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Show Umpires Ride in Taxicabs Umpires in the Tacilie Coast league will ride in taxicabs from the trains to hotels and from the hotels to the trains next year, according to Harry A. Williams, ' president of the Coast league. "The umpires have to carry so much baggage that I have decided to allow them taxieab expenses next season." says Williams. "You know that an umpire hasn't many friends." Started in 1903 The : world series was the twenty, twen-ty, seer. ml of the annual struggles for baseball supremacy between the pen-! pen-! mint wmners of the National and American leagues. The first of these : series was played back in 10O3. when : the Boston Red Sox defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates by five games to j three. With the exception of lfM j tiie series has been played annually. |