San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-15
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Is Jumps Downtrodden?
He Thinks He's Right.
A Great State o. Mind.
MIR. L. Rourke's Plea.
He Asks For Support.
= BY Damon Runyon
Copyright. 1926 International Feature
Service. Inc.)

Service. Inc.)
/. Lee Rourke, ofthe Bronx, an old.
time baseball man and father of what
i might term the Fifty-Cent Bleacher
( scat Theory, which is almost as seri-
Gus as the Eins:ein theory, at least
10 Mr.. Rourkc, has taken up cud.
gels in behalf of the umpire.
1t seems that Mr.. Rourke thinks
The umpire gets all the worst of it
IN baseball. He remarks that the
umplre's job has no glory in it. He
says you cannot find any record or
average of the umpire's work in the
baseball books, which l gather is Mr..
Rourke's idea of glory.
The umpire is just tout there" Mr..
Rourke says, yet he is the keystone
OF baseball. Players. manager, club
owners may come and 90 but the UNI
pirc goes on forever, or anyway for
ever in baseball.
lie says the reason baseball people
never boost the umpire is because
some club owners like to use them as
Ills ioi 'hc pVhers puiieu ny thelr
In this think Mr.. Rourke is a lit
Tie severe. 1t is true | have heard
nnJ n aau pianle errors OIL OMISSION
80. ' b,,a sun vi tnc pooI sesticuIa-
,oaa,o a.. nav aiso hcaru .hc same
;noI;naJ - PAS, .h;,' 'nI u.llS. Anu anI
eager 70 Coz MIN nn"d 'nu n,aten aIc as
onyoro ,, so' eoo' unipiii''' WIN "S
tolo iss,,o o. lei A. por,,
statemant thot tboro ;s No aIorv in
,bo rn,,,;ro'i ~ ad 10 d;s So ~ !.
b;msoIf - ''J, "nn ar n h p onon.In
talked with an mmn;rc Who has hoo3
in orgon;,oJ hasaholl tn.o,,tvono
vears and VIC told him +bot bc had
never in oil tbot fine oiven deci-
sion that bn did NOT tb;nk was abso-
lutelv right
bnIieve that II iS tho attitude
of man rmn;res and T believe too,
that most If tbem are sincere /
hold that il ie nlentv Of glory for n
man IN he able to 90 through with
b;e I;fc VOL, bol;oving b;msolf nj
wavs right II is saif-glorv anv-
~ay
az courso What +bo rmn;re meant
:, his statcment r. Mr. Rourka is
that bo bas novor civep decision
that he did not tbink was absolute
To- r;gbt n, ,bo nonnont do NOT
ho,;ayo +hat anv h;a loooue unn;re
in NV oxner;onco In following base
hall ever knowingly delivered n
,~roro decision
N''
Rut II 10 almost Uncomfortable TO
J;S,asSionate moment some decisions
7 have coon and still believe he was
r;.ht IL rnnst have thoncht be was
r;sbt ,t tbe moment but surely he
mt bave Io,ar soon his error
Tho host of umn;res arc human
md II IA human IN orr. In the course
nf a s;raIo hosobaII GANG an nm
miro hos 10 render many decisions.
and n be ;s e5 nor cont right. II
seams 20 mo no ;s doing very we'll.
Still recall a littic fail, some
roars oao NTH William KIem one
r h. uaCfiettlatn TINT
ovor royed n man ont and Mr., Klein
,bcn informed mo that he had never
o,,dorod a Joc;sion that no did not
f;rn,ir hoi;oro r,os tho nronor de-
,,;s;on ,nd govc mo tho immersion
,bnt ho NOT onlv moant hc firmly
toi;onJ - hi, Joo;s;ons ot tho in
80 ,hov u.oro delivered but would
.,o 90 nc doatb nod firmly believing
III Ine,n. % mn t,o+ y mn, who
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,asl ,i mane l" hann, ,non
'niaii'oiii'y 10 ""pp' ''""'
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:. qpuDI thal ~, uf ;Jnnoo %nuoror
I'm MN ini;oJ - ,h;nt tbo+ ENC of
\ aiI I" , ~ h ,nInA ond liz auote
mos Ar,o 'o1 S m0 tbc;r decisions Of
hlghts IcNIe"InS ~ f u0n nrror
lhc aItcl,,oo" an"
sol,icWnrI u .ho, ana mot oo;ro 70
hn'ur 'iii;1 M "te m 81 tboir
lilnhe puo ono,, nmiU ono mmnirc in big
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ne was WIo's III 'nS 49,, r;atmrosona
,iliil ulh,'itc " DIS tne n'o'' IT ~ PHI,
utnplrc 7 TT, nav 49, eneI SCI hoII nloror in
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hIterilooii appe"lru D,Io'" W. 1ob IL
lace IN thc sr"il'iS''l, ni.a t.,np'0' me-
umplric "a. CAP n an" npoios'Teu r,non IN
1ut Lora bilI was a , no ond
many rtspec.S ntn1'E . un sno H.; III liz
uouDt th"t We sn'l '''' SUI Ills ""'
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