Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-21
BASE BALL NEVS.
Reports Say Waterbury Was
 Robbed on Saturday.

.a. A Bridgeport Paper Accuses Dan
 Pfenninger of Burglary Captain
 Fitzpatrick Is Put Out of the Game
 and Fined-The Game Was Played
 Under Protest-Secretary O'Rourke
 Again Upholds Pfenninger In His
 Blunders.
 AS an evidence of how Waterbury IS being treated in this league, the ac- count of Saturdays game. in yester- days Sunday Herald tells the story. The article was headed: Case of Bur- giary; Umpire Pfeninger Got Away With Game from Waterbury," The rest of the article is as follows:
 No further evidence is required that Manager O'Rourke of the Bridgeports has string on the umpires and that they dare not do anything displeasing to him., after yesterdays case of rob- bery when the Waterburys were rob- bed of victory. Dan Pfeninger may be honest and perhaps he intends to treat the players opposed to Bridge port as fairly as he does the O'Rourke crowd, but he certainly made a mess of it yesterday. Twice he was caught with stolen goods on him and hav- ing the power to punish those who dis puted him he exercised it by removing Captain Fitzpatrick from the game in the second inning.
 And then after ordering the player to the bench and fined him. Now that is rubbing it in with a vengeance. He should have fined Fitzpatrick first and then ordered him out of the game. Manager O'Rourke was happy because of the weakened condition Fitzpat- rick's retirement would leave the team in. Spectators blinded by partisanship approved of the umpire's course, but no true sport could endorse the action. It was coward1y and the protest that Manager Harrington entered ought to be upheld
 The trouble started when Murphy hit to left. The ball took a bad bound and went towards the gate. Murphy was stretching the hit into three sacks and in order to make sure he cut sec ond base by ten feet. The umpire was looking in that direction and Captain Fitzpatrick called for the ball. which was thrown to him. He touched sec ond and asked Umpire Pfeninger for a ruling. Just what passed between them on the field could not hear, but I saw the umpire wave Fitzpatrick to the bench Other players expostrl- lated with him but to no avail.
 Manager Harrington in the grand stand called Manager O'Rourke and said:
 .Jim, if he has to go out of the game I have no man to take his place. The people here want to get run for their money and am anxious to give them it"
 With cynical smile, MT O'Rourke replied:
 'T can't interfere with the umpire in a matter of this kind. Why don't you have your players refrain from abusing the umpire None of my men do it because I would not let them"
 You know" said Manager Hafring- ton. that I protested to you against assigning Pfeninger to umpire any of the Waterbury games"
 ssT supposed that you only referred to his umpiring in Waterbury" said Mir O'Rourke.
 ssI don't know how you understood it that way. What difference does it make whether he umpires in Water bury or some other city where the Waterbury team plays? We simply do not want him in the game. You also know that the umpires will re- move a man from the game for either you, Connor or Canayan. I am get ting sick and tired of this sort of treatment and I want to have you know that I protest this game right now and shall have more to say on the subject at the next league meeting"
 The above is enough to tell about that game. The score was as follows:
 BRIDGEPORT.
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