El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-15

DisgracefuI wrangling tainted good
ball Saturday and Sunday at Wash
ington park On both occasions were
the MiIIers the chief offenders, meet
ing at both games their soldier rivals.
League officials are stirred to action
as a result of the continual rowing
and fans are disguised with the per
torrance. It appears that the City
league is fast getting in a similar state
as to rowing which so injured the or
ganizatiOn last season
Although at a recent league meet
ing president Art Woods declared that
ali rough stuff must stop, and IN
structed umpire LortZ to can any
PLAYER whose conduct was d1SOrderly,
there was no Improvement SHOWN III
the week end games. In the saturday
game between The I'D infantry ana the
Millers 4 near fight occurred at the
home plate, and the game was rife with
prOfame chatter from the players anu
general rOWdyism- On the whole the
soldiers behaved much the better, al
though catcher ADAMS forgot hlmSelI
on one occasion
In the very first inning there was a
row The umpire called pitcher W ak
er of the AIillerS, who stepped out o.
his box on delivery Almost every
body strOlled out on the diamond, ana
il was with difficulty that order was
kent The pitcher retaliated with some
choice language which should never be
heard In the third LOrLZ again called
down the Miller tWirler for stepping
out of his box, and then the umpire
gave a batter first base on the aSSer-
ton that the Miller pltcher 2galn
stepped out of his box. This developed
in the fourth inning, after the army
had made four runs and won the game
in the Millers entering protest on
the grounds that the umpire should
only have given the batter a ball on
the balk instead OF a base The protest
was countered by one from the army
that the, Millers have IL players signed
instead of only Is as is specified IN the
miles Of the league. A merry time IS
expected at the meeting TUESDAY night
of the league at which the matter VIII
But that was not all. In the second
inning warm blood developed SCme-
thing worse H Grady. running nome
from third collided with catcher
Adams who had the ball, just few
feet from the platter The soldier
catcher asserts that the runner tried
to Jim Flynn hlm-a Ia SOat-ano the
runner declared that his speed was so
great that the collision could not be
prevented. Anyway, the Two cllnched,
and Adams threw crazy with WIe resi-
lers Jerk. Grady came up, squared with
his fists ready, and Adams got into
battling form. Just then umpire Lortz
jumped in, and prevented blows.
The Game a Good One.
The first game Sunday itself was
the army after being defeated by the
MiIIers Saturday afternoon Walker,
recently signed by the Millers, proved
a "spit balI7 artist of some ability,
although his willing rough work dld
the Aillers no good, and on some IN
stances his judgment showed up Win
holes in it Walker comes from some
mysterious realm, and the soldiers
protest that his signing with the Mil
lers has not been duly recorded But
aside from his back talk to the umpire,
he did very well ScamehOrn for the
army pitched consistent ball, and did
some clever work all around
In the second inning the score was
made on Weiss's hit TO center field But
in the third there was some real Iun.
There were three representatives OF
The army on bases. Adams hit TO
second. who muffed it, d high one for
which he mad TO jump. but second
threw wild TO catcher, and by fast run
ming on the part Of the army that let
two runs in. Then POkrent hit to cen
ter field, and brought in the two who
were left on bases. That made four
TALES and the game.
In the fifth Walker hit a bird to
center, too far over for lanky Erickson
II was a double. Then CenOweth
leaned on one to left field and made
second, advancing Walker Kiefer
slammed a line drive through pitcher
and first and two runs sauntered In
Then the Millers proved too eager TO
with the sphere A runner was
nabbed at home and the Millers went
out one, two, three, without any
further heavy hitting. In the fifth
the army got another on AdamS'S hit
The sixth brought in still another for
the soldiers on wild throw pitcher to
catcher. That settled it
Scores