The Nome nugget., 1921-10-01
BASEBALL MAGNATE
 LED DOUBLE LIFE


 families today are mourning the loss of husband and father in Arthur I. Irwin, veteran player, manager and baseball scout.
 Irwin. told by physicians after an operation that he had only a few days. to live. is thought to have com mitted suicide last week by jumping off a steamer on his way to Boston.
 Investigation into his disappear anve led to the discovery that he had two families. one in New York and the other in Boston.
 His New York family consisted of a wife and twenty-four-year old married son, F. Harold Irwin. The Boston family numbered wife, a thirty-seven-year old son. Arthur Herbert Irwin; two daughters and nine grandchildren.
 The Boston widow. who was the first wife. said they were married in 1883. She said that she had never suspected him. even though her re- latives years ago had insisted that he had another woman in his life.
 Harold Irwin. the New York son, says that his father and mother were married twenty-seven years ago. in Philadelphia, where they met when his father was coaching the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania baseball team.
 The New York widow was slow to believe the revelations. She said that in the twenty-seven years he had never been away from home more than a few days at time. when he would make trips to look at young ball players on college teams and in the minor leagues.
 Both widows asserted that the husband wanted to die in their arms The Boston widow pointed to the fact that Irwin went first to his New York family, divided his personal possessions among them. and started for Boston to be with her. when he was overcome with pain on the steamer and jumped overheard.
 The New York widow says that Irwin left her to bid goodbye to friends in Boston. and was going to return to her.
 The theory that Irwin was in pos session of $1 1,50O at the time of his disappearance. and that he might have been robbed and murdered. was discounted by the statement of his New York son that he had left all his money with them with the exception of $35.
 Though reputed to have consider able money. Irwin. it is said. con- tributed little in the last thirty years to the support of his Boston wife and children. His parting gift was a checque for $500 received form the sale of his rights in a football score board devise which his brother John says was worth $1.50O in annual royalties. The sale is being inves- tigated by the family. which has un- dertaken to secure as much as pos sible from the estate for the Boston wife. who is almost destitute.
 Members of his family here believe that the baseball man meditated sui eide for some time before he actually took the step. In a note accom- .panying the checque sent to Mrs. Irwin he wrote: God bless you all" !" Never before. said the wife. had IT, win sent her so much money, rsuch a message.
 The New York wife told members of tn Irwin family that the only relatives she knew the baseball man. ager to have were his two brothers, Richard. who is connected with a New York brokerage firm, and John proprietor of a hotel at Nantasket Beach.
 Montreal,-Irwin was for brief period manager of the Royals. of Montreal. and directed the destinies of the Toronto Maple Leaf Club. of which he was managing owner in 1895 and 1896. He was also man. ager at different periods of the Gin cinnati Reds and the Washington Major League team.