The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-25
DlSGRACEFUL SCENE Mob Attacks Umpire Rorty, Who Is Neglected by New
 Britain Players. OFFICIAL ENTIRELY RIGHT Refused to Call Game When Crowd Attempted to Fool Him---Othcr
 Contests Close.
CONNECTICUT LEAGUE STANDING.
GAMES TO-DAY. Holyoke at New Haven. Meriden at Springfield. Hartford at Waterbury. Bridgeport at New Britain.
Special to the Journnl-Courier.)


 New Britain, Conn, June 24,--One of the most disgraceful scenes ever seen in the Connecticut league was wit messed here today In the game between the local team and New Haven when crowd of ignorant mill hands made most unwarranted attack upon Um- pire Hugh Rorty. This Is the story of the riot: At the beginning of the ninth with New Haven at bat. needing one run to tie the score. some foreigners we hate to allow that they were Amer icans-noticing black clouds approach ing from the east raised howl for the game to be called on account of dark ness. When Jerry Cornell received a free ticket to first the howl increased to a roar which did not lessen any when. pleiss sacrificed Connell to second. Ward then hit Havel in the side and without a moments hesitation the frenzIed mob left their seats and rush ed on to the field, threatening severe punishme. tt to Rorty unless he stopped the contest This he refused to do as there was afncirtely no reason for 1t. The fon 'n,n got busy and made a rush at Ule umpire and for few mo- ments he was roughly handled. After delay of fully ten minutes the New Ha- ven team. assisted by two Plainville policemen and Manager Paige. the crowd was pushed of the diamond and the game proceeded. Simmons came to bat and Shortstop Waterman and the whole local infeld shouted to Ward to pass him. The local pitcher was wise enough to do this and the corners were all filled with only one out and single run needed to tie the score. The mob realizing this again charged out over the diamond and attempted to punch Rorty Not a member of the home club assisted him and had it not been for some efficient protection by the visiting ball team he would have been badly in jured For fifteen minutes the crowd refused to dlsperse and by this time 1t was becoming little dark and rain seemed imminent Ward began to toss ,, the ball around to the infielders simply to kill time and Rorty, every time he did this, called ball on Zacher, who was at bat. This punishment was ef- fective, for Ward then pitched. Zacher foyed two balls and when a high speed ball came whizzing up to him he struck at lt. Ruflange allowed 1t to get away from him and the bases were cleaned connell, Havel and Simmons all SCOT ing, Rufiange got the ball from some one in the crowd, where 1t had rolled, and tossed 1t to Almeda. who was cov- erlng the plate, and he touched Sim mons. but as 1t was blocked ball Ror- ty allowed the run. Westerberg struck out
 Bunyan, the first man up for the locals, flied out to Simmons and Pa dron came to bat. With two strikes and one ball on him Rufange came dashing out from his bench and pulled Padron away from the batter's box just as Herbst sent over the final strike. Rorty Immediately forfeited the game to New Haven and the score will go as 90 By this time the black cloud had passed over and the condi- tons were ideal for continuance of the game. Following Rorty's decision, the widest and craziest crowd In the state went for him for their third at tack The local team paid no atten- ton to the umpire and again Bone, Cornell and others of the visiting club assisted by the police escorted him of the field There is a one-horse covered peanut stand over in back of the first base bleachers and thither the umpire and protectors headed The proprietor q typical product of the backwoods
 self-important and big as life-refused 10 allow Rorty to enter George Bone pushed through the door and not over gently put him In corner, where he was last seen eating bit of penny candy. After few moments rest in the shed, the umpire and his escort moved out of the grounds and over bS the trolley tracks Here Officer Lanp- ford of the New Britain police force who had helped to keep the mob away from Rorty made mess of things generally and in loud tones denounced the umpire. This of course, set the ig- norant people Into further Insane in~ suits and George Bone and Eddie HaveI in no uncertain tones told the cop what they thought of him as guardian of the law. This effectually shut him up and pll hands boarded a car for New Brit ain En route the same idiotic remarks were heard and upon his arrival at thu central green Rorty was struck in thu head by stone, inhicting q painful in fury. All in all 1t was the worst rio that has ever occurred in the circuit and great part of the blame must bt charged against the New Britain team To sum 1t up they saw the game slip ping away as soon as Jerry Connel reached first and when he got a base further they quit like a crowd of ba. Dies It was all so plain on the face Q 1t that excuses were ludicrous Presi dent Tracey and Kennedy, chief of th' staff of umpires, fortunately wer' present, and when the first outbreal appeared the former came down iron the grandstand and upheld Rorty 1T stall pure and simple and it is hlgl time that Manager Paige puts lttl' true fight in his men, who were show ed up in their true colors today.
 The other scoring came about as fol lows: Cornell in the first inning singled and was advanced on a customary nea bunt by Pleiss. Cornell went to thu warm corner when Waterman dropped Wards throw to catch him off secon o,d scorad m uayelg binpo Simf1on