The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-09-28

BY SMITH.
Unsatisfactory Results of YeSter-
days Ball Game at POttSville.
ATTACHMENT THE CAUSE
The Shenandoah Management Nailed the
Gate Receipts, Huston Baked and
Riot Almost Followed.

The seventh game between the Harris
burg and the Pottsville clubs for the
championship of the State league, at Potts
vile yesterday, ended very abruptly. The
game was given to Pottsville by the UNI
pire on the ground that Harrisburg for
feited it by refusing to continue playing,
but it is claimed that an award could not
be made because FIVE innings were not
played.
When the game ended the score was a
tie on the fourth inning Harrisburg
scored three runs in the first and Potts
vile scored one in the third and two in
the fourth.
The championship is becoming badly
twisted and many followers of the sport
express the belief that it will never be
settled.
The Harrisburgs have returned to their
own grounds. Before leaving Pottsvllle
Manager Huston said he would be pre-
pared to play at Harrisburg to-day and II
the Pottsvilles carried out their threats
not to appear the game would be claimed
In such an event each club will have an
equal number of games won and lost.
The Pottsvilles said they could not go
TO Harrisburg because they had arranged
to play the Wilkes Barres at home to-day.
The cause of the abrupt ending of the
game was an attachment of the gate re
ceipts made by James Smith, of the
Shenandoah base ball club. Mr.. Smith
wished to recover SIS, which he claims IS
due from the Harrisburg club as part of
guarantee.
When Manager Huston learned that
the receipts had been attached he took
the Senators off the diamond and the
umpire gave the game to Pottsville by n
score of 9 to o.
Public opinion was against Huston for
tho action he tnOl md the Ticket pupnf
at the gate came near being made a
victim of violence because he refused to
give the people their money back They
claimed that as five innings had not been
played there was no game. Only the in
tervention of cool headed citizens pre-
vented a riot, but the ticket agent did
not disgorge.
Mr.. Smith, of the Shenandoah club,
tells spicy story about the balance of
the guarantee for which the attachment
was issued. He says his club was entitled
to $50, but Huston only paid S22 and
promised to give the balance in the even
ing. When the time arrived Huston
invited Smith to his boarding house to
get the money. While Smith was waiting.
for the cash Huston slipped out the back
door OF the house and he never came
back"
Huston, on the other hand, claims an
offset He says the Shenandoah manage
ment Unidentified him against loss for
playing Sunday base hall AZ Shenandoah;
that the Harrisburg club was prosecuted
aJ louisville and compelled to pay about
S6s as fines and costs for playing Sun
day game in Shenandoah and Smiths
club should stand the loss.
Mr.. Smith denies Hustons statement
on this score.
The money attached by Smith is still
in the hands of the Pottsville manage.
ment and will be held until the matter
can be decided by legal process 1t is
quite likely that the Pottsvilles will come
in and claim all the gate receipts on the
ground that the Harrisburgs had not
earned share of the receipts and there
fore there was nothing which Smith
could attach.
The side issues to championship series
have multiplied to such an extent and
grown so unsavory that public interest
in the games has dropped considerably.