The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-08-07

Decision of Umpire Angus is Up
held - Carter and Thompson
Give Some Explanations.

special meeting of the Baseball
League was held in the Chamber of
Commerce hall yesterday at 80 p. m.
for the purpose of considering the pro-
test made by the Star Baseball Team
in regard to the second game of Satur-
day, July 31st. There were present
| President H. M. Whitney, Jr., Man
ager Carter, Vice-Captain Percy Lish-
man, Lionel Hart of the Stars and Cap
| tain Thompson of the st. Louis team.
The meeting was called to order, and
Secretary Hart read the protest of the
Stars, through its manager, J. o. Car
ter, Jr., and approved by Vice-Captain
Lishman. The protest was to the eff
feet that the Star Baseball Team called
for a reversal of the decision of Um-
pire Angus in calling the game a draw,
and sustaining the position taken by
Captain Thompson of the ST. Louis
Club Captain Wilder had no right to
make the agreement. The manager
alone was the one to attend to such
affairs, and he had decided before the
game that in the event of the ST. Louis
boys not making a run in their half of
the ninth inning, the game should be
proceeded with. The protest called at
tention to the rules of 90, in which
rain or darkness alone could stop the
progress of the game There had been
neither.
In reply to a question by Manager
Carter, Captain Thompson said that he
had no objection to Lishmans acting in
Wilder's place.
Manager Carter spoke as follows in
a good deal of talk about the decision
of the league in the games of July 5th,
and in order to get the ST. Louis team
back into line again, certain action was
taken. The ST. Louis gave us the two
runs we were entitled to, and the Stars
decided to go over the decision of the
league and play the game out, with
the provision that, in case the st. Louis
boys should fail to make a run in their
half of the ninth inning, the game
should be played out. The st. Louis
team objected. In case of a tie at the
end of the ninth, they wanted the re-
mainder of the game played at another
date. I went to see Captain Wilder,
and got there as the conversation be-
tween him and Captain Thompson had
been finished. l objected to the agree
ment the two had made, but the st.
Louis team chose to go on and play
over my objection. The umpire had no
right to call the game tie. We. were
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agree with that view. Now we want
the league to do 1t"
The president called for a motion,
and Manager Carter moved that the
protest be allowed This was seconded
by Lishman.
Captain Thompson: "I should like,
first of all, to ask Manager Carter
what rule of 80 gives him the right to
make arrangements for the club any
more than the captain? Where is such
a thing specifically stated?"
Manager Carter: '"The manager has
full charge of the team. I don't say
that the rules specify that I am to make
all arrangements"
Captain Thompson: About this
matter. I should like to say that I had
a conversation with Captain Wilder in
the presence of Mr.. w. G.. Wilder, Jr
He declined for quite a while to listen
to our proposition, but finally agreed
Carter did not address me at all. but
spoke to Captain Wilder. I asked the
latter if the agreement we had made
held. and upon receiving a reply in
the affirmative. turned away and left
I am reported in the morning paper as
having turned away with an insulting
sneer' That is not fact. Carter did
not address me at all. Furthermore.
should think that an agreement be-
tween two captains would be sufficient
ly binding. The manager had ample