Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1914 — FINES PLASTERED ON BURKE [ARTICLE]

FINES PLASTERED ON BURKE

Tigers’ Coach Relates _Tale of Reversed Decision in Kansas City- . Milwaukee Game. Being plastered with a fine by an umpire never caused ‘.‘Jimmy’’ Burke, the Tigers’ coach, any worry. “In my years on the baseball field I dare say I have been fined sl,000,” declared “Jimmy” the other day. "I believe I have been fined more than any player ever in professional ranks. I was once handed a SIOO plaster by an umpire in Milwaukee*. “It was like this: . “I was managing the Kansas City team and we were performing before 7,000 or 8,000 persons one Fourth of July, Mike Cantillon was manager of the Brewers and along about the sixth inning, with the score mighty close, two Brewers were on the bases when a pitched ball grazed the batsman’s club and rolled to the stands. “The two runners came home and I rushed in protesting. I pointed out that the ball hit the batsman and the umpire moved the men back. Just then Cantillon ran on to the field and declared that it was a wild pitch and the ball had never hit the bat “The umpire hesitated and Cantillon shouted that the people would certainly kill him If the two runners were not allowed to score. The umpire changed his decision and told me that the ball had struck the catcher’s mitt —and not the bat. “I raved, tore my hair, kicked up tbe sod and carried on in other wayß, but to no avail. “Finally I led my team from the field and then —there was a riot. “The league officials upheld the umpire and fined me,, I had to pay. And that wae one fine I didn’t deserve."