The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-15
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said he wouldn't allow his team to
play. And he didn't.
Umpire Glenalvin walked to the
plate, and doffing his cap to the
ground, announced the forfeiture of
the game by a score of to before
Hendrix had thrown a single ball.
The action Of Manager Hogriever will
cost the men who are putting up for
the Pueblo charity team. the hand
some sum of 800. as specified by the
constitution and by-lays of the West
ern league. This amount must be paid
within ten days, unless the board of di-
rectors of the league pay unusual at
tention to Pueblo's claims.
President O'Nein last night in
statement to the Associated Press, said
that he would take no formal action in
| the matter until he had heard from the
Topeka officials by mail Managers
aogriever and Cooley last night wired
O'Neill their sides of the case, and have
| also mailed reports and President
O'Neill should be able to pass on them
tonight or tomorrow forenoon. In the
| meantime Glenalvin will continue to
| umpire in Topeka.
| 1t is hardly thought here that the
contentious of Hogriever will carry any
weight with the leagues chief execu-
| tive. The general instructions provide
that the umpire shall judge decisions
| from any point which he desires, and
merely suggest that he stand behind
the plate when the bases are not &C.
| cupied. Umpire Glenalvin is unable to
| do this. All his Empirical equipme
was lost in wreck on the way to To-
peka. He has ordered some more and
| means to stand behind the plate as
| soon as he can get the proper safe
| guards of protection to life and limbs
In this connection 1t might be noted
that Jack Haskell, the chief of the
| Western league umpiring staff always
| calls his decisins from behind the
| pitcher.
Umpire Glenalvin in discussing the af-
fair after the game said: 81 might pos
sibly have been wrong in standing be-
hind the pitcher, but if I was I never
heard any rule to the contrary and I
have been in baseball as long as
| Hogriever. Hogriever got off on the
wrong tack, of that there is no doubt.
In case he objected to my standing
to have taken and to have protected
the Topeka club from the necessary
financial loss, would be to have filed a
formal protest with me before the
game. I would then have announced
to the crowd that the game was played
under protest, and it would have gone
on, giving the crowd its moneys worth.
and after that the Pueblo management
could have taken it up with the league
authorities. I may make my mistakes
but l am going to run the game and
all ask is that there be one officer in
the grounds and that the president OF
the league stands back of me- Then ]
will do what think is right, and if any
player on the home club or the visiting
club is injuring the game by his pres
ence. out he goes"
Manager Hogriever wouldn't talk last
night. He just peeved and raved. He
insisted that the newspapers and every
official of the league was in a con-
spiracy to make life unpleasant fol-
him, and to make his pathway a road
of thornS and thistles. He said that he
preferred to whisper his troubles into
the friendly ear of Tip O'NeilI, who
would undoubtedly prove a sweet balm
for all his troubles.
The batteries for the game had beer
announced. Hendrix and Galgano were
the opposing pitchers. and Hendrix gets
credit for winning the game, and Gal
gano gets into the official records a.
the losing pitcher.
Manager Cooley was compelled tt
give out rain checks yesterday. It wal
] / hard luck for him. It was Ladies' da,