Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-08-11
UNJUST UMPIRE ,FOlLED..
Defeat of tI.c Houndvil1e bumpers
90" by the Hurting LIIncs.

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| The baseball cranks were swapping
| stories The' man with 'sunburned
neck had just finished tolling how he
had once made triple play -unassist
ed, when the man with the sandy
whlskers spoke up. ...,~...,... ...
1.-The remarkable play which the
! man With the sunburned neck has de
scribed," he said reminds me of a
singular game in which myself once
participated 1t took place out in Wis
consin. The team of which | was a
member was. called the Hurting Ii
lacs, and, my. regular position was
right field. The llopndyillc bumpers
the team that went up against us. was
made up Of eX-cowboys, and they had
the reputation of getting burly on the
slightest pyOvocation. The umpire
was an extremely large man, who
knew about as much about baseball
as Adam did about the mechanism OF
an automobile. ,,
"The game began. and the umplrc's
decisions were so uniformity unjust
and idi0tic tliat neither side suffered
more than the other, ana for Il time all
went well. But i'm the last half of the
eighth the trouble began The score
stood rs to 10 infayor of the Jumpers.
Our side was at bat and the first three
men up drew bases on balls. Then
the fourth man got -four wide ones and
the umpire called him out Our first
base man waS justly enraged at the
unfair decision and demanded an ex'
planation '.'' 80 '. .i
THE bases are full said the. UNI
pire, aud there Is no room for the
batter. Therefore he Is out
"Why, you blankety blank chump,'
exclaimed the first base man. don't
you see that it forces
' "'No man can be scored unless the
bah is hit out interrupted the umpire
You may 20 to the bench for using
profane- language ..f n-,. ~,
"Of course the opposing pitcher gave
the next man up four wide ones, and
the umpire again called an out. The
second base man was the one to protest
this time, and ne in turn was sent to
the bench and put out OF the game.
When the umpire called the third man
out on the fourth ball, the rage of our
team knew no bounds. Fear of the
bumpers prevented us from doing any
thing violent to him, and we had to be
content with killing him with our
mouths. We threw out words and
epithetS so vehemently that when our
opponents came to bat every one on
our side but myself had been ordered
out of the game. .. Poe ...I -,..
"Our advcrsarieS were. already pro-
claiming victory. but babe them cease
their cries and went In to contend
against them alone.
The first man up Knocked a pop up
fly. which | easily gathered In. The
second man hit little grOunder, which
stopped and by hard running beat
him down to. first The third man was
disposed of in like manner. ...,.f
II was the first man up in the next
inning, and saw that as there was
nobody to follow me, it would be nee
essary to make Il home run. The first
ball pitched was a wide one. but |
lVaped across the plate and landed into
deep center for four bases. went to
the bench and then came up in place
Of the second man. This time |
iumned high into the air and banged
the ball over right field fence. Nine
times came to the bat and made nine
home runs, winning the game by the
score of 40 to As The Uoundvllle
IIumpers were crazy with rage, but
none of them questioned the slight ir- |
of my coming to bat nine
times in succession, as it was just that
l should take the place Of the absent
players. And then they take n good |
many liberties with the national rules I
out there. New York Sun.