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HANS WAGNER SELECTS AN
ALL-AMERICAN SET OF UMPS
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Evans, Emslie, O'Day, Klein
And Rigler Are Chosen As
- Greatest American Umpires
• ■*!* Sy HANS WAGNER
1 For my all-American selection of j
umpires j have decided that five
•f'^ould be the right number. I have
selected them from all I saw during
ji my 30 or more years In professional
» baseball. Here they are:
Billy Evans. Bob Emslie, Hank j
O’Day, Bill Klem, Cy Rigler.
w>*That would be most too many for;
: world's series. In fact 1 had in- j
; r tended to pick out four, but the ,
^ more I figured the more I made up
my mind that it would be unfair to j
leave out a single one of those.
I’ve heard of umpires selecting the
best ball players, but this is the
• ’first time I’ve heard of a ball player
’’ selecting umpires. It only goes to
; show that we all get a little mellow
K. when our hair gets gray and we
: think about things. I don’t believe
U there is one of those umpires who
« ’ dver made a decision in his life that:
j he didn’t think exactly right.
*! Hank O’Day and Bill Klem, for
stance, don’t believe there were
; ever any close decisions.
1 ‘‘They’re either out or they ain’t,” i
| fays O’Day.
