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Show UMPIRE JOLTS TOM LYCSI H Humorous Incident In Which Applicant H For Job Spoke Too Quickly. H TT Is really funny how many men 1 want to umpire during thr winter Hf Vme." said President Tom Lynch of tho Hf National league recently. "Hardly a H lay passed last winter but that some B amplro dropped into my offlco to tell H .Tie what A. mlHlake I made by not hlr- H 3ng him, whllo tho malls generally H brought a letter or two from some urn- H plre telling mc how good he was. The v , funniest fcllov I have ever had to H t deal with slnco becoming president of H .the National league was a big, husky chap by the namo of James Calliope H ' Biirke. H "He called on xno early last wlntrjr H1 and saJd he wa? ready to take Cmslle's H Job If Bob retired. Ho impressed on H . mo the .fact that bo. had been umpiring B minor league ball for a dozen years. When I commented that It was strango his ability had remained undiscovered for bo long a tlmo ho remarked that he must have had a bad dny when the bcouta were watching him. I tried to Impress on him tho fact tha he didn't have a chance. "One day he dropped into my oftlce with a letter of recommendation from ono of the managers in tho American league. I told him it was Btrangc that that manager didn't get him a Job on tho Amorlcan league staff, to which ho gave some foolish answer. This fill happened before tho National" league election of omcefn. 4lThe day prior tcthe National league meeting ho came tup and was quito an- r ' . ' f |