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Show LI BOB' BULES 1 23SEASDKS ' tflie, Oldest Umpire in 'Major Leagues, Still Going Strong. M, been a National Iohru 'onty-.nuc years, and expert, nrM ear. , P" , -is mo'-; fans and pmyers f ''.H-'n-.l--- 11 t'a"'t l" t!l-W of th0 . he never has been c!icicn C".;; in a -orW ries. the only P,','i,c yeur at which 111 x 'orf T !'.',-.i-eH "ir. So-.uid-So.44 Aa a r.S,'MV Bob has nl"" ,h0 r'eas-1! r'eas-1! f,;s' oalle.l robber." "thief." ' fa fi',v other names oy a f a"!nni of both leagues. "re'1 (-term cent lias been calling f :' i Vrll-e ami de-islons at t.o ' hail eve keen cnoiitrli to please l"L, of4 the lcasuc and t'.ie board ff'i,:'-t drfw rm-lle Into hnsehal! ., f "I.,.. no: known. He was ''"y.,,"'.' Canada. June 21. 161. I1' ijfo "f the' a4 1,1 blopra- V nve,l to ft Thomas. Ontario. ,-r cue .laek Graney and spv-1't spv-1't '-Var to haseball. '''-Pt't ie hoe 10 heeonie a piieiipr f ' "e t'me UTS rolled around he 54, a name on the stubble fields " P., Haan'ton. Ontario, players ' .rVicned BoS to pitch for them t'rn job n the town as an ... f;:(.;n't. Emslie got J dol ar or r. Mck to his birthp.a. e to p tch i .am there in 1SS0. Two years -.. !., ,-ame into the State to pitch L jfrri;t dub of Camden, N. J., jftcritate league. And that change L V-'ie's real introduction to pro-"riinfjall. pro-"riinfjall. In the middle of the '" k o l"4 t1e Baltimore club of the " association grabbed him off I, cjrteii out on his major league J-.Vea meteor. He won seventeen peuty-one ptmcs. He copped "'' .4eV.r cs that ytar and lost only " sjle he d the opposition to a K.:-r-1 hits in practically every - ' "critics predicted a wonderful fnr Kcb. but two seasons later his i-iened under the strain of curv- -((ball and he quit the bi show as je: with the Philadelphia eiub in i r.ei to come back "w ith the To-ilr-frr.anonal league club, and then ;rjl:iern team, hut failed. A cou-14 cou-14 feasens later found him umpiring I international league. He worked ' i.V A. the next year and in 1 I I officiating in the Western league. 1 -jch cood work the old National , i ' i crabbed him. and there he has ' r.er since. ' I" years old and looks it. But :j fe'?rs can't kid him about going jeid n:an's home. He'll send a lot J stars to the bench before he's sent !i i terra himself. tt lived t'nro'"1! the umpiring days rj:h cntie little characters as the peat eater. John McGraw, Pat Te-icd Te-icd others of their type were ready ( down their gloves and fight at tan a miscalled strikp. This gives dope on his courage. If.sn'1 a distinctive "Strike Tun." .-If late Silk O'Loughlin's. to help -'en::on. He never has done a t yards around tb.e sacks -with Tv M does Oilie Chill. He has flg-lithe flg-lithe in the news columns, ex-I ex-I it the bottom of the National . Mv scores. t,-' i there you'll find his name for, v c t--:-e seasons day in and day out. - Hretimes tnice a day. |