The Washington times., 1902-09-08
fOUGHS SURGE over DIAMOND
Feared Thirteen-Inning Bat
tie Would Be Forfeited
to Visitors.
POLICE DRAW THEIR CLUBS
Griffith Savagely Protests Decision
Rooters With Flaming Torches Cause
Feeling to Run High-White Sox
Capture First Contest.
Special to The Washington rimes.l

Especial to The Washington Tmes.)
CHICAGO, Sept 7.--Thile paper
torches flared in the semi-darkness
which enveloped the Southside Baseball
Park, waved back ana forth and up and
down by excited hands; while baseball
players shouted, expostulated. threat
ened; while a mob of fully 5000 per-
sons, in which feeling ran high, surged
about an umpire. the second game be-
tween Washington and the White Stock
ings today barely missed coming 10 a
most disgraceful close.
There was not one of the 1000 and
more spectators who did rot momenta-
rily expect to see Umpire Carruthers set
upon and beaten, and perhaps stamped
into the earth by 5000 heels. Police
officers with drawn clubs and hands
ready to draw more effective weapons
stood near him and the baseball players
of both clubs were ready each with a
hickory to deal out sore and broken
heads at the first offensive move of the
mob.
The tougher element was pushed back
as soon as it neared Carruthers. From
the outskirts OF the crowd they picked
up whatever they could lay their hands
to and hurled it toward the center. For
more than a quarter of an hour the mob
pushed and showed about the umpire and
the players who we're near him.
Many Torches Cleaned.
In the meantime it was growing dark
er and darker. The hastily constructed
paper torches cleaned by the hundreds
until it seemed that all of the stands
were ablaze.
President Comiskey was nearly fran
would be burned. 1t was the beginning
of the fourteenth inning of the second
game. when the score was a tie-3 to g..
that the trouble started.
Owing to the tremendous crowd there
was a ground rule in effect, which al
lowed runner to take but three bases if
the ball was knocked into the crowd. A
great deal of surprise was manifested
when Umpire Carruthers asked the play
ers to continue in the fourteenth inning,
because it was too dark to play. Ely,
the Washington shortstop. had flied TO
Green. and Carey, who followed him,
raped out hard one to center.
The ball did not touch any member of
the crowd congregated there, but it went
behind the outer fringe of persons who
were sitting on the ground. 1t was
fielded quickly by Mertes and Jones, and
Carey was held at second.
Seeing him stop there. Umpire Car
ruthers motioned him to go cn to third,
and Immediately the whole Chicago team
and 1900 spectators were in an uproar.
Grifith's Violent Outburst.
Griffith grabbed Carruthers sayagely
BY the arm and jerked him around. Davis
ran toward him swinging his arms as If |
eager to deal him punch, and the other
members of the champion team gathered
about and shook their fingers in his face. |
Griffith and Davis were ordered out of
the game. and Callahan was substituted |
for Griffith. Isbell was moved over to |
short. and Sullivan was placed on first.
Carruthers had just drawn his watch |
and had ordered the game to proceed |
when the mob started pellmeIl for the |
of angry Texas cattle. and the roar
which went up sounded like a below.
That started the players talking again.
Delehanty struck couple of matches
and held them up in the air. They
cleaned brightly. and the thousands in
the bleachers, taking the cue from this,
began to light their torches.
In few seconds men were so thickly
crowded together on the diamond that
II was impossible to play. 1t was
thought certain that Umpire Carruth-
ers would forfeit the game to Washing
ton by score of 9 to 0. Had he done
this he would certainly have been
beaten by the crowd, but instead he
declared that the game reverted to the
end of the thirteenth inning. and was
therefore a tie. With this announce
ment the crowd broke UP and he was
allowed to walk into the grandstand.
An Exciting Finish.
Chicago fandom never saw such fin-
fpH peiofe, anu III lacl II never saw
game which was any more highly inter
csting. Carrick and Griffith were the
pitchers, and they struggled over every
inch. Some of the fielding was seDsa- !
tional
As IL began TO grow dark there was
much trouble over the ball, and once |
when Ishell had the dirty enc, just be- I
~ 4
threatened to call the game un- G
ess the old sphere was used. After a Q
wait of nearly FIVE minutes the old bali S
vas produced and the game went on.
The champions had rather an easy /
fme in the first gare, winning ii by n
| score of so 8. Patterson allowed
,nly six hits Townsend was his OPP I
'onent, and he allowed the drives to be p
punched. The White Sox made two at a