Show FF seeing big league ai L by BILLY EVANS Sport big league umpire and genered mana manager er of the cleveland xa indian n s the ability to produce ft a snippy comeback isa la n valuable asset to anyone but especially Is it valuable on tte tle tt tl e diamond the player who has a ready retort in his system lives a 0 fairly peaceful alf life the one ona who Is in a fair way to become miserable especially if he ha Is thin skinned chinned tommy connolly dean of the amerlean american league umpires Is a roan man who takes tabes his work very seriously and shows it but this terribly bly earnest mien of ills hla belles the waggish tern te in that to la connollyy Conn ollya ollys off the held field Is constantly being kidded for his seriousness pans take great delight in pleading with him to smile tommy lives near natick mass Uasa and so Is virtually a bostonian Dos one day while working a game in boston he had been forced to call a number of costly ones against the red sox tie the I 1 game was close and every ono one of the decisions hurt the crowd kept after him incessantly where was his civic pride calling all those decisions decusio ns against the home team ne ough tto bo be ashamed of himself run out of town and more of the same enroe As connolly and I 1 were walking oft off the told field after te ie game as usual wearing that grave mask of his a fan leaned over the rolling and intercepting connolly inquired tommy dont you ever smile conno connolly ity who was just ahead of me halted batted still serious as aa ever be S 0 4 4 tom connolly am I 1 supposed to then did ye ever see the villain in a show smile 7 washington was playing in cleveland walter Jo linSon was opposed by cy falkenberg the year previous falkenberg had won ten straight games for cleveland after a most moat remarkable mark comeback to the majors and his team had every reason to count on him strongly cut but this year he had been going badly at the time the washington team came to cleveland waivers were pending on him now the process of asking waivers on oa a player Is a secret one usually and as a rule the player involved know much about abaft it until he be gets his railroad tickets ticket on this particular lay day falkenbery Falken bere beri had been going very well the eighth inning came along and found cleveland in the lend lead and falkenberg mowing the opposition down dowa with such regularity that some fan yelled to balm well cyl cy tt it looks as though stick around a couple of weeks more without waivers being asked GrI fIlth was coaching coach lne at third and he heard the remark two meni menA were on base and johnson a good hitter was was at the bat cupped his hands to his mouth theres a guy that knows some inside stuff cy he called softly to falkenberg in a confidential tone just between you and me the cleveland team did ask calv ers on you the other day and im the only one who refused to let go of you he paused to let the words sink in 1 but after this games over he be continued im going to w waive etive and be on your way to the minor leagues by this time falkenberg was lean lug half way over to third base in hla his anxiety to catch every one of words so disconcerted did he be become pome that he be forgot himself and grooved h a fast fart one for or johnson who smacked it up against the right field wall wal and broke up a perfectly good ball game and griffith was a good prophet not long afterwards Falken falkenbery beri was in the minors whenever I 1 write anything about walter johnson I 1 am reminded of what the washington tan fan said to bill dineen dineen and I 1 had been beef umpiring one of walters games in washington a n typical johnson game in that tt it was close and all the breaks went against him bim after the game some fan yelled at dineen as we were passing the stand s say hill in jahnson lanson must musi have had an awful lot of stuff d day bihy Vt ihy naked dineen n ch atwi y yu you u map missed sed so many r and ami despite ills ready gitil had nothing to I 1 wiy ny ati till boll S |