Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-15
BRASHEAR GIVES
GAME BLACK EYE
VERNON INFIELDER SP0lLS
FINAL PLAY AT CHUTES
Angels Win Last Game from Hogan's
Men In Contest Which Is MARRIED
by Disgraceful Exhibition by
Suburban Player
BY A. E. DUNN1NG

| Los Angeles won yesterdays game
| from Vernon by the score of 3 to L.
| 1t was the concluding game of the
series. This is enough, for a few mo-
ments, concerning the game itself.
! For the first time this season 1t is
necessary to set out in definite terms
the rules regarding profane language
as related to the actions of any mem
Der of the Los Angeles and Vernon
| teams For the first time this year the
fans who gather in the bleachers and
the grandstand have heard a local
player use the kind of talk which not
only violates the ground rules of the
Coast league, but also is an insult TO
every woman who journeys out to
Chutes or Vernon to watch the Coast
leaguers in action.
Kitty Brashear, first baseman for the
Vernonites, is the subject of talk to-
day on the part of every witness of
yesterdays game.
To his shame, that comment is none
too hattering for Brashear disgraced
the league his team and his manager
by deliberately using that kind of
language concerning which the presi-
dent of the Coast league has issued
the following instructions to his UNI
pires, embodied in letter received by
Henry Berry and published in The
Herald of May 29:
wv. H Berry, president Angel
City Baseball association, Dear
Sir: ! did not feel at the COM
mencement of the season that the
umpires would be called upon to
report the use of vulgar or pro-
fame language by any of the play
ers during this season, as we were
practically free from the use of
same last year, and l am now
very sorry to have to call the at
tention of the different club presi-
dents, managers and players to the
violation of this rule.
II am today instructing the UNI
pires to impose fine of $25 and put
the player out of the game for this
offense, and to wire me at once all
such cases.
when player has been
punished for this offense twice by
the umpire 1 will suspend him for
not less than five playing days, and
if the case warrants 1 will suspend
for a longer period.
~. CAL EWING"
Through the efforts of President
Berry of the Angels and President
Brooks of the Vernon club, persistent
attention has been given to this one
fragrant and oft-repeated action of the
players, which is in direct violation of
the rules, and also the instructions of
the league president
RegrettahIe Seventh
In the seventh inning of yesterdays
game, Kitty Brashear, stationed on
third base coaching line, issued an or
der to Happy Hogan, his captain, who
was on third to run home, when Sto-
vail and Hap tried a double steal. In
the stiffness which sometimes occurs
at q ball game, while the assembled
fans, including scores of women, almost
held their breath waiting for the out
come of Haps attempt to steal home,
Brashear ripped out an oath of en-
couragement to his chief which was
heard not only all over the diamond,
but throughout the grahdstand and
bleachers. This is not the first time
this season that such an offense has
been committed. In fact, If ball play
ers were fined every time such an oc-
currence came up, they might be pay
ing the league for permission to don
uniforms in the Pacific coasters, and
If they were thrown out of the game
for every similar offense, some mana
gers might have to call in the small
boys from the bleachers to complete
the lineup to finish the game. But
happening as it did at time when the
stiffness caused it to echo and re-echo
throughout the seated assemblage, the
offense was doubly aggravated.
Toman Didn't Hear
Jimmy Toman, the umpire, claimed
he did not hear the language used say
ing he is deaf in the left ear. That Is
neither here nor there, although it af-
fords Toman a basis of excuse. Brasil
ear yelled at the top Of his voice and
to his shame be it said that his wife
sat in the grandstand and heard it,
Kitty BRA shear is a good ball PLAYER
He is an enthusiastic player as WELL
and therefore those who epthuse over
the national game can find some small
excuse for him in the excitement of
the fray, but whether good or bad, any
ball player who so far forgets himself
is no credit to the Coast league and on
continuance of such actions should be
gotten rid of. Several women left the
grounds yesterday after this incident
Brashear claimed he never knew that
he had allowed himself to use the Ian
guage heard, saying that it must have
been in the heat of conflict. But such
excuses would not stand with an UNI
pire whose hearing is unimpaired and
a league president who possesses back
bone. Brashear is lucky to have es-
caped the incident without a fine and
suspension.
AS for the game yesterday, it was
a hitfest from start to finish, both
teams getting eight bingles. The ina
bility of the Hoganites to land scores
with men on bases lost them the final
meeting and the three runs secured in
the first second and sixth innings, re-
spectively by the champions, gave
them an easy victory, though Hogan
and his mates were always trying. The
| tabulated score:
LOS ANGELES