The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-22
LET TU ATLANTA
UMPIRE cAMPAU IS THREATENED
 BY THE FANS.
Conduct of Crowd At Baseball Game In Georgia Capitol Has Left
 Montgomery Without
 Houe

It will be with sorrow and regret that the Montgomery followers of
 baseball will read the following tele- graph despatch from Atlanta. received
 by The Advertiser yesterday
 Atlanta. Ga. July 21-Umpire Charles campau called today's game
 between Atlanta and Memphis at the
 end of the eight inning to allow the latter club to catch a train. The local rans, who were out ip large numbers, seeing this action and realizing that
 the home team lacked several runs of leading the visitors. proceeded to at- tack MT. Campau.- The crowd swarmed or the field and only the strenuous ef- forts of Captain W. R. Joyner, several or the local players, and half dozen policemen, protected him to the dress ing room where he remained an hour While additional escort was summoned
 to bring MT. Campau down town and land him safely on the train"
 And so. 1t seems, there are others. When The Atlanta Georgian arose in Indignation against the outrageous &C., ton of the Montgomery "barbarians" and "cannibals" at the game here on Thursday in threatening Umpire Rud- derham. the people of the Alabama Capital City hid their heads in shame
 They did not know until then they were so far back in the woods They had not realized that they could. have been guilty of such "savagery'' as The eorgian stated They trembied with modification at the thought of their Gaucherie. and of the disgrace they nad brought upon the League They burned with the disgrace of having ex- hibited bush league tactics" In smothered voices they offered prayers or thanks that they had had a Gover- a ovA f4 u. =. to that point where redemption Is im- possible.
 Only one ray of hope appeared before the horizon of Montgomery fans in the darkness of their despair and desola- ton, The Georgian had intimated that by association with "decent cities" 1t might have become almost decent" Perhaps. if the other cities of the League would only overlook the awful offense Montgomery might be allowed to remain in the League. and then, by close observation of the demeanor of Atlanta fans toward their umpires they might get tip or two which would enable them to in a measure at feast, rehabilitate themselves. And so, they turned toward the beacon light of At lanta. as announced by the official herald organ of that city, The Geor- gian.
 And now. Montgomery is again cas in darkness. Atlanta is the origin light that failed. The Georgian Is a false prophet. Atlanta has done so much wyorse than Montgomery that serious fear Is now felt here that next year its charter will be revoked. and Chattanooga taken in the League in It's place. Then Montgomery will have no place te look for instruction in de- pertinent, and lacking, that, one knows not what may happen. How is Mont gomery ever to rise beyond the con dition of "savagery" it now occupies unless 1t Is to have some elevating example to foIlow7 The situation has become critical for Montgomery
 Perhaps the most disappointed man in the South. however, is the Southern League umpire. This individual has been a very unpopular parsonage in ident Kavanaugh has several times been notified of the displeasure of the several towns have felt toward the umpire. When he heard of the can nibals" of Montgomery last Thursday, he felt very much abused. and when he read in The Georgian of the atti- tude of the fans of Atlanta toward him, he felt much treasured. Now, however, there is no balm in Gilead
 If Atlanta will show its disapprova1 of the umpire. what will not the oth- CT cities which have not the superior advantages of the Georgia Capital affair reached him in various parts .of the South last night, he felt that It was the last strak. He pulled his cloak over his head, closed his eyag and muttered softly under hic breath "Et tu Atlanta"