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Show UMPIRPS BERTH HOT ROSE-LINED .-s "Bug" Holllday says: "I played ball for fifteen years and never knew what there was In umpiring a game until I tried It As a player, I thought some of the ordeals or-deals I went through with were tough, but as an umpire I have found that they were comparatively mild. Aa aa umpire I have stood for more than I ever dreamed that I would, and as an umpire I have come to the realisation of conditions in baseball that I had no idea existed. "That the game was as full cf petty politics aa It Is and that managers and owners of clubs would resort to means which can only be placed in the category of connivery and Intimidation to win games I would not have believed were I not made aware of It by my own experience. experi-ence. . "For instance, take 'a case at Boston. Tinker, the shortstop for Chicago, abused me in the vilest language which his brain could conceive and his tongue utter. I put him out of the game and in compliance compli-ance with the rules reported hint to the president He was not punished. He ba. came aware that he was not to be punished pun-ished the very next day and that afternoon after-noon repeated to me all that he had aaid the day before." |