The Washington times., 1914-02-08

self on, being rather tickled with the
fact that he had made a two-base hit
voice break out behind him: Yer
out!'
He Saw Hurst.
Germany" looked and say Hyrst
right behind him. He had come hustf.
ing across the field when he saw the
hit and had got close enough to second
base to take the play there. None OF
the rest of us had noticed him. Schae.
fer put up an awful kick and bawled
Hurst out. but Tim" bawled back and
stuck to his decision.
You were late, and you are incompe-
tent" declared Schaefer. 'If you
would keep away from. the race tracks
you might be on the job. How do you
expect to call them from the club
housse."
''YoT don't make the plays close
enough for me TO necd to be any nearer
always there with the comeback. Now
get out of there and go to the bench
before l put you out OF the game"
Hurst was umpiring in Detroit one
dar. when We were playing the Ath-
!etics. and ne called Danny Murphy
safe at first base on a slow rolIar down
the third base line. which Moriarty
steamed across the diamond ahead Of
the runner. At least I thought he did
from where ] was standing in right
field. 1 was playing close behind first
base and Murphy seemed to be out 4
step. Hurst called him safe, however,
which got NV goat"
He was out yard. 'Tirn.'' yelled,
running in 10 where Hurst was stand
ing. back of first.
The umpire paid no attention TO me,
and / finally went back to right fed.
Pretty soon another batter pushed ono
TO the second baseman and was thrown
out before he was much more than hall
way down the line. I was still sore
about the other decision and thought I
would cut loose with q little sarcasm.
How about that. 'TIm?' He was safe.
too. 1 suprcse." I yelled as ran In q
the umpire.
We'll" said 'Tim,' 'Is that what
Sure I answered. still holding nv
ground
IAN right. I'll call him that way il
you want il Now. which was hep?
He was out" l was forced to edmit
LeCause ! knew Tim would have re-
yersed lis decision and called him safe
II / had continued to say he was. That
was ALWAYS Tins" style.
They Admire Nerve.
There is ore thing that ball players
are forced to admire IN ur.1pireg and
that iS nerve. No man lasts Ior In
the big leagues as an umpire without
this quality. Biz leaguers make f.
tkeir business to test out the nerve
OF uIupires at once as soon as they
break in so that there will never he
any question in the minGs o.. the play
crs as to whether they are yellow
or Tot. If either i ball PLAYERS or an
Umpire comes into the big leagr,e and
displays any lack of nerve he might
just as well pack mis- grip and pull out
again. There IS n" room for him.
There Is an interesting story OF hov
Billy" Evans happened to go to work
as an umpire. He. was a newspaper
reporter in Youngstown, Ohio. aftc.
he left Cornell University. He had hce
Iuite a studen; up there as ] get IT,
having played football! until he hurt
mis- Knee. and having sung in the glee
club. | think. When he got back to
YOUNGSTOWN, he had all the 'rah ram
trimmings and was a good dresser OF
and en- and Popular with the YounyS-
town society buds. But the newspaper
BUSINESS was not very r=muneFative in
the small town.
Evans was doing baseball. covering
lot. when the club was short OF nm
umpire one day. Evans had shown
considerable baseball intelligence in
that neighbcrhood. so they asked him
II he would crash out Of the press
stand and umpire the game They nffer-
ed him s. for the afternoons work.
which looked Ike a rot Of money ON
slderlng that his weekly Day euyel-
ope az the .wspaTeT office only carried
az Billy llcurGd he was making
about half Of his salary in one after
noon in this way. and It locked pretty
S"it mill he had gone through one
town to umpire in
However, he suppliei so much general
satisfaction TO both parties by his InI-
pirIng on the first day that they asked