Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1915 — Umpire Bill Klem. [ARTICLE]

Umpire Bill Klem.

willful, deliberate and premeditated. He went one day to the office of the National league, and Mephistopheles, in she guise of John Heydler, thrust into his hands a bag of clubs. Klem would have pushed them away, but he was fascinated -by the gleam of a newly sandpapered niblick. “What if I should come up behind Helnie Zimmerman in a bunker,” thought Klem, and the conception so fascinated, him that he grasped the niblick still more tightly and went away carrying the bag bf clubs.