The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-03
 LATE ARRIVALS. First Game Declared
 Forfeited. FINN WILL APPEAL RULING Only Game Played Goes to Little
 Rock, $ to 1. Walsh Loses Control in Third, and sam weems Is. Unable to Hold
 Down Hits at Critical

more lucid, forceful and pointed complication of the theory of retri- butiye justice has never. been witness ed than when a large package of that same was handed to Montgomery Base ball Association yesterday.
 After forcing numbers of people away from the game by. announcing the fact yesterday morning that the price of admission to yesterdays double-header would be doubled. the local management not only lost the extra money by the failure of the Lit tie Rock team to reach Montgomery in time for a double header. but bare ly escaped shut out in the second game. the Travellers winning easily.
 When the people reached the grounds In time for the. first game of the with the fact that not only had the price of admission been doubled, but that every holder of an annual pass would have to dig down in his jeans and come up with 50 cents before there would be an open sesame at the gates.
 Then troubles began to pile up, when it was announced that the Little Rock team had not shown up at the grounds. and while some of the people went on in, the majority waited in the long walk from the car line to the gates.
 About 2:40 o'clock Walsh pitched three balls across the plate. the Mont gomery team all being in position. AS the Little Rock team was not there, Umpire Frank Rim walked in front of the grandstand and announced that the game was forfeited to Montgomery by a score of to O.
 For one hour and a half longer the crowd waited, Manager Malarky stat ing that in order not to disappoint the people any more than possible, he would not claim the second game by forfeit at 1 o'clock, but would wait till the last possible moment on the Little Rock team.
 At nearly 4:30 o'clock the Travellers reached the grounds and almost tm- mediately the second game was started before a crowd about the size of an ordinary weekday attendance, when conditions are good.
 Little Rock won this game by a score of to l. and, according to the decision of the umpire, Montgomery took the first game by a score of g to o. Last night, however, Mike Finn, manager of the Little Rock team. claimed that under the constitution or the League, the game could not be tor- feited against him; as the failure or his team to reach Montgomery in time was the result of accidents on the rail- road, for which he was not responsible:
 q left Little Rock Sunday morning., he said, "and arranged my trip so as to reach Montgomery at Il o'clock, Ma larky having told me on his last trip to Little Rock that a. a<double-header would be played in Montgomery on the afternoon of Labor Day.
  and went out to the Memphis-Nash- vile game Sunday afternoon, leaving Memphis Sunday night. and reaching Birmingham in plenty of time this morning to catch the Louisville ana Nashville train, which should have ar- rived in Montgomery at Il o'clock.
 We left Birmingham exactly two hours late, bad engine having delay ed the train all the way to Blrmlng- ham. The same engine. however, start ed out of Birmingham with the train.
 "At several points along the road the train was stalled, freight engine having to push it much of the way. Seven miles out of Montgomery the en- zine quit again, and they wired here for another.
 When we finally got in, it was after 4 o'clock, and without stopping even to wash up, we jumped in bus and hurried out to the ball grounds. In- stead of reaching Montgomery at Il o'clock this morning, as had arranged. I got here at 4:3o this afternoon, and I am pretty sure that will not lose the first game.
 Umpire Rim and Manager Malarky claim that as the Little Rock team played the last game Saturday after noon and was not scheduled for Sum day, it should have left Little Rock Saturday night or at least have reach ed Birmingham Sunday night and come to Montgomery on the local train yes- terday morning.
 Just who is right in the controversy will have to be decided by Judge Kav- anaugh, the two games going in the standing as an even break for Mont gomery and Little Rock until his de- cision is given.
 But to get back to the only game that was played, Walsh was in for the locals, with Walters, Films south paw, for the Travellers. A couple of punched hits in the second inning put in the first Little Rock run. not hit having been made off Walters.
 Tn the third inning Walsh seemed to lose control. and a couple of bases on balls in succession, with a hit batter filled the bags with none out. Then Sam Weems went in and a clean hit to right by Miller. scored Page. Nadeau getting the hall back to Hausen in time to cut off Wood at the plate. Then Weems hIt Bowcock filling the bags again, but great catch by Ball pulled him out of the hole with only one tally against him
 In the last of the third came the first hit off Walters. Bill Hausen get ting it. clean one to left.
 Hits by Baxter and Perry PVith Ball's s infield hit put in the only run for the locals in the fourth inning.
 In the sixth an error by Weems. a base on balls. and three punched hits --One of them a two- bagger-put in three more runs for the Travellers, making the score to 1 in their favor Bunched hits in the ninth put in one more and the game wound up to in favor of Little Rock.
 The score was: