Show I P r j s Hold Power to Keep i i Baseball F fee I rom Gamblers amblers and Dont Don't Like Em but as a hole ahole holen 4 Pm Ern Ve e gide Ride They're Honest and a Clean Bunch n I of Sports i 11 pl By Dy FRANKLIN D. D MORSE fact that while charges of gambling throw- throw I It II is a V crooked practices have havo from time to time been other ff gm aDd d baseball players rs no flo scandal in this connection hasL hasa has vf g with th the umpires t m L i a o 1 nn that the thc op opportunities the thc umpire has au U U way or the V tte thi I. I aI n onO uble 6 and fret fre- fre 40 r rt to the w which come t II I oJe 10 0 Further Further- 1 could his t empire through a game ame 50 ot of der de- de 4 r o old old ld tie t rood good tad trad arid and a to topI hi r I of don could bt be put over pI a bail or OF a aI lj fI lilli of a u one batter Is 15 tar far I UikI U u tOt not make Any peI pre pe I jd ul one such but I It just I. I I. I was vas made In the total up UI th sum atter Ill to 0 the 0 D ou handicaP wm M W. te a Wf w. w lt It u could coul be be remembered employed I II Wll I I 0 minute of the tho game k Si r bIt II fAvored I team tum was wu at bat J t 1 w would set get et all the best a favored team turn was In t I. the It Jt would heIs be he of It I w nell kl lb h. h be but best 0 f. f hi in this way the Is t IIII Heber J would be under aIU a alB zed If lub Jb lB need never be lifted IU that many umi um- um question ti II 11 iiI CO l we lecome com 10 to unpopular In I i UTI i in rV iV tf of ef their decIsions lon I ha t they jaste I their Jobs quit w HI fw forced d to 0 Wll kr or r ot Dot they were Indulging tei S practices lattices never has been t. t 51 Hh h here are hun hun- i ready rUdy to lo say f who are art was as not square tit lit t n r r that rn man n are areli of or unpopular decisions Ir tbt ik I li I. wand bound to be th case casc caser r t I to SO ferocious as asla asI ur II I la contests attended by ri aust nf ef rooters A I proportion of at these thue undoubtedly are I wron wrong Some of or them are obviously so even to the favored side aide but usually ally the blunder is ascribed to an error of Jud judgment m nt or defective sight Thomas Connolly Connoll dean of ot the AmerIcan American Amer Atner- ican lean league umpires made a namo for lor himself during one of tho worlds world's atties serica se series se- se ties rica battles between the Giants and the Athletics at park nine years ago ao lie Ho de declared a New York runner safe lIae at the tho home plate on a play that could have hae been decided the other way Vay without prompting hostile comment com corn ment It merit n wa was so very close The decision decision deci deci- sion Sian practically won the game Iame for or the Giants although after atter it was all over Christy Mathewson M n was waa quoted as ns sayIng saying sayIng say- say Ing that In his opinion Connolly's verdict verdict ver vet dict dIet should havo have been rendered against McCraw's McGraws team team and and Christy was playing playing play play- ing for w. w i This ThIa Is t. an excellent example of at the I scores of or opportunities which constantly constant constant- I ly Iy arc are presenting themselves to umpires urn um I pires In the event that they have any Inclination to be lie dishonest To their everlasting credit no such Imputation ever has been lodged n against them them them- at least not openly so far as tho the writer writ writ- er Cr can remember at tho present mame mo mo- me ment n t. t The umpire has a difficult path to tread No matter how sincere and conscientious ho he may be ho Is likely at any moment to hear the roal roar of ot robber hurled buried at him by thousands of throats Fortunately for tor him however how how- ever er the great American baseball bl public public pub pub- lic lie dO doesn't m mean an one half it says nays and the umpires umpire probably know and lina re remember remember remember re- re member this |