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Died. George Magerkurth, 77, National League umpire from 1929 to 1947, a 6-ft.-4-in. ex-heavyweight boxer with a bulldog face and a growl to match, who set the tone of his career by bouncing John J. McGraw in the first game he worked, became the terror of such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia...
Durocher knows umpires-and they know him. Beans Reardon deflates Leo by saying, "Stop putting on your act, little boy." The most awe-inspiring of umpires is large, red-faced George Magerkurth, who swells up with majestic rage when his dignity is pricked. Leo's arguments with him are Brooklyn legend. "The Mage," says Leo fondly, "is one of the best umpires in baseball." It is a slow season when The Lip gets less than five notices from National League headquarters. Sample: "For prolonged argument, delaying the game, use of violent, profane language, you are fined...
...thousand men of Harvard have long looked to you as the personification of fair play and sportsmanship. Today, two million citizens of Brooklyn dazed, bewildered, almost crushed by the injustice of Leo Durocher's suspension--look to the outside world for leadership. Even Magerkurth in all his Olympian ire never dispatched The Lip to the showers for 154 straight games. That's a lot of ball games, Mr. Bingham...
...Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...
...National League meeting in New York last week it was announced that Umpire George L. Magerkurth had been purchased from the Pacific Coast League for $2,000-a record umpire price...
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