League with
balls after it's present, contract ex-
received from A. q. spalding & Broth
ers, but no action was taken in the
matter.
The meeting was attended by Will
liam Hepburn Russell and L. Coues
Page Of Boston. Charles H. Ebbets,
Charles H. Ebbets. Jr.. and Henry
Medicus, Of > Brooklyn: Charles w.
Murphy Of Chicago. August Hermann
and Thomas Logan of Cincinnati
John Whalen and William H. Gray
of New York. Horace Fogel Of Phil
adelphia. Barney Dreyfuss and Will
liam Locke of Pittsburg, and ST. Louis
was represented by proxy by August
Hermann.
Among the baseball men seen about
the hotel lobby were Christy Mathew
son. Manager Fred Tenney of Boston,
Manager Roger Bresnahan of ST.
Louis. Bill Clarke Of Albany. RUDE
Marquard. Tommy Clarke of Cincin-
natl. Willie Keller of Toronto. Char
les Dooley Of Troy. Jack Warner. who
has signed with Billy Gilbert to play
at Erie. Penn: Joe Sugden. the old
ST. Louis catcher, who will manage
the Newcastle team in the O. and P.
League: John CAMEL of Rochester,
Gene McCann of Bridgeport. President
Barrow Of the Eastern League. and
many others.
There was some gossip around the
hotel lobby about the efforts of the
Murphy s-Fogel faction to line
up William Hepburn Russell on their
side. so as to make a deadlock in any
vote when the occasion came UP. Mr..
Russell stated that he was not in
baseball for factional strife and would
vote on all matters in the way he
deemed best for the cause of baseball
and for his club.
At meeting of the board of direc-
tors held before the regular meeting
the claim of Pitcher Howard Cam
nitz Of Pittsburg was heard Cam
nftz claimed $1,000 bonus. which had
been offered him in the event of his
riding on the water wagon throughout
the season. The board unanimously
voted that Camnitz was not entitled
tO the hOnrS