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Show - f ' Motor Car Magnate Quits "Big Ten" I . ,,,,-, ,, ., jTM-wW l , , i .I, ,(W,WW1 I km f Refere Eldrldj IA tlon during a oonfereno gam. ' jl pLARENCH B. BLDR1DGE, aalea J manager of th Rao Motor Car Company, Laming, Mich, baa announced an-nounced nil resignation aa a "Big Tan" football raferaa on account of the pressure of work. Mr. Eldrldge began hla aporta earear at tba aga of II aa aporta writer for tba Dally Reporter. Three Rivera. Mich. ' He became a "bug" on sport ntlea and atatlatlca. and, on entering tba Unlverelty of Michigan In 1104 at the age of II he became aporta eorreapondent for Detroit and Chicago papera and quickly attained an unuaual reputation reputa-tion aa football referee and baee-ball baee-ball umpire. In ltd he umpired hla flrat profeaalonal baaebaU game In the South Michigan League and followed thla vocation from then until till with that organlaatlon. tba Southern League, the Central League and aa relief urapl e with the American League In 1914 and lll. During the latter aervlce he : waa alao practicing law la Chi-, cngo. '' Mr. Eldrldge began refereelng college football gamea In 107 and haa been extremely acUve la thla work In the Western ConTerenoe from 1(2 until the present He baa been with Reo for - thirteen years and haa been aalea manager approximately one year. He haa been aporta writer for a doaen of the largest papera In th United SUtea. Mr. Eldrldge la one of the moat aggressive and progressive ex- . , ecutivea in the motor world, e.uall- I ties that have grown tbrough, hla long connection with outdoor com- : petitlve aporta. ' ' ( " -" ' ., - ' ' " .. '. |