Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1919 — UMPIRE O’DAY RANKLES REDS [ARTICLE]

UMPIRE O’DAY RANKLES REDS

Squelches Cincinnati Players on Bench When They Question Some of His Decisions. Those who set out to kid Hank O’Day take upon themselves a man’s job, for the veteran umpire always retains a firm grasp on his goat and usually is able to silence his critics with a few well-chosen words. At one stage of a recent game at the Polo grounds the players on the Cincinnati bench began to cast aspersions cm Hank’s judgment of strikes and balls, but they were stopped short. Holding up* the game for an instant, O’Day turned to the Reds’ dugout and said, with just a tinge of sarcasm in his voice: “If you guys can call ’em any better than I can come out, here and try It. It seems to me that if your eyesight was as good as you seem to think, you’d be in the game with the regular players instead at sitting on the bench.” Whereat silence hung like a paD over the visitors’ rendezvous.