CHILD BOSSED THE DIAMOND.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue I, 3 May 1905, Page 3

CHILD BOSSED THE DIAMOND.

Ilovr a SeTpn-Yen'r-Old Dor L'mplrcd ;' » «?»me liftwcca Men ; , l'loyen*.

? put at til* Y. At* C. A. grounds iv AV^st Philadelphia reoently two base ball teams composed of grown men soiue of tliem old enOi^jh, t»\m would think, tp have hiore serious /things to-do, w*e,re struggling 1 for, suj[ >r t-niacy. Ife^was rtot a; partJcJUliirly Vtscientific gisnie — indeed, i% wjts often!; ludicrous, ft^jd the star perfo^mf!^; \i-a.i theuin-

pire.

Ke vrte' little "Joe" Craddock, >scarcdly larger than o threfc-ccnt ptece, and about knee-high to a grass- 1 hopper. The little fellfe'w \is only i seven yeArs old and looks younger, ,but he had all th-e gesture and manners of. th,e, profbsisi,onal umpire down ;pajt. Moreover, he knew all the in;ti">;pate. points of tfc« game ami gave his decisions m ft : shrill, piping and $$*& officially Stern voice. ' •- j/.-J^lt was laughable, says the Phila;dejphia Heoord,.to See some of the ;-playera, when a close decision would: ;>b)e-i, given, fly into a rage and hotly ,argTie with the roidget umpire. In their excitement they seemed to lose >6ight of the humor of the situation* bwjt when the little fellow, would majestically order them off the field, the ifevf spectators would ronf with laughter. The plnyefs themsolveti ? didii't see anything f unn j» m it until game was over and they had a. dha&ce to think about it.