Show UMPIRE PUNCHES John J McCloskey Tells TeUs Good Story of Stormy Days in Coast League John McCloskey breaks Into the lime limelight limelight limelight I light as a n Joker once more inore During D a ahot ahot ahot hot air session one morning the talk switched to umpires No one OM panned anh d the They just spoke pok oi ot o the U e many trials besetting the th man thab who ho adopts au an career tat r rOne One point on which all hands agreed was that the umpire is loyal to his hla pro For Pot example le throe three seasons sul ago a tl foul tout tip tl smashed Ima the masK and atud the tM jagged Jn med wires cut a gash in itt Hank flank lace face It happened to be his mask At the hospital l Hunk hank insisted that the surgeon use red twine situ and tile Uta butch employed ed in covers on baseballs This sublime exhibition of o loyalty to tho thu cause impressed d the Cardinals No won dOt der d r Hank 1 ODay la lt a it great umpire they all itil said sald He lie cannot help it lug ing tu loyalty lo will laUd land a man on un top toll every time John Comes to Bat John J 3 McCloskey manager of thA Cardinals said ho lie know of at a 11 Case aasa whet where heto a another loyal 10 l ump had a b shade hado on Hank Ho Ht hopes hop Hank would not detect d tod a tl knock knuck lurking in the tha anecdote for tor nothing of ot the kind l ind was Intended In isai 1391 1 1 said s ld John I 1 managed th the Sacramento to team In the old California league ue Things wOre were w re breaking worse w than lIlan I rotten wood Along in lit August the team t was M about to tb neter peter out Tho llie financial backers buckers had quit and aud there thop was no iio morn mor money In tn sight My players ln rs worked with out bUt salary eatery u a le of weeks we k thinking times time might get Bet better Among tile the Ul hot hut bugs In at that th t time tinie was waR a 1 restaurant nt keeper kte cr He was stuck on th game To fo help us us out he lie gave tte ascii member r of ot the team a 11 meal m al ticket l on ora the restaurant r We could cat Mt while waiting for tor the clouds to roll 1011 by b and that tha helped h some sorno Feeling peevish about tin HIP Way W things were going gong 1 l tried to get even ven by sassing Jim Jhn McDonald the um urn umpire pire lre hi lu those days u s I t rl played t d center c field Jim Jim knew kU W ho ha couldn fine fino me lne because b there any an money y coming In Mac Muc says Jim to me ma m one oM afternoon youre going too tou far fat DOht Dont think for a that poverty po cuts any ny ice In this gamp game g mp This sassy conduct will wUl cost you OU some something s mo thing yet t 1 I gave the ump um the th laugh l ugh and told him I hind had lt d a it cinch Gets Macs Meal Ticket The next day I rushed In tn from the field to roar foar over a play lay at the lie th plate When I got close enough McDonald McDon ld without a word reached over lifted d tho the moal mant tick ticket ticket et at from the pocket of ot my baseball b s shirt drew dr w a n little punch and knocked 30 SO cents worth of ot beefsteak b o and onions onton out of ot m 10 mt ticket t It pains me m very v r much to td do this said bald Jim but duty Is duty Im letting you lote light this time Ume Dont do it again or lose 1080 a few t w pieces of pie pic picot Of ot course coUrS I was angry at the th time McCloskey went on oft Who b be bA behot hot hut In tn those thosS th S circumstances From l that day dllY on until the team blew up for fair fairI 1 I respected Jim Then I to ad nd admire admire mire a man whose hose fidelity commanded both admiration lt and respect res Mt Jim Mc Me McDonald McDonald Donald was a good umpire He knew his business |