Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-12-20 | Page 11 | Silk O'loughlin Dies at Boston |

Type	issue
Date	1918-12-20
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
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Article Title	Silk O'loughlin Dies at Boston
Type	article
Date	1918-12-20
Paper	Ogden Daily Standard
Language	eng
City	Ogden
County	Weber
Page	11
OCR Text	Show I oo SILK O'LOUGHLIN DIES AT BOSTON BOSTON, Dec. 20. Francis "Silk" O'Laughlin, famous as an American league umpire, died at his apartment here today after a short illness of influenza in-fluenza and pneumonia. O'Laughlin had umpired for the American league since its organization and ho had long been rated as one of the famous figures in the baseball world His "ball tub," his long drawn : out "s-t-r-I-k-e," and snappy "fould-cr," 1 are known the country over. These ' and a series of other exclamations ac- 1 corapanied by gestures Indicating a player as safe or out at base were pe- culiar to O'Laughlin. He was born in Rochester, N. Y., 4S years ago. In : 1902 ho was nppolnted by Ban John- ! sou as an American league umpire.
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