Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-06-16
GRANGEvILLE
GUSTS UMPIRE
REFUSES to Let Cottonwood Man
PRESIDE and Forfeits Game to
'io- Observation-Disclosures Beaten
by Nezpercs.

league Dalt game at
Grangeville Sunday between the
team at that place and the Ilo-
Vollmer team was forfeited to
llo-Vollmer by a score of 9 to 0
as the result of the action of a
few rough neck" players on
the Grangeville team who took it
upon themselves to put the off,
clal umpire, Tom Randall, out of
the. grounds before the game
started.
AT a meeting of the team man
ayers and officers of the league
at Grangeville on last Saturday
evening Sam Gardner, of Reu-
bens, Tom Randall, of Cotton
wood, and R. B. Shelter, of Win
chester, were elected, the latter
two unanimously, to act as off
clal umpires for the rest of the
league season and for the games
the next day Randall was station
ed at Grangeville, Gardner at
Cottonwood and Shelter at Reu-
bens.
These selections having met
with the approval of the league
managers, Randall appeared on
the diamond at Grangeville on
Sunday at the appointed time
and started to announce the game
but had hardly begun before the
players seized him and roughly
hustled him from the grounds,
one even going so far as to say
that unless he left town inside of
ten minutes he would be treated
to a coat of tar and feathers.
The action occurred 80 suddenly
that the members of the visiting
team and the spectators hardly
realized what was happening be-
fore the stunt was finished.
In order not to disappoint the
large crowd of spectators who
had come out to see the game
President Slusser then declared
the league game forfeited and an
exhibition game was played
which was won by Grangeville,
John Wilkes, of that place, act
ing as umpire.
1t is stated that the demonstra-
! ton against Randall was taken
because the Grangeville players
were afraid he would not give
them a aquare deal but as they
had not played in a game this
season which he umpired and did
not let him start the game Sun
day this looks like pretty cheap
excuse, especially when the Reu-
bens team and some of the Nez-
perez players have openly admit
ted that they got better than an
even break here in the two league
games played at this place which
were both umpired by Randall
last month.
As a result of the tangle the
league managers were called to-
gether Sunday night at Grange
vile and three players on that
team were summarily dismissed
from the league and cannot play
with any team in the league this
season. This left Grangeville
without a battery and in order TO
adjust matters the league rules
were suspended so as to allow
the manager of that team to sign
new players and continue with
the series of games uninterrupted.
Both the president of the
league and the manager of the
Grangeviile team expressed great
regret at the action taken by the
players and stated that they had
absolutely no knowledge of any
premeditated action of any nature
such as occurred.
It is believed that the dismissal
of the players implicated in the
affair will settle the difficulty
and it is hoped by all that the
game to be played here with
Grangeville next Sunday will re
clean" ball with no quarrels or
chickering's.