Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1915 — Connolly Lauds Keeler. [ARTICLE]

Connolly Lauds Keeler.

Tom Connolly, the veteran American league umpire, thinks Willie Keeler the best man who ever swung a bat. “No player ever had an eye like Keeler.” sayi Connolly. “If a ball was an inch outside Keeler wouldn’t go for it The umpires naturally came to have a lot of respeet for Keeler’s judgment particularly as he never kicked. I remember in one game a catcher protested that the umpire had missed a third strike on Keeler. Tim Hurst was the umpire, and he wouldn’t listen to the kick at aIL It must have been a bad one,’ said Urn, ‘Willie didn’t swing at it’ ”