Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-02-14 | Page 12 | Scrappy Ump is Retained by American Loop

Scrappy Ump Is Retained by American Loop CHICAGO. Feb. 14 JP) George Moriarity, the original "man who wouldn't die on third base." has fooled the baseball world again. Ever aince big George forgot his poetry and official dignity long enough to fight It out with Manager Lew Fonaeca and three White Sox players at Cleveland last Memorial day, tha tip haa been out that he would be among the missing from the 1931 American league umpires' staff. Instead. Richard Nallln and William Guthrie were released, George sticks on the Job. One of tha real romanticists of modern day basebsli, Moriarity calmly absorbed his punishment an official reprimand and sua pen-lon pen-lon for that fight and aet about to win back into the hearts of the American league club owners. His poetry and baseball gospel speeches became ao good that President Will Harridge finally hired him to make a wide winter tour of the country, similar to the kind he used to make over a lyceum circuit to aay some good words about the naUonal pastime. pas-time. Those club owners, opposed to him at the close of the 1V32 season, came to his support for reappointment reappoint-ment as an umpire, although they Insisted In-sisted on "new blood" within tha umpiring ranks for 1833.