Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-09
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His action in given orders TO have
the newsboys who sell the Evening
bali park gives US a more correct line
on this gentleman, who has just
broken into baseball, and who per-
haps, has an idea that he can get
away with such a petit larceny trick
as he perpetrated yesterday. Solo
mon is a mistake in baseball. His
batting average is nil now and he is
getting no better very fast. With a
grand ball team he doesn't fit into
the picture at all, and Messrs. Eb-
bets and the MeKeevers better come
and get him before he spoils the whole
show. The ball players dislike him
and ignore him and Manager Harry
Smith doesn't want him around. He
is not going to get by with his cheap
tricks, either, for he isn't big enough
for that.
The New York club in appealing
from President Lynch's decision in
the Giants Phillies controversy IS
playing the game as it should be
played. AS to the case in point, I'm
pire Brennan was positively the best
Judge, and being the judge, his YER
dict should have been upheld. In
reversing his umpire, Lynch, it is
generally believed, played low-down
politics, and this he is sure to dis
cover when he comes up again for
reelection. The decision made by
Brennan had to do with ground
rules and while baseball laws didn't
actually cover the case good, sound
Judgment, it seems. was displayed
by the umpire With spectators
waving their handkerchiefs, their
hats and their arms in the bleachers,
Brennan declared he couldn't see the
ball and asked the Philadelphia man
agement for the removal of the
fans, at the refusal of which the UNI
pire, with rare nerve, declared the
game forfeited to New York by the
score of to 0.
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Listening to the hue and cry of the
Philadelphia populace, President
Lynch. in view of the fact that the
score was to in favor of the
Phinies in the ninth inning, when
the trouble started, reversed Bren-
nan, giving the game to the Quak-
ers. Now the Giants are taking the
case to the board of directors of the
National League. What will be their
verdict matters little just now. Later
on it may amount to whole lot.
That's why the Giants have made
the appeal. II the championship
should come right down to that con-
test it is about the surest thing in
the world the game would be or
dered replayed, Notwithstanding that
the Phillies were leading, to 6, with
one man out in the final inning of
play. The verdict of the umpire, I'M
der the circumstances, seemed to be
positively fair. Philadelphia, with
the game practically won, refused to
protect the best interests of baseball
by clearing the bleachers of objec-
umpire. Instead, the manager and
the management rested on their oars
and openly gave the official the
laugh. The official, in turn, however,
gave the Giants the game and the
ha ha was on the other side of the
face. Then President Lynch came
in with his rain check and spoiled
q fair and square decision, notwith-
standing the absence of any rule to
specifically cover the case. Surely
there is no rule, here or abroad. that
fits the Lynch decision. He spread
himself when he gave the Phillies a
game which they had never right
fully won. The worst the Giants
who never even put a finger in the
pie--could expect would be a chance
to play out the last inning.
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This discussion is brought up again
in these columns for two good reasons.
One is the present controversy over
the National League presidency and
the other is the various arguments
advanced as to how pools should be
decided in cases where games are
forfeited. AS to the league pres
idency. the average fan is not so
much interested as to who sits in
the honor chair, but when it comes
to the disposition of the actual con-
test, why that is another matter en-
tirely. out for Lynchs job three
men of considerable prominence are
being mentioned. One is Edward
Grant Barrow, president of the In
ternational League. and the others
are Joseph O'Brien, former secretary
of the New York Giants, and r. w.
Brown, a very clever newspaper man
of Louisville, Ky. The position is
not sinecure by any means and the
president earns his salary. Still,
there is always some one who is Will
ing to sacrifice himself for the
good Of the game" and maybe Mr..
Lynch will step down and out in or
der to give either Barrow CT Brown
or O'Brien an opportunity to make