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Show Sometimes an umpire is forced to resort to drastic measures to silence a protrsl!ng athlete George Morlarty, American league umpire, was up against such a situation situa-tion one day last summer. A certain American league pitcher who throws nothing but strikes, if you would take his word for it. was doing the pitching. Ordinarily said pitcher is a mighty hard man to hit. This particular occasion oc-casion was one of his few off days. He was wild, and when he did manage man-age to get one over the batter would take all kinds of liberties with it At such times it IS always tho cue for the pitcher to alibi himself at the expense of the umpire. , Morlarty, who was umpiring balls and strikes, was displeasing tho pitcher pitch-er most of the afternoon The pitcher managed to win His game despite .the fac t that the opposing oppos-ing team made eight runs In the eighth inning, after Moriar-ty Moriar-ty had failed to call a certain batter out on strikes, the pitcher let the world know that he thought the umpiring um-piring was sour. "That is li you have missed on mo." he yelled. "How many '" asked Morlarty In a voice equally loud. "Fourteen." replied the pitcher. Then In a voice that carried all over the park. Morlurlty replied: "Somoono must have told you to say that, you can't count that far." oo |