The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-26
Lemon of Umpire Caused Demonstration. Fitzsimmons and Reagan Were
 Held Responsible. Innocent Looking Goose Eggs of Climbers Speak Nothing of Windy, Rotten And Rowdy Actions
 On Bah Field.

| Never was there started a prettier game than the first yesterday. Never For six innings few were the men who reached first, and fewer still those who
 went to second. Juui and schwenk were In fine form and were getting l Although there were not many strike-outs, the pitchers kept the ball so we'll under control that 1t took eight innings for the eighteen players to get nine hits. One run only was scored and that was as unnecessary as the row that followed it.
 Donahue. of the Memphis team hit to right field. what looked like an or. dinary fly. Reagan evidently thought so. too. for he did not leave his tracks for moment and then starting back ward, turned, circled a little, and miss- cd it. Donahue sped on from first to going to throw to third tried to beat the ball to the bag. Reagan threw straight. and the ball beat him to the caught 1t and as Donahue Slid under him to the bag, the third sacker touched him. Umpire Fitzsimmons called him safe. possibly thinking the was touched with the ball.
 It loked like the man was out and the entire assemblage in the enclosure thought so. They got up and told stne umpire that they thought so, and also told the umpire what they thought of him. They were especially bitter be- cause Persons had been called out at second in the fourth, and seemed far safer than Donahue was. As usual. the team forgetting they have a cap tain, gathered about to talk. Reagan, inexcusably, came in from right field to talk about It. He could not have seen the play, and had he caught the fly the trouble would never have arisen, but in he came and consequent ly was put out.
 Bliss was sent to right field to take Reagan's place, and Redmond who went to the bat for Memphis. sent him a fly as Donahue had sent Reagan. Bliss was playing far over toward cen- ter. entirely too far. and did not get anywhere near the ball in time to stop 1t. Under ordinary scircumstances Reagan would have 1t without the slightest trouble, for almost every game but Bliss went to the field cold and Redmond's ordinary long fly was turn cd into a three bagger; Donahue SCOT ing. Schwenk followed with an imi- out. and Murphy who sent a hot one to Perry saw 1t returned home in time to head Redmond off. He ran up and down between the bases a moment, the ball passing over his head between Perry and shannon then they touched him and ended the run getting for the day.
 Montgomery's Half.
 montgomery WEnt Oul lLC A0pS half of the eighth sore with the un- pire ar al interest in the game was lost. Three sickly infieId outs settled the game.
 At the end of the first game pack of hoodlums swarmed down to the fence to scold like wet hens at the um- pire, who paid about as little attentton to. them as to so many schoolboys He was wrong about the decision. and evi- dently seemed sorry, but if was. too late to change. The bleaehers took up the hooting and Iesiug stghtlef the um- pire. turned theff attention to the police. Just for a chance ito make trouble they started guying one. of the officers, who very wisely, seeing he could ont "sein" the ball park, treated the matter as a joke.
 A mean looking thunderstorm came up just about the time the second game started, but 1t did not rain until the fourth inning.
 ly and simply. One or two half hearted attempts were made at playing in the first and second innings, but all the life had gone out of the evening for everyone present and the steadily in oreasing sprinkle made 1t worse The