Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1915 — RECRUIT UMPIRE IS A GIANT [ARTICLE]

RECRUIT UMPIRE IS A GIANT

Qsminick Mullaney Is 6 Feet, 3 Inchee Tall. Weigh* 225 Pounds—Native of Kentucky. American league players who hare thoughts of mixing things up with Dominick J. Mullaney, latest addition to Ban Johnson’s staff of umpires, will think twice before doing so. He has the build of a white hope, weighing 225 pounds and being six feet, three Inches tall Mullaney is a native of the Blue Grass state, having been horn In Louisville, November 9,1877. Nineteen years later he played his first professional ball under John McCloskey, present Red scout, at Dallas, in the Texas league. After that Mullaney paßtimed in the Virginia, South Atlantic, Southern, Blue Grass and Three-Eye leagues and American association, among the clubs he was connected with being Rock Island, Bloomington, Columbus, Savannah, Montgomery and Jacksonville. He was the leader of the Floridans for four years, and they won the pennant under his direction in 1908. Mullaney also managed the Montgomery club of the Southern league and the Savannah team of the South Atlantic league.

Among the famous players Mullaney has been in the same leagues with are Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Nap Rucker, Joe Jaekson, Jimmy Archer, Mordecal Brown, Harry Sallee, the late Addle Joss and all the members of the Delahanty tribe with the exception of the lamented Ed. When Mullaney was an able athlete first base was his position. His highest batting average was In 1901, when he hit .313 for the Rock Island club of the Indiana-lowa-Illinois league. For Montgomery of the Southern league, in 1908, he hit .300. Mullaney umpired in the Texas league last year. He also officiated In all the spring exhibition games played in Jacksonville by the Athletics and other big league clubs.