Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-12
THE SPORTING NEWS.
RIOT IN HoLYoKE.
The Umpire Had Sand and Called
 the Bluff.

the Bluff.
 Holyoke, Sept 12.-Beaten fair and square in the first game of a double-header. after a dozen innings of desperate playing. and, realizing that the second game was slipping away from them also and with It was going the pennant to Spring field, the Holyoke baseball club rang down the curtain on the local league season yesterday afternoon with display of unsportsmanship which may be a solar plexus blow to
 league ball Tn this city. By the employment of dilatory tactics, for the purpose of prolonging the game and keeping 1t under the legal i've innings, so that the Ponies might be cheated out of victory, the home players ignored the orders of Umpire Paul Sternberg to cut out their bur lesque, until his patience became ex> hausted and he was compelled to forfeit the farce to the down-river
 team, g to O. At the time the for feiture was declared. the Ponies were leading 5 to 1, and one visitor
 was out in the inning. In that ex. tra inning game the decision went to the Ponies, to 2. | With Sternberg's announcement of the forfeit, several hundred fans swarmed at his heels as he started ! toward the Springfield bench, where
 Pony players grabbed him, and,
 much against his will, yanked him
 under the bench and threw them-
 selves in front of the mob that was
 rapidly collecting from all sides.
 Three police officers in uniform and a few others in plain clothes fought
 their way through the qsurging mass
 of humanity, and with. drawn night
 sticks quickly subdued few blood- l thirsty ones in the midst of the fray, who seemed, intent on takins
 a crack at Sternberg. Only one
 man was seen to make pass at the
 umpire, and that was Ground Keep
 CT John Riley, who rushed toward him as he left the field and was
 really at the bottom of the trouble
 Pitcher William Powell of Spring.
 field, however, was too quick for the
 hotheaded ground keeper, jumping
 in between him and Sternberg and
 landing a rapid right flush on Kiley's jaw as he hurled himself forward
 which caused Riley to retreat in 2
 hurry. Arming himself with a baseball !, bat and surrounded by the police and members of the Springfield
 team, Sternberg left the grounds
 with a small crowd in pursuit. Out
 side of the throwing of two of thu bases into the mob, there was nc , violence attempted, for there were many in the gathering that knew hi umps was. perfectly able to take car
 of himself in rough and tumbl' argument. For the most part, tn ,, mob was made up of boys, with few grown ups sprinkled along tn outside, more out of curiosity thai
 any desire to wreak vengeance ol an umpire, who had only performe' his duty and performed it might l we'll, under the circumstances, a 5 every fair-minded fan present wa ? willing to admit Not Holyok player lifted a hand to help Stern z berg in the hour of trouble, al i though at other times when umpire i have been open to attacks from tn fans, local men were always the frs
 to: offer assistance. ~. -sssf
 What Manager O'Neil Has to Say. 4g,Aften learning for certainty las !. night that, Hartford had been defeat 3 ed and that Springfield had won tn 5 Connecticut {. league championship Manager Dan O'Neil made the fol lowing statement: There's no one i B Springfield as glad that we've wo q the championship, as I am myself I'm proud of the team and I thin the city has the right to be prou
 of the men that make 1t up. They'v given the best they had in them I'm particularly glad that the cham a pionship was settled before Satur e days game so that it will stop tn foolish talk that we were trying t }. bring it to the last day just to dra' : the crowd We wanted the pen ' nant badly if we could win it hor
 estly. The Springfield public r- ha
 stood by us loyally. It deserved
 pennant and I appreciate the sur e port it, has given nie in my fight fo @ that pennant."
 HOW WINKLER VIEWS IT. 5 Holyoke. Sept. 12.-After the fol .. feiture of yesterdays game, Manage U Fred A. Winkler of the Holyoke clu y. made no bones about taking tn ' blame for the fiasco. publicly aC A knowledging that he had prompte