El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-12
Contest Was One of the Best
of the Season Up to End
of the Ninth Inning.

Tt was the last of the ninth. The
score was tied, eight to eight. one
player had gone out on a long fly TO
right field. The grand stand, tense
with the excitement which electrifles
the very air, hung onto every ball as II
was delivered from the pitchers hand
until the umpire's decision was given.
Wright, of FL Paso, was at bat. Two
strikes and three balls had been called
on him. Sorrells, the new Douglas
pitcher. tried TO curve the third one
over It broke low and Powell dropped
it Before the umpire called the ball
NE picked it up and stabbed Wright as
if 1t had been the third strike I'm
pire Toman sang out -four balls, take
your base
Cause of the Fight.
Right there was where a crackerjack
baseball game and the quiet of a peace
full Sunday afternoon in September
were shattered into shreds at one and
the same time. Powell is alleged to
have hoved his ungloved fist into To-
mans mask. TOman ordered him out
of the game and patrolman Caplinger
was called TO perform the feat. Captain
Kane. of the Douglas club, came out to
protest His protest took the form OF
1weaking the umps's nose, very I'M
pretty thing for Harry to do. Kane
was Immediately classed with the unde-
sirables and likewise ordered from the
field. He protested AMI the Douglas
players backed up has protest by swarm
ing around him. Kane was finally led
from the field by officer Caplinger,
deputy sheriff Charles H. Webster, and
other patrolmen and deputy Sheriffs-
EI Pasoan Strikes Kane
Chapter 2-Kane was led to the gate
dividing the playing field from the
spectators enclosure. There he was
turned loose to go his way to town As
he went through the gate ne ran amuck
of f c. Searle's fist Searle's excuse
was that the ball player hurled an oath
at him, which is the signal for a fight
the world over, barring only the bush
league ball field. Kane's prOvOcation
Is said to have been that Searle called
him a poor sport as he came through
The gate. The Douglas pitchers nose
was blooded and in an instant he was
surrounded by a crowd Of the curious
Mrs. Kane, the captains wife, came
down from the grandstand to her nus
baDd's side Some one of the crowd eVl-
IDENTIFY made a remark that displeased
her and she proceeded to slap his lace
Anderson Is Sat On
The Douglas players then came over
the picket fence and a general freeforall
fight ensued in front of the grandstand,
with Anderson, the Swede pitcher for
Douglas, mixing things with number
of the peace Officers He was finally
souelched by being sat upon by 3oO
pound automobile chauffeur. Kane
Powell and Anderson were placed under
arrest and taken to the city police sta
zion.
Game Forfeited
Douglas failed to appear on the field
for the extra inning, which was to de-
eide the winner Of the game, and after
giving the club five minutes after the
storm had blown over, umpire Tonan
announced that the game was for
fefted to Ell Paso. nine to nothing. The
FL Paso club was not mixed in the
melee during any stage of the trouble
and captain Wolfe is to be congratu-
lated upon the way he handled his men.
Sensational Game.
Preceding the unpleasant fracas, the
mos. sensational game Of the year was
being played out between the two clubs.
FL Paso had tied up the score in the
eighth with two runs, and the stand
was on tiptoe for the expected wnirl-
wind finish
Douglas had scored three in the first
off of Mason's curves, came back with
another in the second and one more in
the third, when Stanley Gray moved in
from first and Mckay sent TO cover that
bag Gray held them without run IN
til the sixth when they scored three off
of q single, two base nit and three
baeger. That ended Douglass scoring
I'll Paso got one in the first. one in the
second off Sorrells'S general distrlbu-
ton OF free passes to first and Nils
error
Red DOwney'S Work
Another was annexed in the third. In
the seventh. with Flick and Ketchum
on by earned hits, Red DOwney, the new
Texas league recruit. slapped one
through third scoring both runners He
cheated Douglas out Of another base by
clever base running, and scored on
Farthman's sacrifice fly. Red did the
same stunt in the eighth, when he put
one through second. Hewitt, who had
slammed out a three base hit, and Flick,
who had got on with a single, scoring
This won perpetual meal ticket for
the boy with the salmon colored hair
who had just joined the club These
TWO scores tied up the game as Gray had
retired the opposition with fly TO cen
Ter and a strikeout on Sorrells. Then
came the ninth with its regrettable in
cident and the forfeited game
SorreIls pitched a good game Tor
Douglas, getting away better with 1t
than Mason, who had just Joined the
Mavericks. Gray came back in his old
form and with the addition OF better