| Show Seeing ee w wee Big League v V By BILLY EVANS Sportswriter Big League Umpire and nd General Mana Manager er of the Cleveland Indians Indian In One of the tile things that contribute to the umpires umpire's unpopularity is his habit habit hab hab- it of putting plu players ers out of ot the game Much as I disliked to do It It was frequently necessary If 11 I would maintain maintain main main- tain discipline on the thc ball baH field field and and the maintaining of discipline Is one of ot the umpires umpire's many jobs In the summer of pf 1007 1907 my second season In the majors an nn Incident came up in a ball game that for a awhile awhile awhile while threatened a n lot of trouble for tor forme forme me and find as aa Hughie Jennings was wag the cause canse of ot It all nU I had to forget that he and I were fellow and give gi him the well known gate Jennings Jennings Jennings Jen Jen- tried tired to put one over on me but he happened to catch me looking and and out he lie went Th The n Philadelphia n. n n Athletics u. u were n n. n n u. u playing at Detroit that day and the game went into the ninth Inning a tie Charley Schmidt Detroit catcher was vas wason wason vason on first base with two out as ns the result of ot a single Then came Charley OLeary O'Leary Tiger second sacker with a terrific drive e to left leCt field I knew aa M soon as the ball hull was hit that It would enable Schmidt to score with the winning winning win win- ning run so I kept careful watch on all nil the bases as ns Charley tore for homo home lie lee touched second all right and then thon with plenty of ot time to spare he tae cut third by about two feet Philadelphia's shortstop Monte Cross rushed 1 over to tn mo ml m excitedly 1 v vv u u Did you see him Bill Did you see him cut the bag Of Ot course I had hod seen It It but It was not my place to say anything There was nothing for me to do until a play had been made And so Schmidt kept kepton on going The fans yelling like Uke wild Indians started to stream out of ot the park and the Tigers began hiking biking for forthe forthe forthe the clubhouse Now Jennings was con coaching ching at third base pulling base-pulling pulling grass of ot course and yelling his famous ee And Jennings Jennings Jen Jen- s had seen Charley Schmidt cut third and he had good reason to susA sus sus- t-r t w F If r r 1 1 J f. f f. f j J Af oJ A r J 4 y Y l' l N ftH ci fAS Hugh Jennings that I had seen It too So when the outfielder threw the ball In In Jon Jon- Ings lags Instead of letting the Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia player take the throw ran onto the diamond caught the ball himself and ran run for the clubhouse Well there was a pretty kettle of fish The fans all nIl leaving and swarming swarmIng swarm swarm- ing onto the field thinking Detroit had won The Tigers ligers themselves all b beat at It for the showers And Hughie Jennings had the ball hall In play tucked safely away In I his 3 pocket There was wasa a fine situation Monte Cross was crazy mad What the I In-I h 1 do you call that he Are tIAre you ou going to let him get getaway getaway getaway away with that going to get away with anything Monte Well Well what are you g going to do about It What are you going to do about It IU I countered Im not playing In Inthis Inthis inthis this ball game am I n Did you see him run away with that ball baU Sure what do you want me to todo todo todo do Give me a ball Monte was mad clear through but he was smart enough to know Imo what was necessary to retire Charlie Schmidt at third I pulled a ball out of my pocket and gave It to him He touched the bag All AU right I announced mans mansout mansout out The run doesn't count Now lets let's finish the game Well sir that was a Some of ot the Detroit players not yet off the field had seen what I had done and an soon I was surrounded by an nn angry gesticulating crowd ero of ot them In the midst of at all the argument Jennings came out of ot the clubhouse retreat In center field Innocently demanding to know what It was all about the trouble What's the tho trouble This was the last straw Trouble enough I snapped And you caused it all Just for Cor being smart and getting getting get get- ting me Into this hole you can enn go right back to the thc clubhouse clubhouse and and this time stay there Im I'm going to clear the field and finish this game And that I did The crowd was o oa my neck but fortunately Detroit won out in extra innings otherwise a pOlice police police po pO- lice C escort or ambulance might have been heen necessary for me c 1930 Doll Boll Syndicate |
