The San Francisco call., 1896-10-27

agement of the series of games is clean
cut. The Examiner people refused to
allow Harvey, the phenomenal pitcher
from the south, to assume the box in
which he has repeatedly played since the
tournament began. They claim he has
passed the age limit OF Is years and 6
months and is not entitled to recognition.
The Tu!ts-Lyons nine declare that this
is wrong and have demanded of the pro-
testers that evidence be produced show
ing Harvey to be averaged. This so far
has not materialized, even in the face of
the evidence the nne has presented that
Harvey is lot yet IS years old.
AS Manager Shields states, Its poor
mother and father who can't tell the age
of their own child. and here is the atfi-
davit Harvey's parents have sworn to be-
fore a notary as 10 his right age":
James C. Harvey and Clara A. Harvey, being
duly sworn, say: That they are resid dents of
the city and county OF Los Angeles. State OF
California, that formerly they resided in the
town of Saratoga, county of Santa Clara, State
of California, and that they so resided during
the years from 1874 to 1880, inclusive; that
Erwin X. Harvey is their son and was born in
said town of Saratoga on January ), 1879, and
that, therefore, he will not be 1S years of age
until the 5th day of January, 1897.
Furthermore, they affirm that the aforesaid
Erwin K. Harvey is the same person who is a
member of the TuftsLyons Arms Baseball
Club, and as such member played in a contest
between said Tufts-Lyons Arms Club and the
Alameda Alerts Baseball Club on Saturday,
the 18th day OF September, 1896.
In witness whereof, the .deponents have
hereun to set their hands and seals this 14th
day of October, 1896.
TSeall JAMES C. HARVEY.
tseai1 CLARA A. HARVEY.
Sworn to and signed before me, notary
public, on the day above mentioned.
lSeall Z; a SUMNER,
Notary Public.
seThis trouble" Manager Shields of the
Los Angeles nine stated last evening,
s.dates pack to the game the Tufts Lyons
played with and won from the Alerrs of
Der II of this year. Within twenty-four
hours, the regulation time, protest was
entered against Charles Franck, our short
stop, claiming he was over age.
ssNo one else was protested against, al
though Harvey pitched for us then as he
has ever since, excepting on Sunday last.
Franck, however, proved his age to be
within the limit and he has since been re-
instated.
"About one week after the Franck cpl
sode protest was entered against the en-
tire team, thing which was clear beyond
the right and power of any person, as the
National League rules limit the time for
protests to twenty-four hours. At this
time, however, Mr.. Burke, then the man.
ager of the nine, sent in correct list of
ages of all the lads.
"a month later, for the first time, we
learned through the press dispatches that
Harvey was disqualified. If he was re-
tired honestly, SO should have been the
entire nine. We Immediately asked that
Harvey be reinstated and furnished evil
dence to the effect he was of proper age in
support of our request. No answer was
made to this, and ever since they have re.
fused to let us see the evidence upon
which the disqualification was based.
Sunday we submitted to the arbitrary
ruling and played the best game ever wit
messed in this State. We first offered to
give the game to the Monograms provid-
ing they allowed ns to play Harvey. We
did not want to disappoint the thousands
of people who had come to see the game,
and we wanted to show them we could
play ball.
1--WE have no desire to fool or humbug
the public by putting in our nine any
player not Justly entitled to be there. AS
to the cup, trophy or collar, whatever
name you may call it, weedo not care for
the thing but we do care to have the
public see us play with the full and legiti,