Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-09
WRONG PLAYERS OFTEN SUFFER
Good Stories Relating comicai in-
 stances of the Diamond.

1 stances Of the Diamond. 1 Some good stories were swapped in 1 the corridors of the Warldorf recently 1 while the National league meeting was l m session, says an exchange. n ols- one said Billy Klem was easily the best umpire on Lynch's staff. Billy is all right" rejoined another man, but he would get along just as well Ii he d1d not always carry chip on his shoul- | der- That reminds me of what l think is the funniest incident I ever saw on the ball field" said Jim Calf ney, owner of the Braves It hap pened in Chicago last season, while the Braves were playing the Cubs. and Umpire K1em took a prominent part in the affair. No one paid much attention to coaching on our team. and toward the end of the season anybody would do the coaching. On this day Buster Brown noticed there was nobody in the third base coacher's box. so he ambled out there. Buster. however, had no idea of going out there to coach. He merely took the jaunt so that some body would be in the box. His thoughts were million miles away, while he was busy cleaning his fngerna1ls with a toothpick.
 .'Klfng was at bat, and some of his friends were seated in a box behind third base They. looked like drum, rners and rooted hard for Johnny all through the game. One of them had a foghorn voice and was rather noisy customer. Klem called a strike on Kling. which the foghorned man did that? Klen made frantic signs for Brown to get off the field. but Buster was so interested in his 1ngernatls he never noticed Klen. Get off the field, MT Brown,' yelled Rem, getting mad. Brown looked at him stupeded. and with his mouth wide open, stammered, Who. me? What for? What did I do?'
 ssNravar ,,,ipd what for roid I(Iarn get off Brown never stopped work ing away al his nails, and took a seat on the bench, where he continued his manieurfng. klem imme ediately spied him, and rushed over and beloved, MT Brown, I told you to oet off the field.' Buster looked at Klem to get him right, and then started to parade off the field, still working diligently away with his toothpick To this day Buster does not know how he came to get that half holiday"
 Billy Murray, the Pittsburg sleuth, was one of the men who enjoyed Calf ney's story. T suffered the same way one tin1e,' said Billy. and will never forget it as long as I live. l always prided myself on being well be- haved man on the field. and only once in all my career was I ordered off the diamond. Umpire Rigier did it to me when he was a new man in the league. It happened on a. Saturday in Phf1a- delphia, when I was managing the
  header and had one of the biggest crowds that ever was damned in a Philadelphia ball park.
 Early in the first game Kid Gleason, who was always in trouble with the l umpires, was bounced. Shortly after ward one of the substitute players sit 1 ting on the bench was ordered to fol- ] low Gleason He had been beeflng Of such tactics. What was my sur prise when Rigler said to me "and you | beat 1t with him. I told Rigler I had | never been put off a ball field in my | fife. that I had done nothing. but he insisted that I remove myself from the | landscape. I never felt so cheap in all | my life to have to leave the park before | sl1 those people. I was made to look weeks, And the big joke of the mat -er was that l WAS perfectly innocent | [ did not say g. word nor make any l aetien that justified Rigier in ordering ne eff the field. My incident shows l aow arbitrary some urapires can be-"
 HORSE NOTES.
 Atlantic Express, 20s1-A is to be .aced again the coming season.
 Tommy Murphy has 50 horses in raining quartrs at Poughkeepsie, N.
 The grand total of 1912 performers with new records of 2.10 or better Is 93
 It Is said that the mile in 2.111-2 ,aced the past season by Boliver, 100 S-4. in a race. is worlds record for ] 15 year old pacer.
 A. $. Rodney, who trained and drove Baden 2.25 IA, the champion money winning trotter of 1912. will winter a elect stable of horses at Guttenburg, '. J., and as soon as the weather will permit in the spring will take his lorses to Poughkeepsie to give them heir final preparation for next seasons 
 Of the 53 trotters that entered the < 10 list in 1912, 32 trace back in the irect male line to George Wilkes, 2.22, nd 27 are inbred to him. Ten of the ewcomers are direct descendants of s 1lectioneer and six are inbred to him $ ixteen of the fast ones represent the Wilkes -Electioneer cross. All but four i ' re representative of the Hamb1eton- Z m family. | Not since 1892. when the advent of z ne pneumatic sullky revolutionized the s ecords of trotting, have so many its- t ortant performances occurred in one ( eason os in 1912. The year just end