The Washington herald., 1907-05-22
TO-DAY's GAMES.
81. Louis at Boston.
Cincinnati at BrOkIyn.
Chicago at New York.
Pittsburg at Philadelphia

New York. May IA pistol shot,
mounted cop. infantry cops. and Pinker-
ton men all figured in a disorderly out
break that followed the baseball game
between the New Yorks and Chicagos at
the Polo Grounds to-day. Umplres have
had troubles with crowds here before.
but to-day was the first time a gun has
been brought into action at a big league
ball game in New York
City cops are not assigned to the Polo
Grounds this season, but the crowd was
big to-day. and they were close by i'm
case Of need. Two of them put I'm an
appearance as soon as the game was
over. and bore the two umpires close
company as the latter left the field for
their dressing rooms under the grand
stand
The crowd. several hundred strong
closed i'm on the umpires, Hank ODay
and Bob Emslie, and their bodyguards,
throwing bottles and newspapers and
giving vent 10 loud expressions OF what
they thought of the two officials Of the
game. whose decisions had not been
pleasing TO them.
Tie police would not let the crowd any
further than The entrance to the passage
way leading TO the dressing rooms It was
/ there that one Of the cops reaches back.
yauked out his gun. and fred in the air.
He had more room just after the play
with the weapon, and the missile throw
/ ing ceased with suddenuess Take that
/ cops number yelled a spectator. and
I this one man proceeded 70 DO.
Meanwhile the riotoGs scene had
| brought other police 20 the grounds. and "a
mounted policeman from the Speedway.
The mounted cop scattered the crowd,
! bat a thousand or more men and boys
stood around until the umpire emerged
TO go across the field 20 the gate az the
/ club house
Hank and Bob smoked cigars uncon-
/ cernedIy as tley trudged across the plain.
f8nked by cops. and with the crowd tag
giHg at their heels. Pebbles and papers
followed them at every step, and one pa
/ per knocked off Emslie's hat and one peb-
+ bic struck a cops helmet Up the run
anu a-'.aa AN t-.' il'4 1T Haai tL Ll-f
| l55th street station the ump,res went
| chaperoned by the cops.
Neither I'm Best Form.
/ The New Yorks were not in their best
Z form. nor the Cubs either. for that mat
/ tor but the latter showed some clever
inside bali eEcauing the locals i'm this
f respect and winning by better playing.
4 The Chicagos had tantalizlng trick
Of bouncing the bali around the indeld az
/ all sorts of unexpected angles and mo-
ments BY doing this they were able to
make their hits count more than did the
/ New Yorks. and they were helped along
in their scoring spells by the errors OF
/ Bresnahan.
/ Bresnahan's bungles turned the tide
/ Chicago's way. for the New Yorks did
some fast and alert fielding when the
/ Cubs were chopping the ball, fieldine
which, but for Bresnahan's miscues
would have been an effective antidote foI
the Cubs cagey cloutng. Both Mathew.
son and Brown pitched strongly, the Chi
iCaEoan having q shade on the New York,
in keeping the bingles scattered. Three
times the New Yorks hit into double
plays. and this was a factor Of no near
import.
J The savage soiree opened brightly fol
! New York.
Three Cubs went out on fly balls in the
first half of the first inning but Shannon
opened the second half with rap which
tore its way through Joe Tinker's props
( Strang advanced Shannon with his out al
first, and Devlin drove delightful liner
to left which brought Shannon through.
Not a Chicagoan reached first in tho
first three innings.
There was a brave but futile attempt by
the New Yorks to tie the score in tho
eighth inning.