Show PANORAMA OF BASEBALL Pictorial History of National N Game I e ec ev v c II I I The other picture in this article dates from 1850 this one is from 1855 In those five years the umpire got rid of enough dignity to let him bend forward but that seems to be about all al That looks a pretty good sized crowd in in the background d for those th days ys doesn't it When the Wore a T o Hat Instead of ofa a Mask We prese present here some es es of the umpire showing how the de development development de- de of the national game was indelibly stamped upon his features When the papers of old w wire re scornfully scornfully scorn scorn- fully reproaching the tho ball bal play player r for hl hi his professionalism the umpire In InI Ina ina a I frock coat and top hat hatS was upholding up up- hol holding the gentlemanly aspects of the he game ame He was doing more than tha he as was keeping keep a safe distance dis distance dis- dis tance tance tY from any a to his hat from the tl tt fly ball o lt umpire umpire umpire um um- um- um pire in days of ot old was statuesque statuesque- and had an eye to 4 07 pose The BeadIe Beadle Beadle Bea Bea- dle dIe Dime Baseball Pla Player Plater er for 1860 waxed eloquent About bout him The Th words are those of Father Chadwick Chad- Chad wick The position t n o of ot an umpire Is an honorable one 1 hOt but t its duties dutes are anything thing but agreeable as ItIs it itIs itis is next o 0 an an impossibility to give entire satisfaction to all al parties partes concerned In II a match match But In the the days of ot Sheridan ay and Dilly Billy Evans umpiring has reached a scientific point where whee their decisions are like le iron In the old Knickerbocker score scorebooks books you will wi find fr frequent quent marginal notes ag against a players player's name name name- name fined fined by the umpire This was way back baci in 1845 showing that wha whatever ever temper the umpire umpire um um- pire may have haye is a traditional One and much nee needed d in tight places I Iol where his opinion differs from that of ol a player to tile the extent of heated collar colar an ansi and strong language Anti And And there there- is a moral stamina n needed eded fo for forthe the th umpire when the grandstand disagrees with wih him lim and tile the tle world Is one great grea enemy and a a. a seer jeer eer There is a n now famous amous remark of the of ot baseball Judge I Ken saw Mountain ta Landis to the effect arh that he tie would nol not h have made a good umpire because it required re required required re- re too much of or the Judicial temper Put yourself in his place The umpire has at least two hundred hun hun- dred i to make In te the course drel of two hours and and he he has to o make them on momentary evidence for a slide to base waits watts for no man mal It I Illde must have been ben easier casler In the theold old days where the sport was not so swift and the tho umpire the umpire had time to stroke his whiskers lift his tP hat bat sC ch his head In thought and then placing his hand picturesquely on his hip with wih one foot poised on ona ona a a. a chair say in lii dulcet tones tone tones tones-so so that the tho girls In their crinolines on the lawns of oj the Elysian Fiel Fields s might hear Out hear out I No Noone one has found the man whose name could go down f n the annals as' as tho first umpire but i 1 I was Father Pathe Fa Pa- athel a the ther thel Chadwick who wrote hi his I primer Copyright 1923 1023 in U. U S S. and Great Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- Britain by North American I served paper Alliance Alance JAI rights re re- re I I OLD TOMORROW OLD OLD ING INC f |