The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-06-13
DIAMOND DUST.
A Digest of Recent Base Ball News.
THE UMPIRE.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
(Kipling acouldnt stand for an apologU)
A fool there was and he turned to swear
/ 81 Gwen as you and ID
At sorrowful geek who was filled with care.
1--WE called him ''robber." thief. ;" unfair"
But the fool he called him we'll you were there
/ And heard as we'll as I.
oh, the tears we waste and the beers we taste
When the fool from the game is canned
By the bonehead jumps who did not know
(But why in the blazes he did not know
We could not understand)
A fool there was and his time he spent
Gwen as you and H.
Engaging the jumps in an argument
(And he knew all the time what the umpire meant,
But he wouldn't stop of his own intent,
Neither would you orD
oh the game we lost, and the shame 1t cost.
And the terrible fate we planned
For the man who said to the fool YOU'RE out!''
The dough-faced dab. what he was about
We could not understand.
The fool was stripped to his foolish hide
Gwen you and ID
For he left the game and it hurt our pride
(And there WASH a time when the umpire sghed9
But he still lived on while the poor fool died
Gwen as you and ID
But it isn't the shame. it's the loss of the game
That stings like white hot brand,
It's coming to know that jumps got by
With that stuff of his. That's the one thing 1
Never could understand.
If Rube Waddell, of the Millers,
is a talking machine, Mike Kelley
of St. Paul, is Democratic conven-
ton.
A provoked Pittsburg scribe re-
marks that O'Toole evidently is try
ing to give a base on balls for every
dollar Dreyfus paid for him.
The St. Louis American team has
proven a big disappointment and
rumor now has it that Bob Wallace's
days as manager of the team are
numbered.
Rube Marquard on this years
records is not only the zenith pitcher
of the unsalted base bali seas, but a
bearcas with the bat. He has mac
Grated the ball to the extent of 294.
The tip is out that Cy Young is
through at last. 1t is said that the
grand old boys arm has refused to
answer to the call of Spring and
even warm weather does not seem to
help.
Manager Jennings, of Detroit,
now resolutely refuses to talk about
the strike of his players and says in
variably: Cut out the strike talk
and get back to base ball. l am GER
tainly glad it is all over
Manager Joe Cantillon, says: The
Saints are displaying an inland out
brand Of ball. One day they look
like bunch of world heaters and
the next day they look like lot of
lemons
The Phillies jinx is still at work
during the Cincinnati series last
week. catchers Doom and Kiilifer
were injured by pitched balls, and
Magee was badly shaken up in a
collision with Parker.
Barney Dreyfus is still confident
the Pirates will win the pennant,
says he: We have played only p
games, and the schedule calls for
That means we still have 127
to play" Sound mathematics, but
unconvincing.
Cravath ofsthe Phillies, is begin
ming to do some of the slugging
which made him famous in the
American Association. He gives
the ball most powerful punch and
is expected to do better, as it takes
him a month to get going.
Seldom does a manager expert
ence more setbacks than has Harry
Wolverton of the Highlanders, so
far this season. Aside from having
some of his best players out of the
game his pitching staff, in which he
placed so much confidence, has flop
ped over completely.
The man who CANDLES on base
ball is just as obnoxious to me as
the man who CANDLES on something
else. The practice of gambling in