Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-15
THE DIAMOND
BAD WAS THAT
 BREAK YESTERDAY
Springfield Forfeit. to Hartford Players After Being Done to
 a Frazzle.

Here is the way Sporting Writer Sullivan of the Springfield Union feels about that fiasco with Hart ford yesterday:
 Perhaps 1t was to preclude the probability of anything worse than 9 to o walloping that caused Springfield. to forfeit to Hartford on Hampden park yesterday at the end of the. eighth inning, but if that was the motive behind the move 1t failed dismally. For, added to a g to Q defeat actually administered, there was the odinms of actions that have no proper. place unless it be in a kindergarten. 1t looked like a case of quitting: cold.
 "On savage slamming and clever all-around. ball playing, fortified by the strong pitching of Evans, the Senators had held the Ponies Tn check while amassing nine runs themselves. Babyish byplays had predominated after Umpire, Rorty had rendered a wrong decision on Rising in the second inning. But if any ball player, after making a blunder land they all make them. just like others) had 10 stand for the amount of abuse that was given Rorty, he would be among the. first to seek solace.
 When Springfield < found itself well trounced, the players took to tormenting the official, the climax coming after Fitzhenry kept bobbing up on the coaching lines, though he had been repeatedly ordered to the bench Here Rorty aided in the farce by tolerating the thing and threatening a fine when he had ann pie provocation to slap on the fine without letting Fitzhenry become accustomed to prominence. Finally there was nothing for the umpire to do but order Fitzhenry from the field, but these orders were ignored.
 Rorty showed far more patience than a competent official should have. He walked over to the Spring. field bench and practically pleaded with. the player to leave the field. Manager O'Neil never made move and Fitzhenry apparently took that as backing. In fact, there could be no doubt that he was being backed up in his course. Rorty was at last obliged to call for a watch and when his orders were still disobeyed he ordered the game forfeited to Hart ford. The taunts thrown back by the visiting players were well mer- ited
 Tn the second inning the trouble began when Rising started a steal after getting pass to first Pop had big lead and would probably have made the bag in safety. "A passed ball was clipped in and Ris- ing claimed he had right to take third under the ground rules. Rorty held that it was one base only. On the logic of the thing the runner should have been entitled to another base and Owner Clarkin of the Hartford club stated that was his understanding of the ground rule which had been made. a
 "RortyTefused to budge and Ris- ing refused to leave the field when ordered. But Rising changed his mind. He was going 10 lick the umpire, but Manager O'Neil told him to wait until after the game. When the game was over Rorty didn't hesitate to give his opinion of the treatment accorded him, but Ris- ing didn't appear to carry out his threat
 "As for the game itself, 1t was all Hartford. The drizzling rain had caused players of both teams to think there would be no game, and the result was a delay. that brought the starting time to 4. o'clock. Man. ager Dowd of Hartford objected to playing under the weather condi- tions that prevailed. but Dan o'Neil, Jr, who was in charge at the time. stuck to his privilege of having the game started The score: