El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-17
Heated Argument at City
League Meeting Between
Miller and Army Chiefs.

An echo Of the row at Sundays and
Saturdays games between the Millers
and the 22d soldiers, with umpire Lortz
as goat, was heard down in the Cactus
club Tuesday night at the regular
meeting of the City Baseball league
At the completion of routine business
president Art Woods opened up the fire
works. declaring that Wrangling would
have TO stop and that the unSeemly
rows were hurting the games and the
Most of the chin goods were dis
tributed by Harley Kiefer, newly made
captain of the AIilIers, and Lieut. Max
3. CARRIER, representing the 22d infan-
try team. Umpire Lortz was there, and
occasionally defended himself. Warm
were words and. as is customary, ar
bitration was futile
But the meeting resulted in one good
thing Mr.. CARRIER moved that a ruling
be adopted which would disqualify any
player who left his position or the
bench TO engage in an argument with
the umpire, and that the only man who
could make complaint of a decision
was the team captain. This Mr. kiefer
declared would be too eXacting, he be-
ing Of the aVoWed opinion that such
stringent ruling would ruin the league
President Woods said that the recent
wrangling would ruin the league. too,
and 50 it went on. At last Mr.. CARRIER
amended his resolution TO the extent
with the player effected by the umpire
ruling would be allowed to approach
the umpire on the diamond. This re-
moved the Miller captains objection
that the player effected would not have
an immediate hearing with the umpire
and the motion was carried
The trouble was all about the
WrangleS OF Saturday and Sunday. when
on more than one occasion the MilerS
left their positions and crowded
around the umpire The business led
TO near fist fight during the playing
OF the Sunday game. and resulted IN the
Millers protesting the game. which was
won by the army team. The protest
is based on the umpires advancing
batter to first base on a balk by the
pitcher, instead Of merely giving the
batter ball as prescribed in the rule
book LOrtZ, who admits that his de-
clsion was wrong, had two times pre-
viously warned the pitcher to stay in
his box, and the pitcher. a ringer in
the league, had responded with profane
language.
Granting that the umpire was tech
nically wrong, Mr.. CARRIER asserted that
the decision had nothing or little to do
with the Miller defeat, but Mr. Kiefer
declared that just such things turned
baseball bad luck. The army officer
charged that the 8Tillers had rung in a
strange pitcher who happened to be
passing through the city and that in
spite Of this they were defeated, and
so were sore" This charge led rresi-
dent Woods to present a new ruling.
which after some argument was passed.
The new ruling win make it i'm
possible 1or any team to ring in any
of the visiting professionals who later
in the summer will flock through FL
Paso. It calls for a reserve list which
will contain the names of all ELIGIBLE
players in the city, but none who are
not residents Of Ell Paso. Each club be-
fore next Tuesday night may present
the names of 10 players not on their
club lists and these 40 names will
form the reserve list. From this list
players may be drafted TO any team.
and no others may be signed before
the ensuing season.
II player is suspended his name
goes on the reserve list, and he may
not be resigned for 10 days The rule
made earlier in the season that only 13