The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-08
FORFEITED THE GAME
UGLY CONDUCT or THE sHREvE-
 PORT TEAM.
Visiting Players Put Out of Field D, Umpire Bassett When Mont g0mery Had Fine
 Lead of Runs.

Bob Gilks and his gang of buccaneers l stood as much show of winning yester' 1 days game as duck suit has of look
 ing decent after q drenching rainstorm l Not even d look in did they have after l Schwartz's low throw to Shiebeck fr | the first inning.
 I ing, had them at his mercy and his l game was on plush by a score of to | l, couple of punched Pirate hits in l the seventh giving them run, making the total ' to 2.
 I There is no question of the game however. The Pretzels had the big end
 Yale locks to hold it. It was the un- | sportsmanlike action of the Shreveport l team that had two distinct effects. One | of these effects was to push the tribe of l nation of the Montgomery baseball public and the other was to give this I admiration for MT. Bassett, the umpire. | than was possibly ever accorded an um- pire in Montgomery.
 The Shreveport team came to Mont gomery crippled, Hess, their third base man, having broken his finger in Bir- | min gham, while Smith, their shortstop, l is sick and out of the game. Notwith- standing. this handicap, the team has played the fastest kind of ball during it's series with Montgomery. Bob Gilks has made numbers of friends in Mont
 yesterday and that of his team was, to
 put 1t very mildly, a disappointment.
 From the commencement of the game
 there was palpable disposltion on the
 everything. In season and out of sea-
 son they kept up a tiresome tirade of
 grumbhrg and abuse @ oyer the decisions
 only being hammered consistently, but
 the hits were punched so that with
 some yellow work of the team behind
 shoals.
 All this had put the Pirates way up in the air. and the demoralization be-
 reached in the last half of the sixth in- ming With ono out Molesworth had hit safe and started on a steal of sec looked pretty close, the umpire, who was nearer second base than anybody else, deciding that Molesworth was safe. Then the opportunity came for which the entire team had been waiting since the first inning. Red Fisher, from his first inning, had shown that he was nS pitching ing without any heart in his work and he certainly "beefed." Frank Wei kart rushed over from first base and joined hands with Red in the flow of field and in. jtffy the entire crew of Piratical yelpers were doing their ora torica! stunts around the most abused official in any contest in the world--the man with the stopwatch and indicator
 Fisher and Weikart became so abus- i've | t Gassett after standing just as
 HiAtfl lGSn dHu D1OOu stand ordered them out of the game, park policeman going into the grounds and taking Weikart out of the. inelosure. Bartley went to center field, Gilks to first base and Breitenstein in the box.
 Gardner, the first man up after Breitenstein started in, hit safe and got to second on the play. Shiebech walked and Harry Manners dumped a bunt in front of the plate that Brett enstein got and tossed to Qraffius to stop Molesworth who was steaming in | from third. The Pirate catcher | dropped the ball and Molesworth | scored. Then the visitors were wild | and went up in the air in sober ear | nest: Mccoy hit safe to right and | Gardner scored. Shiebech going to | third and Manners to second. With Lynch at bat Graffius made a | fearful throw to catch shiebech, both | Shiebech and Manners scoring. Lynch | and Busch ended 1t, four runs hay Ing been put over in the inning mak- Ing the score to 1.
 In the seventh Miller was down on ! hit to Shiebech. Graff1us struck out | and paid his respects to the umpire in such amber colored language that Bas- sett ordered him out of the game Then Breitenstein got the second hit that had been made off Mccoy during he game-Hanly in tine sixth inning laVing gotten the other-and scored on Ivans's long fly hit for three bags to 'enter, Kennedy ending 1t. with a hit 0 Shiebech.
 The grand finale and exit-de- -Gilks anne in the last half. Bassett had or tered Graffus out of the game, and he Pirate Chieftain ran up to him