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Show MANAGER BILL DONOVAN DECLARES THAT ! FORMER DALL PLAYERS FAIL AS UMPIRES j lA V' 'V a UM.rur - -, rg&orosnY- Bill Donovan and Some Major League Umpires. Bill Donovan, now managing fhe Jersey City team, has something to say about umpires. Among his observations ob-servations are the. following points: "The ex-player is a bad umpire because be-cause he is always figuring plays out before they are completed. He knows what ought to happen on certain situations. situ-ations. And be makes up his mind in advance on his decisions. Is Thinking Ahead. "He cannot help this. A player is always thinking ahead of the play. This is so even as he is sitting on the bench watching the game. "When a veteran player gets to be an umpire, therefore, he cannot, be ex pected to change his complete baseball base-ball thinking process. He can not de so. And he is invariably a bad umpire. um-pire. "It is a mistake to make umpires out of veteran players. Young men should be secured. When they get on in years they should be replaced as ball players play-ers are. Umpiring Is Mediocre. "Under the present scheme of things the umpiring in the major leagues is mediocre. I'll bet there are not five umpires on the combined staffs of the National and American leagues who can read a newspaper without wearing eye-glasses." |