Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-05-29
R0WDIES GREAT
BALL MENACE

Our country-we hope she may al
ways be right, but right or wrong
OUR COUNTRY"
This is a fine sentiments patriotic
sentiments loyal sentiment says C.
E. Van Loan in the Examiner. Given
as toast 1t made one man immortal.
But apply the same sentiment to a
baseball team and there is a chance for
an argument.
For instance, the baseball team
which is sure Of earnest, loyal support
on the home grounds is fortunate, but
there is such a thing as carrying it toe
far.
The Giants lost the first game of the
season, played on the Polo grounds, to
Philadelphia. McGraw's men could
not hit the Quaker pitcher, and what
did the fans do about it? They waited
a reasonable length of time and then
climbed the fences, dropped out of the
grandstand and went after the umpire.
The game broke up in a disgraceful
row and the Giants started the 1907
season with a black eye and a reputa-
ton for rowdy baseball.
Since then the Giants have not been
doing thing to all corners. They won
about IL games straight. jumping from
the triple 0 in the percentage column
to the 800 division. The New York
fans went wild; they turned out by
thousands, and the Giants were heroes
again.
But all the time Frank Chances
Cubs were trailing the leaders, win
ng their games with great regulari-
ty The pennant race began to look
like a two-team affair, and It was plain
to every observer that the first series
between the Cubs and the Giants
would give line on the flag raisers.
On Tuesday the teams met for the
first time and the batteries were
Brown and Killing for Chicago and
Mathewson and Bresnahan for New
York--each club putting in the star
battery in the hope of taking the ini-
al game.
New York opened with run in the
first inning, and everything was lucky
until the fourth frame, when the Cubs
drove through with a brace and the
sun went out behind Cloud OF gloom.
And in the seventh inning the Cubs
made 1T still worse by scoring third
run.
With the score to / against them
the Giants took I'D their clubs for the
last half Of the ninth. There was a
Giant on second base and Umpire
Emslie called the third batter out ut
the plate and started for the dressing
room.
Ten thousand sentimentalists arose
from the bleachers and hoped into
the diamond. They wanted blood. The
fact that It was all MISUNDERSTANDING
about the last out made no difference.
The main thing was that the Cubs
had beaten the Joints" on the home
grounds. the umpire had given a de-
cfsion which they did not understand,
hence the excitement.
Emslie and Hank o'Day had to light
for their lives. and had 1t not been
for policeman who fired a shot over
the heads Of the mob the men might
have been torn to pieces.
Things have come to a pretty pass II
2 ball team cannot lose one game In Is
without putting an umpire In danger
Of losing his life.
The game Of baseball is one Of the
clean sports Of the country-ons OF the
sports not affected by betting ana con-
ssquently not brought under suspi-
cion.
Rowdies in uniform and rowdies on
the bieachers do more harm to base
ban than any one thing which can be
named Ten thousand proved
hoodlums after two men-a ine spec-
tacie for a New York diamond. Il is
to be hoped that the nsxt time these
thugs leave their seats to whip an
umpire they win be given lesson that
will put about so Of them in the hos
pital.