Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1918 — SILENCE COS{?}S MURRAY $25 [ARTICLE]

SILENCE COS{?}S MURRAY $25

Simple Gesture With Bat Stirs Ire of Umpire Bill Klem—Crowd Took Up Argument Red Murray, the former Giant right fielder, is one of the silent men in baseball. While Murray is a believer in silence, still on one occasion he discovered that silence was more costly than a verbal outbreak, according to Billy Evans. Umpire Klem was the man behind the gun In the encounter with Murray. The outfielder was at bat in a pinch. He had three balls and one strike. Klem called the next ball delivered a strike, making the count three and two. Murray thought the ban was too high, and held his bat Oh a line with his head. The crowd took up the argument In loud tones Klem yelled at Morray: “How high was that strike?" Again Murray held his bat on a level vdth his head. “Well, since it was only that high the demonstration will only cost you 825. If it had beeti a couple of inches higher I would hav» made it