The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-15

trouble. The 8 o'clock call doesn't do
the whole work, and the lax manage
ment let's it go at that.
Another novel record a. Just been
made. After losing twenty-five consec-
utiVe championship games to the Bal
timores the Philadelphia on Aug. 8
finally defeated their hoodoo. There is
no other case like it known in the an
mails Of the national game. 1t is the
more remarkable because the two
teams are so much nearer matched
than h n sided contest indicates.
Philadelphia for ear has had a team
that ranked No. 1 as hitters, while the
baltimore pitchers have been far from
the best and nave been changed con-
Stantly. 1t was therefore not the in
ability to bat one or two certain pitch
ers, put looks like a piece of h~oodooism,
II there ever was such a thing. To
make 1t all the more remarkable the
same Philadelphia team, during it's pc
Rod of its lay Town to Baltimore, has
been able to win with ease from equal
~ strong teams, particularly the New
1orks. There is a subject mere for
some base ball ,theorist who has time
to sit down and figure out the Whv
n wherefore.
In no year since base ball became a.
professional game has there been so
much dlscord on the field between UNI
pres, players and spectators as there
mas thlS year. Hurst was assaulted bv
a mob in Pittsburg, and had a fist
llght with Catcher PETIT, in Cincinnati
sheridan was knocked down on he
diamond by Hawley at Pittsburg and
egged IN another city. Kennedy the
Brooklyn pitcher, hurled a ball at UNI
pre- ODay's head. Wolf, a local UNI
pre- IN louisville, was struck twice bv
Parke Wilson'S fist during a Wrangle
over a forfeited game. And the Slight
punching in the ribs, pulling. hauing
ana pushing which all of them, except
Lynch, received from time to time have
been SO common that thew Were con-
sldered unworthy of record by renort-
ers. Npi'
SUI the climax came with the arrest
OF Hurst in Cincinnati on Aug in
cincinnati, which city seems to he the
storm center for all the troubIe. A de-
clslon which Hurst made did not pIe9s,
some OF the spectators. One of them
VINO 4ad just drained a glass of beer,
hurled the empty glass at Hurst. If
rolled tC his feet. Very foolishly he
umpire picked it I'D and sent If han1-
whence it came. 1t was thrown at
fandom, but struck an innocent party
lnIlct1hg a long scalp wound. The nm,
pre- was then attacked by the crowd
pul the police managed to get him to
Se@CIO1, WI6IG he was nlaC66
under bonds to answer the charge Of
assault and battery. ~
When one summarizes this sta+a of
affairs and stacks it up beside tho
magnates, Address to the Umnires -
issued last February, it becomes ex-
tremely funny. What is more. there
is no club of the twelve which has not
protested he assignment of one or
mere of the regular umpires to games
i'll which it's team takes part. All of
this was forecast by me in one of the
early spring base a articles. So
the umpire question remains the great
unsolved problem which will again
confront the magnates when hey meet
In the winter conferences.
Perhaps the fault will be found in
the failure of club to maintain order
among the spectators. Had the man
who threw the beer glass at Hurst
keen promptly elected from the ground
the trouble would have ended there.
AS it is others will be to
shy a few empty stems at the official
on the diamond whenever they dis
agree with his decisions. Yet they
expect him to make no. mistakes in
his work and at the same time dodge
beer glasses.
There was a time in the National
league when n spectator who adj
dressed the umpire in harsh language
was promptly led to the gate and put
upon the outside. In those days no