Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-09-23 | Page 2 | Umpire Jack Sheridan Retires

OWE JACK, wm REUS CHICAGO, SopL 22. Jack Sheridan, dean of tho American league umpiring staff, arrived in Chicago yosterday I with a plea to Peldent Johnson to T be relieved permanently from further" duties as an arbiter. Tne league president pres-ident acceded to Sheridan's wishes and presented him with the "medal of honor," tho first ever awarded to an umpire. It is .? handsome souvenir, given in consideration of Sheridan's long service. . Tho retired umpire expects to leave for California on Sunday to spend the winter Mr. Johnson said that while i Sheridan did not wish to umplro nny I moio, he would return frbm the coast ; next season and remain ill tho Atncrl-; Atncrl-; can league in an executive of managerial man-agerial capacity President Johnson declined to discuss any probable opening open-ing which Sheridan mlpht fill.