Evening star., 1955-01-17

were not professional balpiayers MCGOWAN was great
umpire and Dinneen was not far behind Indeed Dnneens
arbter unusual because he had
30 player MCGOWAN, like Bill KLEIN, Billy Evans Jack
Sheridan Tommy Connolly. Bill Summers and so many
others, never played ball
DINNEEN LASTED LONGER as an umpire than any
former player otherwise George Moriarty who
played third for Detroit in Ty Cobbs heyday and later
managed Tigers umpired for 20 years, and there
others like Ed Rommel Charley Berry Babe Pnel Jocko
Conan Frank Secory and Lon Warneke who have shown
the total of big league bapayers who have made good
major league umpres
Marberry for example could not stomach the abuse
he from the dugous and quickly resigned George
Ppgras another fine pitcher gave eightyear trial and
bowed out for the same reasonl
MCGOWAN probably with the nearest thing to
pre starting kid 49, of the others had athletic
backgrounds Bil Stewart had been hockey Official Cal
Hubbard a great pro football player and Bill Summers
preliminary ger) but there were postal clerks larry Goetz
for exampe) and clothing statesmen uke Bill Engen) and
they have been in the majority.
81 Dnneen became umpire simply because he was nm
shed . pitcher-he started with Washington In 1893
because he out Of work and liked baseball Jocko
conlan, at present top umpire in the National League
81 became one by quirk of fate.
M JIM KAHN WHO after long study wrote aThe Umpire
Story tells of Conlan start in 1885, when the White Sox
were playing the Browns in Chicago It boiling hot
fday Emmett ormsby, who formed two-man umpire
team with Harry Geise overcome by heat and carried
from the field. 4f f81 90 N@
Conlan, White sox outhelder whose speed afoot
his best recommendation, out Of the lineup with
managers,
Rogers Horsby agreed that Jocko could umpire the bases
Tgnoring the tauts Of teammates and foe alike, Conlan
gave the job all be had particularly when Luke Appng Of
the White Sox tried to stretch long drive into triple
Jocko cutting inside the bags than held his own
with Apping, whom he egged by saying "C'mon what's
holding you up?" When completed his slide into third
base there the ball split second earlier and
Conan yelling aOutl'
"Out?p Applng demanded. eJocko how could you?"
.It was easy Conan replied Because you were out
DINNEEN WON 81 OR MORE games four occasions.
but his greatest year in 1908 when the American and
National Leagues met in the first World Series 1t
affair between Boston and the Pitts
burgh Pirates with Dinneen winning three times and Cy
AlYoung teammate twice Two Of Dinneens wins
shutouts 6to-3 victory and In nth effort
Bill was Philippe, .54 Philippe who was
almost pitching stan for the Pirates also
three games he outnumbered to /, BY Dnneen
F&And Young.
MI Although Dnneen 81 games that whereas
Young Big Bill the pitching star Of that
SERIES which triples" At Pittsburgh the
park small and the crowds large that placed
lust outside the ned made almost any fly ball ground
rules three-bagger
In the games at Pittsburgh total Of II triples
we're hit dozen by the neither the ropes
Honus Wagner bothered Dnneen For the immortal Wagner
it dreadful playof for the National Leagues top hit
ter with ass batted only and the longer the
In his last at also committed In
for 90 years Roger Pecinpaugh Of the Senators finally
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