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Show UMPIRING BALL GAME IS NO HAPPY CINCH Harry Gilbert Sat Behind Pitcher During Hot Game. Automobile Salesman Watched Prog-rets Prog-rets of Hirjhly Important Contest Whilo Sitting In Chair Un-usual Un-usual Incident Recalled. At Its Lent iiiujil ri nn hall tames In no It :t I ' rln. li, -i.e. lally In the minus. mi-nus. The world has hiunhe.1 ut htor-li'M htor-li'M how these ollii lals In the old days ii.-o.l to t.-nr at full speed for the fi-n. e 1: nil (limh It In 1111 effort to escape the nnry mohs. Consider thi' case of an umpire who s. l In u chair hehiml the pit. her and railed the tails nnd Mrikis. Harry (iill.rrt, an iiut..in..hile sale-man, once pi rforu.e.l -u. Ii an unusual feat. lie was In the Southern Mi.hipan h-:.;:ue at the time, ami was hadly hurt, h.-lnu- laid i;p nearly a week. Came a I. in -.-rlrs nt Ja. l;s..n, one re-iu!r:ii re-iu!r:ii e;.ert ih-.-i !..-, ami the president presi-dent a-ke, (iilh.-rt If he e.oildii't li.-lp h!m out. I'.oth teams n-r I to let (iill.rrt 8lt helila.l the slab, and there he stayed during the entire n ne Innings. He still eoii-iders It H stroke of K"od fortune for-tune that a line drive wasn't smashed his way. "If one hail rome I chui't know how I would have avoided It," lie says. I Hiring his entire experience with the league Cilhert never took to the fences onre, iilthnupli he admits he had some narrow escapes. He recalls one umpire who Miowod a world of nerve ut Jackson. "1 whs working the liases and he Hood hehlnd the catcher," Fays Gilbert. Gil-bert. 'The fnns were riding him fiercely. At last they bewail to tear down the screen. All umpires know what that Indicate. A churee of the fans' brigade. In other words. "He Flopped the game Instantly. Walking up to the box seats, he took off bis mask nnd faced them. " 'I'm not going to run away," he announced. an-nounced. 'I know I enn't lick a thousand thou-sand of you at once. But if you Insist, I'm ready to take you on one by one.' "The crowd quit and gave him a big hand, lie was a game one, all right." |