Show UMPIRE SHERIDAN QUIT BECAUSE EYES ARE BAD john r sheridan the american league ump irei who suddenly an bounced his intention of quitting the game just before the contest between washington and new york recently told president johnson at chicago thit that th it his eyes are going back on him hin and that as he would have to wear game for good mr johnson to sent the umpire to an eye specia specialist lit and hopes that jaci jacl can be influenced to den urn um I 1 lire ire togs again an accident common lo 10 ball play ers started me on the don award path path of umpiring says bl erldean in youth I 1 aspire to be a ho d athlete and got along very nell ell i antil I 1 went to chattanooga ten i to play second base with a pig iron arm thit vs haq in the spring of 1885 1 I irly in the sea season seaon on they used the act I 1 test on the arm and it was a case of tin can for me they had pas passed ed the iron a ag in dixie henry grady the silver tongued ton statesman was ures president ident of the bouthern ou thern league at that time fi mut have tho my vo ce sounded ripe for the buness qs so h offered rne me a soft snap umpiring at 75 per month I 1 needed the money but had I 1 known then what I 1 kno v now I 1 would not have needed the money sometime a fellow can apt along without it however I 1 was a youngster far from my sunny california home and the 75 per looked good beffie I 1 got busy bugy I 1 was as assigned to macon ga as the society papers say and I 1 umpired ince then |