The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-09-24
Has not the Nerve and Ex-
ecutive Ability.
Shifting Of Umplres for the Akron
Champs Series Creates Storm
Against Charles H.

Youngstown, o., Sept. 90 The fact
hat the leaders Of the o. & p.
eague have been loading up for the
final series in one of the greatest con-
[ SITS that has ever been known in
,aseball, with three teams almost
together, for the pennant, is not al
together to the liking of the fans
who have been following the game
lrom the start OF the season.
II is unsportsmanlike, 70 say the
least and the president of the league
has been largely to blame for 1t.
There has been loading up on the
part of Akron, Youngstown, Newark
and Mansfield Right or wrong, all
he teams have been guilty of the
violation of the rules of fair play
In the games, and the fans have not
orgotten it,.
Newark has been helped along by
Marty Hogan, the manager of the
GAINESVILLE p. o. NJ. league team,
and in his determination to have
Youngstown lose the pennant this
year, he has slightly overstepped him
self.
AT the BEGINNING Of the season
the cry was "oh, II Marty was only
here" Marty wasn't and maybe it
was too bad that he wasn't But
Marty has been doing things that
has lost him friends here and in
some of the other leagues. Hogan is
good manager. No one denies that
But there are others. Since the time
that he contracted to send his players
to the Newark team of the o. G. p.
league after his season closed with
his team a third, he has been losing
friends I'm the city and then some in
the league. 1t is too bad that his
astuteness did not lead him other
wise in this matter, for Marty was
the idol of the city when he had
pennant winners and in the forepart
of this year, when things in a base
ball way were not breaking just right.
AS to President Morton, It is a
certainty that If the o. &P. league
holds together another year that
Morton will not be president He
hasn't the nerve and he hasn't the
executive ability which would com
mend him to the league for another
season.
For instance, who ever heard of a
president bowing to the commands of
his home town and putting in an UNI
pire that they wanted?
In the Akron Youngstown series
when 1t was nip and tuck for each
and every game, Bannon whom there
Is no fairer or squarer umpire i'm the
league, was sent to Sharon, and List
was sent to the Youngstown Akron
series.
Some Of the fans are asking why
Hart should not have been there with
the Indicator and not List. Hart
fears none, as he has shown. He
may not be the best umpire in the
world, but all Akron could not dis
courage him He would be there.
AT that Akron has lost something
with the Youngstown people AS the
guests of the Youngstown team. any
number of fans from the city up the
state could come here and receive
courteous treatment. If the fans
didn't exactly like the people. who
came here for a Sunday or holiday
game that was all right. There was
no throwing of bottles there were
no riots except TO get a good place
on street ear; there were no in
suits thrown at player or umpire. If
a team playing against the locals
made a good play, who were the peo-
pie who gave the first hand? The
fans who swore by the locals.
Ask-the PLAYERS from all towns and