Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-17
nx cHRlsTY MATHEWsoN.

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Many articles have been written
about inside baseball in the big
leagues and the added effectiveness
given a team by thorough system
OF signals, but / never saw an article
en- the inside. game that the UNI
pircs work. OF course, the umpires
have, practically no opponents on the
ball field except is active players,
two managers, the substitutes, and
several thousand fans. Therefore, the
umpires naturally do their level best
10 keep from getting themselves in
bad.
KLEIN Won't Cooperate.
I recall overfearng a little CONVEX
sation before the first game of the
pnst-season series between the Giants
and the Yankees in 1910, that illus.
trates this dislike on Klem's part. Bill.
lyY Evans and Klein were the UNI
pires in that series and the National
league official was scheduled to work
the, first game behind the plate As
soon as Evans saw Ford. the New
York Americans pitcher, warming up
he stopped a minute at the plate to
talk to KLEIN before going down to
his place as the field umpire near
first base. AS passed on the way to
the box heard Evans saying to
KLEIN:
You've got to watch this fellow
Ford closely so as not to miss any on
him His splitter has got the funniest
break ever saw. and it is bothersome
If you've never worked from behind
| might be able to tip you off the
best way to work
Il guess we've got as good spitball
pitcher in our league as he is, said
Klein. Il don't need any tips about
calling them.
The KLEIN decision which came up
in the Philadelphia game / mentioned
received good deal Of publicity. The
Giants were playing close game with
the Quakers and, with the score tied,
McGraw sent Mccormick to the bat az
a pinch hitter He made clean hit
that brought the run over the plate
which should have won the game for
the Giants. But KLEIN had forgotten
to announce Mccormick AS Alexan.
der started to wind up Klein, recalling
his slip. turned and faced the stand
to tell the crowd of the change. so
that he did not see McCormick's hit,
since he had his back to the batter
To have saved himself, it would only
have been necessary for Klein to have
looked at the field umpire and get
some sign from him in order to make
sure that the hit was all right. Then
he would have let himself out of a lot
Of publicity and criticism. But Klein
would not do that
Evans Talks Of Throwdown. -.
Billy" Evans has always claimed
Klein threw him down on decision
that came up in the series between
Pittsburgh and Detroit for the worlds
championship in 1909, and that deci-
sion and the confusion which resulted
from the difficulty in making il forced
the national commission to assign four
umpires to the worlds series after
1903. two to stand on the foul lines
in the outfield.
Some temporary stands had been
constructed for the accommodation
of the overflow crowd on the foul
lines in both right and left fields. Be
yCnd these stands, in fair territory,
/, were the regular bleachers. There
was ground rule made for the Sc
RIGS that, if hit landed in fair ground
and the ball then bounded out of the
field and into the temporary stands,
il was to be good for only two bases:
but, of course. If the ball landed in
the field and then bounded into the
regular stands, the hit was to stand
for homo run, as in the season
1t seems that Evans and KLEIN, who
were the two umpires working this
series, arranged some signs so that
the man in charge Of the game would
not get in bad on this decision and
give any two base hits as home runs