Show seeing big league by BILLY EVANS sports riter BigLes bg agua gue umpire and gentral general manager of the th cleveland indians indian umpires are human and make mistakes in my coy long career I 1 know of only only one umpire who always insisted that ho he never made A mistake in ht his 13 life ile he was the late silk olaug hit one of the most colorful arbitrators that ever graced the game was one ot of the few umpires who had drawing dmm lna powers nt at the gate the fans liked to see him in notion action IM ilia famous strike tuli tuh will live forever tuh has hafl become an accepted substitute for two in everyday every day life aside from froin baseball had a remarkable voice and lie was proud 0 f it all umpires have their sensitive points silk was mighty fussy about abou t his vocal chords well I 1 do recall recal ithe the remark made by a certain star to silk ono one afternoon when lie he was suffering a trifle from hoarse ness the star who was it a pitcher was disagreeing with most of the afternoon on his judgment t of balls and strikes silk was peeved after he called one that particularly displeased the pitcher that worthy person said to if I 1 was you silk I 1 would see one of the best throat specialists in tile the cit city y just as soon as tile the game Is over why are are you so BO interested in my throat trouble simply because if you yop ever loss lose your voice you are arc through as an umpire its your only asset 1 silk was furious and in the next inning anxious to chase the fresh person he seized an incident that really merit ejection from the game but nevertheless sent the player to the showers anyway like all stories tt it went the rounds of the league any time a player for any reason wanted to depart from the game he made un silk kind remarks about silks voice being his only asset as an umpire sometimes I 1 doubted it but never was I 1 able to get silk to admit that he might have been wrong often I 1 won would id try to josh him along by telling him I 1 thought he missed a certain play that I 1 would never mention it if to anyone if he admits admitted e d tt it but I 1 aleays failed in ray nay efforts to pin down to the fact that tha t possibly he be might sometimes have been wrong was irish it Is hardly necessary to state that fact his bis name is sufficient never will I 1 forget geathe the delight silk took in one of tits hla favorite ejaculations to protesting players As tile the clancis Clan cys mccarthys McCar thys ON cnellis OKell ellis ls and burkes would cluster around silk and tell mm him how blind he was lie he would listen for a time and then with a wave of his arm that meant trouble would shout get out of here never missed one in my life too lute to start now the pope for religion fin for baseball both infallible that remark always drew the ire of the plaats but they went on their way because they knew that was the final ultimatum before chasing them showers that was his favorite line for handling ball players of irish extraction if after some decision silk perceived that among the players protesting his ruling were men bearing the name of schmidt mueller elder and others of german extraction he would listen for a time in evident disgust and then having heard enough lie would invariably say it if you follows fellows are not back in your position when 1 I 1 reach the plate all of you are through for the d day eky there any use of belig dut dutch ch if youre not dumb the ats and schneiders eldera uko like that expression but bliey knew it was silks anal ultimatum and that they had better be on their way in handling out hla his line of repartee silk overlook a thing if a player bad a certain outstanding fault he never foiled failed to remind him of it when some athlete with a poor batting would strenuously protest to a strike he would usually squelch tile the roan man thusly so I 1 kicked the one eh well you sure have your nerve kicking on anything I 1 do I 1 happened to be looking at the batting averages this morning and you aint hitting your weight get tn in there and hit the pitcher tv ly supposed to be the one fooling you not me 6 by br the tb bli syndicate eradicate toe |