Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-17 | Page 20 | Young Millionaire Turns to Umpiring in Effort to Discover Which Ball Club He Should Purchase

Young Millionaire Turns to Umpiring in Effort To Discover Which Ball Club He Should Purchase NEW YORK, FshC 17 (IN8 You wouldn't auppoee that aa embryonic young millionaire would take up baseball umpiring, with all 1U atUndant headaches and abuse, as a career, would youT And yet that Is exactly what Bill Hay, a weelthy youngster of Barrington, N. H, Is doing. In a letter to ths New York Ysnkeea today he revealed that hs bad accepted a job a unvpira In the Piedmont league. The Yankee Yan-kee know th young man well and favorably. For two or three year he has keen making trip here and there with th Yank, paying hi own way, while trying to learn all he could about th gam. Hs Is 6 feet 1 Inche and weigh more than 300 pound. He had ambition te be a ball player, but the Yank assured hint be would a, : never make the grade. Than he visited all the Yankee farms at his own expense to learn the business busi-ness end of ths gams. And now hs haa taksn op umpiring. um-piring. Ths Yankee management believes th young man Intend U buy a minor league ball club i as a (tart and what better chance could he hav to discover th best buy than In traveling circuit as umpire I