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Cotton States Umpires For 1939 Season NamedBy President E. HartySyd WoodersonExpected To BeTough For Glenn•By. GAYLE TALBOTNEW YORK, April 12 (AP) — II will be n great surprise lo me »r Sydney Woadrrson, the scatter-footed little Englishman, docs notrun the* legs off Glenn Cunningham. our tup.miler, in their long-awaited race nt Princeton on JuneIt has bcon my unimportant opinion Tor about lour years that the frail - looking Londoner Was the greatest milcr in the world, capable of boating either Cunningham nr .lack Lovelock, the grcnl New Zealander, any time he met them In a special race.I still think he would have won the IfiOU meters in the 1030 Olympics at Berlin had it not been* for an injured ankle, even * though Lovelock raced to a record in that event. A fierce light burns behind the speclncles of the little clerk.You *»«. Wooderson*came up the hard way, and I happened to be there to waLch It happen. Lovelock !i I ready wets famous when Wood-erssun. running lor an obscure dub lenm around London, first challenged the great Oxford enplain.The crowd at White City that day scarcely could credit il* eyes when Wooderson, the unknown, fume up in tlu* stretch to pass Lovelock, v.-hy, Wooderson wasn’t - veil a public school boy.So they passed that one off as im ftcekleni. The mishap . might *oon have been forgotten, except that the next lime they met on the same track Woodenam lit out ind did it again. I saw It. and la-Iqr saw Lovelock, and he was ass jwutlcxl as the next one.••1 was running the best I knewThe staff of umpires for the Cotton States League season opening next Wednesday, April IU. announced today by Judge Emmet Harty, Greenville, president of the elght-elith Hlnss C circuit embracing Mississippi. Arkansas and Louisiana cities, includes four arbiters who were in the circuit hist season and four now officials.The staff includes Irish Welsh, Jackson. Miss.: Leonard W. Rowe. Haverhill. Mass.: Herbert Oreficc. Hartford. Conn.: William F\ ftch-bcln. Cudahy, Wisconsin; Unity J. Gribbon, Uirminghuin, Ala.; Ellis F. Ucggs, Pultun. Ky.; Thomas Lovett, Toledo. Ohio; and James Vomiari. Lumbeipoit, West Virginia.Rowe starts his third season in the league. Welsh was in .he circuit most of last season and is the veteran of all the arbiters in number of years of sendee. Ore lie-’ is starting’liis second season. Heh-befn wore I hi* blue in the league purl of Inst . year.Umpires 3lcrt April JB*Gribbon handled Lhe iudicatoi in lhe Southeastern League I as l season and wins recommended b\ Pa toy O'Rourke. Rrggs ofTieiiiUvi in the Kitty League ami is receiving promotion fro nillie circuit in wliich he was umpire in (he all-star series games. Lovett i:; connected with the city administration of Toledo in the wilder and lias officiated in the Three-Eye, Central and South Allan lie leagues. Vcnmtii comes recoin -imolded by Charles F. Harrell, scout of the St. Luu is Cardinals.A meeting of umpires will be held in the office of President Harty on Tuesday. April 18. lhe eve of the opening of the league s'Ciixnii ot which pairings will be made and assignments issued.The offices of the Cotton Slate:; League have been established in the Joe Woinbrrg Building,
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Greenville Delta Democrat Times
Greenville, Mississippi, US
Wed, Apr 12, 1939
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