Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1914 — Connolly's Diplomacy. [ARTICLE]

Connolly's Diplomacy.

A Washington story Is to the following effect: “That Walter Johnson has exceptional stuff on his delivery this year was indicated by remarks of an extraordinary nature which Umpire Tom Connolly, who umpired behind the plate, made to Johnson recently. Walter was not exactly satisfied with some of Connolly’s decisions on balls and strikes, and after one inning he remarked to Connolly as he was going to the bench that he was missing on his decisions in some Instances, and Connolly replied: 'Well, maybe I am, Walter, but I never saw your balls perform In this manner. They are taking all sorts : of jumps and waves when they come toward the plate and they are awfully hard to judge, let alone to hit’ Walter, who never has been known to make a kick on an umpire’s decisions, made no reply, but smilingly to the bench.”