The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-13
MOB GOES AFTER
UMPIRE JONES
Ball Game Broken Up by Rush
For Diamond.
SCRIMMAGE IS HARMLESS
BOISE DECLARED WINNER By
SCORE OF 9 to o.
SCRIMMAGE IS HARMLEss
TWO THOUSAND five hundred per-

Two THOUSAND FIVE hundred per-
sons who went to Walkers field
yesterday afternoon saw eight
nlnths of ball game and an umpire
mobbed.
There had been multerings an
through the game. The outbreak came
iu the FIRST half of the ninth. Third
basenau Jack FiauueTy of Boise WAS
at bat and Pitcher Elmer Meredith
pitched him curved ball Flannery
expected "a straight bail and SWING
Vigorously at 1t. The bah broke away
from The plate and FIanuery missed ii
about "a foot Umpire Frank Jones im-
ine4iaieiy shouted BAH one.' and the
bother started
Halt dozen men spraug over tie
fence from the right field bIeacaars
Nlia yells. Am instant later the occu-
pants or bieaCherS right and left rose
almost as one man and poured iut1 lie
Held lu vain police officers and play
eEs euQedYored TO stem The rush of Iu-
lAaulty. Pleas. arguments. threats,
We're Qt uG avail. I'm "a solid mass nuu-
o-eas oL men and ooys conscrsad uu
the umpire from north and west.
shouting and gestUrius wildly.
Players Defend Umpire.
Players from both teams. some Of
whom had been roasting the umDire
iperally themselves during the game.
Iaiued 20 his support. Hastily seiziuE
Dats or Whatever they could reach they
lah rapidly 10 the center of the U5a-
1llo-u ana formed ring around j lnes.
me crowd surged back and forth
across the diamond. but nobody ra-
close enough to lay hands ON The UNI
pure ptesumlng that any one harbOred
1urh an intention. From the slab 10
tfet pase the storm center moved. iud
men BACK toward the Boise players
Police officers who had ATTEMPTED To
make rev arrests had found Them
selves pOWeriess against the over
MhrimiuS odds. Several concerted eff
forts by players and police having
Ialied 10 break up the mob. McCIosIzev
oeeided TO Try the power of oratory ON
lHe lnrohg- Accordingly he mounted
me players bench and began:
Hear me, people,"
Down wit Ina. Hang 'iml" am
sNered the gentle persons about him.
Here began John again; "be
Americans"
Throws Water on Crowd.
AT This juucture second Baseman
Daniel % Cuuuell of the Boise team
created diversion by throwing water
ON tEe crowd. The first dipperfuI re-
salted in oVerturniug McCIoskey's
Tosfrum ana Honest Johns speech
came 10 an abrupt te1u nation
ttounell kept meIri,y ON. Dipper-
raj after dlpperful be spTiulzied over
she crowd and his idea began 90 bear
ffuii- Just as the crowd started TO
scatter somebody sueaked up behind
OCuuneu and handed him "a swift
kfch. With a mighty roar the good
natured O.COnueu turned and started
after uls assailaut- Getting within a
few feet OF the r5oter O'ConneU let
drive with the tin dippeT. It was a wild
pitch. but IL did much TO restore good
humUT.
While this was going on AIcCIoskev
and Gimlin were deVising some means
of getting Jones away i'm safety, as
The umpire was sIil the chief center
OF attention. AT length he was escort :
ed. under guard. 10 "a carriage i'm right 1
field and brought i'm safety up town. /
Fights Follow on Street.
The racket was the only topic of dis /
cussiou on the streets last night and
several scraps followed verbal argu- /
meuts On IL. In one instance "a Veuer-
able salt Lake rooter had words with .
young Boise supporter. Suddenly.
hilhout warning. the old man dashed (
OUT with bis FIST, caught the young fell .
low fair on the nose and carried his
point by one blow.
a bit of sneak thieving took place
during the trouble ola the field. Iu the /
shuttle gloves belonging to Hammond.
Starkells and GimIiu, coats belonging
20 O'Conueu and Hanson. three bats
belonging to Boise and ten new balls
belonging 10 Salt Lake were stolen.
Stories Show Jones Prejudice.
Many stories were current last night
TO the effect that Jones had promised
To give salt Lake the worst OF III and
had severely roasted the salt Lake
players at different places around
Town. one definite story was told by
=. Bluudeu and ira u. Walden. two
young men of Salt Lake. who prepared
q formal written statement setting ont.
that Jones had said he would give Salt
Lake what was coming TO it and would
nae "a certain salt Lake player III DE
urFlert0Ok TO open his head before
he could get his mouth open"
But whether Jones said this or not
90 IS universally admitted that his work
as an umpire is bad. III would be hard
10 prove that he save either side The
worst OF be-. AS "a matter of fact. Del
mas got decision similar 90 the one
on Flaunery. Earlier I'm the game Del
mas swung ana missed one, getting
credit for one ball instead of a strike.
The Boise players kicked with more or
less NiEOr on III at the time, but at
length suffered it TO pass.
Two Players Fined.
Aside from his poor decisions Jones j
lacks Hrmuess. He permits the teams
90 ran the game for him. Time after
time three or four players rushed in
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