Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-24

| ~ 6t't't lain Will 1uti II-tNl3tiH vi MS
staff, and from this time on the play
ers will begin To realize that the nm
pire is the ruler of the 2aao.
Ono Il Ia most disgratetra oeeut=
euces ttat hrs occurred III he Cotton
States ipaIde games this season rs
/ the treatment Of Bob Peude1 AT NIeKa
/ burg after he had been ordered from
| The game. Three deputy eonsta6les
Went on the field to escort the man
aeer from the grounds after he had
/ been ordered out by the umpire, when
one would have been enough. for EeIl-
der had said he would go quietly.
| But the player stopped to change his
! park shoes to street shoes. and one
OF the deputies lost his head and tried
TO put the handouts on Pender. This
was absolutely unnecessary and was
a violation OF the law. for the player
violated no civil law. Policemen and
constables are supposed to preserve
| the peace and not to handcutf a man
guilty of no violation OF the peace.
Fender being visitor in the city
| made the offence on the part of the
deputy all the more rank Pende;
had been ordered from the grounds
and would have gone quietly and
peaceably without any such hostile
demonstration as thar made by the
young deputy.
The clOseneSs of the scores made
! by the rival teams in the Cotton
States league shows more clearly
than anything else just how close
the race for the pennant is going to
be at the end of the season. There
are many fans in the circuit who yet
believe that the long lead now held
by Vicksburg will be cut down before
the end of the season, and that club
has finished the last three weeks oil
play very much to the bad in the
total number OF games won and lost.
Vicksburg has yet taken no slump by
, losing games for a week at a time
but the dropping of games to other
clubs has gone steadily on. Pine
Bluff and Baton Rouge have both
more than held their own in the
games with Earle's men and Green
vile and Monroe, are close seconds
for the honors of defeating the lead
ers The games of the two will
have much to do with the deciding
OF the race for the pennant. Vicks-
burg goes ON the road playing Monroe
and .Natchez, and these clubs can be
depended upon to cut large slices
out of the lead now held by the Hill
Climbers
Monroe now has twOgame lead
on the second place and the game put
up by the Ouachitas for the past week
will make it hard proposition for
the club that moves them out of that
place. 1t is generally conceded that
i'll Hickman, helm, Wagner and Fer
guson, Manager Leidy has the best
quartette of pichers in the league,
and with the right kind OF support be-
hind them, these four will win the
majority of their games.
Greenville and Pine Bluff are still
fighting for the third honors with a
'look-in" for the second place. The
loss of Nickens to the Greenville ag-
will cut prominent tie.re in the
last games to be played in the league.
Pine Bluff has not lost pitcher this
year, but the reason for this is that
all four pitchers belonging to this
! club are nothing above the ordinary.
Good support and the best pinch-hit-
ting team in the circuit has won most
of the games for the pitchers who
wear the Pine Bluff uniform.
Baton Rouge and Natchez have the
last places and are pretty apt to keep
them at the end of the season, but
neither CLUB will be far away in the
percentage column. Pender simply
! hasn't the players he had last season,
while Natchez is handicapped by the
loss of manager and mismanage-
ment on the part of those who tried
| to manage the club.
Natchez claims the youngest man
ager in the circuit in the person of
William G.. Breitenstein, who now
has charge of the team. Breitenstein
is but tWenty-three years old and has
been playing professional ball but
three years of that time He is popu-
lar with his men, and has done much
for the Natchez team by way OF get
ting the best article of ball out of the
players since he took charge a month
| ago Natchez also has another claim