The sun., 1903-06-22
RIOTING ON A BALL FIELD.
TWO UMPIRES LAID OUT, TO
BEGIN WITH.
Heads Broken. Shots Fired. slungshots
Improvised Out OF Handkerchief and
Broken Beer Glasses. and . Danc'
Ing Pavilion Invsded-NO Arrests Made.

Heads Broken. Shots Fired. Slungsnots
Improvised Out Of Handkerchief and
Broken Beer Glasses. and . Dano-
Ing Pavilion Invalied-No Arrests Made.
Perhaps IL there had been another UNI
pire in the field, the Sam Pauls OF 10 East
Fourteenth street and the Arnettes OF 200
Avenue A. would not have started in Queens
yesterday afternoon one OF the iveheet
riots that has ever occurred on Sunday
in the great cemetery borough. The
eighteen players ran two umpires on the
field and were getting very close to third
when the players began to scrap among
themselves. And what a scrap!
The baseball game and the riot were the
final events in an outing given at Celtic
Park, near Calvary Cemetery, by the Arctic
Pleasure Club and the Lincoln Wheelmen.
The first part Of the entertainment con-
sisted OF running races and similar
athletic events, and that part OF the anair
passed of without trouble Then the women
went to dancing in the pavilion and tho
two mines began their game. There was
a silver cup as the prize, and the struggle
was not only sharp, but pretty nearly to
the death.
In the fifth inning the umpire, name
unknown, called one Of the Sam Pauls
out on strikes and the player threw his
bat at the umpire, hitting him on the head
The umpire finished out the inning some
how, but when the Arnettes came in from
the field they Immediately made for the
bat thrower with all the weapons that
were lying around. Tho Sam Paul man
drew a revolver and fired.
Several Of the other players had revolves
and they fred them. None OF the bullets
ia reported TO have hit anybody, but the
shooting got every player worked up to
the proper fighting pitch and there was
soon free fight all over the diamond
An eyewitness says that at least hall the
PLAYERS were at one time or another down
and out ,,
The bat thrower, after doing little INST
fighting. made for the dancing pavilion.
The walters there shut the doors, but the
fleeing man didn't wait to get in that way.
He Jumped through a window. carrying
shower OF glass with him, and made for the
back OF the room.
A crowd OF shouting and angry players
followed him through the window and as
be beer glasses and chairs. He dived from a
window and landed on the ground, twenty
five feet below.
The rest Of the fighters stayed in the the
nall TO nave tnelI ilSub ooS A'o
women in the place ran in all directions
and several Of them tainted Several OF
the fighters had brought along bats; the
rest fought with chairs and beer glasses glasses
A number OF the men broke up beer glasses.
nut the broken glass into their handker-
Chiefs and made effective slungshots out
OF the combination. In ten minutes the
hall was wrecked.
About that time word got around that
somebody had telephoned for the police
and tho whole crowd. gathering up their
wounded (no dead have as yet been re-
ported), beat hasty retreat.
When the police got there they found not
hood.
The Sam Pauls arc members OF the San,
Paul Assooiation. The Arnettes say that
their opponents took crowd OF fifty sup
porters, all armed with revoVers' 70 the
field.
When the fifth inning was over the
Arnettes led by a score Of n to Z.