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Show EMSLIE AN ARBITER TWENTY-NINE YEARS Famous Umpire First Handled Indicator in Parent League. Fans Chide Bob About His Wig and Tell Him He Is Blind as a Bat, but He Continues to Hold His Own With Best of Them. One of the pleasing bits of information informa-tion announced from the National league offices last winter was the statement state-ment from John Heydler, president of che league, that Bob Emslie would bo retained as a regular umpire in the coming season. A few years ago old Boh was only a substitute, but bis work has been so successful during the last two seasons that HeydleF did well in putting him back on the regular staff. They may chide Bob about his wig. writes Frederick G. Lleb, and tell him he is "as blind as a bat," but just the same old Bob continues to hold his own with the best. The season of 1019 marks Emslle's twenty-ninth successive year as a National Na-tional league umpire, as he came into the league on August 19, 1891. On August Au-gust 19, 1916, the National league had quite a celebration in honor of his twenty-fifth National league birthday. Emslie is a Canadian and was born in that extremely virtuous city of Guelph, Ontario, on June 21, 1861. Later in life Mr. Emslie removed himself him-self and all his earthly belongings to the lovely little city of St. Thomas. Canada, where he now resides. It was many, many seasons ago that Emslie was first heard of in baseball. Along in the late seventies a young hurler was making a great reputation as an expert in making a baseball curve and curve in a very, deceptive manner. Emslie soon gained recognition recogni-tion as one of the best pitchers in Canada, which, of course, was not saying say-ing much, for there were few hurlers of class residing within the domains of Queen Victoria at the period. BOTH NAMED RALPH j !; By an odd coincidence, Sei- i ! hold, the young Athletic pitcher, 2 I; has the same name as old Socks i !; Seybold, the hard-hitting right I u fielder of the Athletic champions j j! of 1902 and 1905. Old Sock is t ! Ralph Seybold and the young ? ;! flinger's name also is Ralph. J |