New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
Quigley, with Courage Of
a Lion, Scouts Rooters'
Roar of "RObberw
BILL KLEIN TAKES
TO GOLF, AND WHY
"rm Going to Try" Says Mar.
guard, When Matty Asks if He's
Going to Pitch Next Year.
By HEYWOOD BROUN.

] Dy III w ooD DhOl y.
Every mans hand was against Car
yet how can his lot be compared witt
that of Ernest Quigley, of the Ma.
tional League, who is an umpire all The
year round? The burglar when he
isn't burgling, as William Gilbert ex.
planned, drops back again into tho
community Of respectable folk. and
even the shortcomings Of an umpire
are overlooked in the Off season.. bu,
there is no respite for Quigley.
The rooter's roar Of "Robber!" end.
in October, but what is that to Quis.
/ ley? He hastens straight from the dia.
mond TO the gridirons of the Rocky
Mountain country. Dropping his ind.
Gator. he picks up the horn Of the foot.
ball umpire and is at it again. As
matter Of fact, the gridirons of Colo.
RADIO are not one whit SAFER than the
diamonds of our effete East. Vocal
protests are in order there during foot.
ball games, and il is nothing out OF
the ordinary for the crowd to "ride"
an official.
John Heydler, secretary Of the Ma.
/ tional League, received postcard
from Quigley yesterday, saying that
/ he had ofiiciated at his last football
game of the season. This was the
battle for the Rocky Mountain Con.
ference championship between Colo.
RADIO College and Colorado School OF
/ Mines. But even the end Of the foot.
ball season brings no reformation in
Quigley. He wrote: "Next week will
go to Kansas, where | will be busy Of.
ficiating at basketball games almost
up to the beginning of the National
League season"
So the rooter who shouts "Robber"
at Quigley is wasting his breath. No
body can harry the feelings of per-
petual umpire.
Much attention is paid to umpires
during the baseball season and none
at all in the winter You never hear
of an umpire going into vaudeville or
posing for film plays or making after
dinner speeches. II is our purpose to
lift the veil and reveal Bill KLEIN. He
is playing golf at Lakewood.
Being an umpire, no one will give
KLEIN the benefit of the doubt, but the
fact remains that his golf was not
wilful, deliberate and premeditated.
He went one day TO the Office OF the
National League, and Mephistopholes.
in the guise of John Heydler, thrust
into his hands a bag of clubs. KLEIN
would have pushed them away, but
he was fascinated by the CLEAN Of q
newly sandpapered niblick. 1t was the
12-pound club with two tusks which
John Heydler took 70 Aiken last year.
"What if I should come up behind
Heinie Zimmerman IN a bunker
thought Klein, and the conception 50
fascinated him that he grasped the
niblick still more tightly and went
away carrying the bag Of clubs
Since that day no official word has
come, but it is reported on excellent
authority that an agent Of the French
government saw KLEIN IN action IN
sand pit. And, if one may believe the
story, the Frenchman was so impressed
that he paid a fabulous price for the
twelve-p pound niblick. which will be
used as a model for $4,000 more which
are to be sent to the trench dggers IN
Flanders.
Rube Marquard went to the Offices
Z of the Giants yesterday and encoun-
tered Matty, who asked him: Are you
going TO pitch next year?'
There was no stumping Rube. I'm
going to try" he shot right back
Report from Meridian. Miss, says
that a swinder who pretended to De
Hank Gowdy duped the citizens for
several dinners and $50 in cash. Inc
man." says the dispatch, bore strlk-
ing resemblance TO Hank Gowdy' Inc
story must be exaggerated.
Rube Marquard, jr., take it from his
father, is almost big enough 70 pitch.
/ There is nothing in heredlty. Inc ooy
uses his right arm.
With the return of Roger Bresnahan
to managerial ranks the catcher
better represented than ever before
among the directors Of team play. lhe
/ Phillies ousted a catcher, but took an
other in his place when they chose ray
/ Moran. George Stallings was a cateher
and so was Connie Mack Carrlgsn,
who is leading the Red Sox, is another
Of the catching clan, and so, OF course
/ is Wilbert Robinson.
There may be some reasons why
baseball fan should worry as to wneth,,
er or not Charlie Murphy IS out oi
baseball, but we don't know them
The official averages show that hsns By
Wagner has failed 10 hit IN tne ;yVo ~.
class for the first time since 1897, les
Berlin insists that there is no le''Op
in the German offensive.