The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-18
EFFAES KS IN UMPIRE
DREW A BIG CROWD TO THE BALI.
GAME YESTERDAY AFT
ERNOON
GIVEN RoUsING GREETING
His Decisions Did Not Prove Him
Champion Umpire-Interesting
Game Won by the
CIOthiePs

me combination attraction of James
JeHrles umpiring a game Of baseball In
the Twin City Amateur league series ar
lexington park yesterday afternoon drew
5'VVO spectators. who gave Mr.. Jeffrfes a
cofoIal enough reception when he was
AolLhdliy introduced, but passed up the
champion fighter almost completely dur
ing the ball game
JeHr1es confined his umpiring to looking
after the bases, and had little to do save
caper about so that the spectators could
marvel at his robust physique. He
dofted his cap politely in recognition of
the crowds plaudits upon his appearance
and srinEed occasionally at some phase
OF the game during the ball playing. but
refused cIamorous demand for a speech
He is big and brown. a splendid en-
nodlment Of Drawn and muscle, with a
difhdent manner that is somewhat re-
freshing in champion of any kind, and
really seemed to place very little i'm
portance on himself during the game,
though he was the magnet that drew
the crowd
In his field costume Jeffries looked, at
distance, simply a great big, hearty
young man, appareled in ordinary street
trousers, patent leather shoes and a
soiled blue sweater In the fall of the
year he might easily have been taken
for the center rush or coach of a varsity
football team
In umpiring the bases Jeffries was so
far from the grand stand that few Of
the spectators could get a satisfactory
look at him, and after the game the big
fellow showed marked aversion to
scrutiny by running hurriedly from the
field to the dressing room, as the specta-
tors poured from the stands on to the
field to get closer to him.
n fai
but he has some distance to go in this
line before he reaches the pinnacle he
has reached in pugiiStic circles He had
only one reasonably close decision, and
gave what the spectators thought was a
lot the worst of it to the base runner,
declaring Hinkel, of the Hamm's team
out a third base when the baseman was
off the sack after the ball.
The ball game was between the Len
non & Gibbons team and the Hamm
Brewing Company team and proved in
teresting throughout, though the final
score was large, totaling 13 to 10 in ia
VOr of the clOthiers. In the first part
of the game Lennon & Gibbons secured
a good margin by gathering in five scores
and held their opponents down well for
five innings, when the Brewers landed up
on Powers for five hits, among them two
three-baggers, retiring the elongated
twirler in embarrassment to right field.
Berg took his place and did fairly well
until the clothiers cinched matters in the
eighth inning by handing out a dose Of
the same medicine to young Mr.. Fleet
ham that had retired Powers, walloping
the sphere five times safely and netting
five runs, a lead which the Brewers could
not overcome.
Both teams played a good fielding
game, all things considered, and each
side did some timely stick work. As be-
tween the pitchers, Fleetham had all the
best of it, He had retired five batters to
Powers three. and was much more steady
than the local pitcher, who seems to
have curves enough, but lacks control
O'MalIey caught a good game, making
some difficult stops, while Williams, a
colored youth recruited for Lennon &
Gibbons. made sensational running
catch that installed him favorite Fol
lowing in the score: