Monday, May. 06, 1940

Boner

Most baseball umpires depend on their tongues and fists for protection against irate ballplayers. Umpire Bill Wilson was better equipped one night last week, when, at Fort Worth during a game between the San Antonio Missions and the Fort Worth Cats, the whole Mission team sprang toward him when, in the ninth, with the score tied, he called a Fort Worth player safe at home. Mr. Wilson instinctively pulled a knife.

"I was as surprised as anyone in the park when I saw it in my hand," wailed Ump Wilson, trying to explain his unprecedented behavior. "It was the worst boner I ever pulled."

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