Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
ESPECIAL rEIEeRAM TO THE p,srArcH., :,

PHILADELPHIA, August 26. Dick
Johnston, the clever center fielder of the
Boston club, did not play pennant ball to-
day, for he made an error in the twelfth
inning which nearly cost his club the loss
of the game, and melted an attempt at riot
which was only prevented by rush of the
players to the exit under the pavilion, near
which an excited mob was assisting Cap
tain Farrar and Delehanty in making an
attempt to take. ball away from Captain
Kelly.
1t was disgraceful scene, but under the
circumstances one which is liable to happen
on any ground. Nobody but the mob is re-
sponsible, as they had no business on the
field, and had the excited hoodlums re-
mained in the stands the play which Captain
Farrar was trying to make would have been
perfected and probably allowed, but the
mob surrounded the two captains, and made
dire threats which the Boston captain defied.
and was thus melted to make an attempt to
secure the ball.
BITTER CONTEST.
The contest was a bitter one from the start.
every inch of ground being fought by both
sides as il the championship depended on the
result. The crowd Numbered 6, 400 people, who
applauded the good plays and cheered their
favorites on in their magnificent work. At the
close of the ninth inning the score stood to 4,
and remained so during the two next succeed
ing innings, Philadelphia was retired without
a run in the twelfth and with one man out
Kelly reached second on his scratch hit and
Hallman's wild throw.
Nash fouled out and Brouthers was sent to
first on balls. With two men out and two men
on the bases johnson drove the ball into GEN.
ter. Fogarty rushed up to meet 1t, but 1t
struck a rut and bounded past to the fence.
Kelly of course scored, and the spectators in
the loft field seats. as is their usual custom,
jumped the three-foot fence into the enclosure.
not for the purpose of engaging in any ungen-
tlemanly conduct, but because 1t is the quick
est way to get out of the grounds. But 2OU or
800 got as far as the diamond when Captain
Farrar yelled to Fogarty to throw the ball to
him, as he wished to make a claim that John
ston had not run to first base on his HIT a
claim that was just and should have been rec
ognized by Umpire Curry, who was rendering
base decisions.
At the time Fogarty did throw the ball in the
diamond but Kelly picked it up and was making
for the players exit when both Farrar and
Delehanty run up to Kelly and attempted to
takethe ball away from the latter for the pur-
pose of making the play but Kelly refused to
release his grip on the ball and the crowd which
was now thoroughly excited, but unaware of
what the three men were doing, rushed to the
assistance of the home players and then there
was scene of the widest excitement.
AN EXCITING SCENE.
Kelly attempted to grab a bat from the
hands of Nash, the Boston third basemen, and
as soon as the crowd saw this they closed in on
the Boston men. and would have done consid-
cradle injury had not the Philadelphia players
and several policemen got around Kelly and
rushed him under the pavilion until the
excitement was over. Kelly remained there
for some time, the street in front of the pa
vilion being packed with a crowd full OF curl
osity to see what would be done with the Bos-
ton captain when he emerged from the grounds.
Kelly was slipped through the ticket office,
however, by Manager Wright and put in a
carriage and driven through the Broad street
gate unknown to the people waiting for him at
the Huntington street gate.
At the conclusion of the uproar. a reporter
interviewed Kelly, Farrar and Manager Wright
aud umpires Curry and McQuaid. Manager
Wright said he would protest the game and so
notified the umpires. Captain Farrar said
Johnston did not run as far as first base and
that was the reason he wanted the ball, to
when Kelly replied that he didn't know what
Farrar wanted the bail for unless it was to
give him an old one in place of the new, which
was in play at the time the winning run was
scored. He said had Farrar told him what he
wanted to do with the ball he would have given
it up.
Farrar did not admit that he did tell him
this but said that Kelly should have known
what he wanted the bali for. Both umpires
said they did not see the play, Curry claiming
that he was watching Kelly, who is very fond
of cutting third base when any advantage can
be gained by the trick.