| Show PRESIDENT lYNCH I AND HIS UMPIRES He Likes Billy Evans and Wishes There Were Eight Like Him Now ow York July 27 President Tom Torn Lynch as He bo sits in the tho headquarters of f tho the National league on the four tour fourteenth floor of tho St SL James building doe does oe not look the tho part of or tho the czar and tyrant that some of ot the tho players have havo pictured him him His coat and vest are al at always ways was orr and almost always ho he is deep In n business for his work Is heavy Do you know ho he asked looking up suddenly from his work that I 1 have havo solved that umpire baitinG proposition At least I 1 am pretty sure that I have Look Ook here hero and Lynch held hold up a groat mass of letters Know what those these letters otters are all about Nothing at all except the reports sent to me roe by the tho umpires of the tho terrible language some of or the players have havo used to them in fl ho tho the field this year I got sick lck of get ting ing them thom sick of thinking the play la laor ore erg or would still go on with this sort of thing year In and year out when they hey the knew they would be suspended for every eer offense often of Suddenly It occurred to me rue that if it I could touch the tho players pockets I could stop this foolishness So I noti led fled each cacti or of the eight club owners that hat hereafter when a player was benched for using profane or indecent language on the field he would be sue sus suspended Indefinitely La Lo and behold I have hae not had b d a complaint from an umpire since Ince See he the the point Tho The club owners owner are aro not oot going to pay a mans salary Indefinite ly 17 y when a man Is sitting on the bench where he has bas put himself by b his own misconduct What I 1 am pretty sure happened after my notice wont went out was that he tho club owners told their men to be good and told them so in no uncertain way ay Far be bo it from rom mo me to want a player to o be a mollycoddle I dont care if It he lie gat up after alter being declared out ut a abase abase abase base and yells It I out That shows he Is la in tho the game and trying to o win But Dut It is I the tho men who follow rollo the Ute umpire up and call him bar room names that I am after and that I in intend tend ond to get got This Thill task of ot building up a staff of if umpires is II a tremendous lug ng It moans mean throe three or four years ears of hard lard work vork Why h umpires have hae fl t tto to o behave as well as the tho players One of the men mon on my staff was sharply criticised by the papers here hero one day That afternoon he ho marched over oer In front of ot the press pross stand and bawled out the Ule reporters Then I 1 did a little bawling out myself and when I got through brough Mr Umpire was Iii 26 poorer than when I began What V hat I would like lIko to have hae Is a staff of ot eight men Just like Billy Dill Evans Bvans There Theres s II a man who vho reflects credit on baseball |
