New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-23
KLEIN BIDS PLAY CO
ON in PELT|NC RAIN
Pirates Beat Superbas After
SpIashing Around in a
FarciCaI Game.
UMPIRE DEAF TO PLEAS
Ebbets Protests Contest That
Goes Six Innings Oozing
with Dampness and
Gloom.

BiIl Klein. who for several years has
been regarded as one OF the best umpifes
I'm the National League. collaborated with
a netting rain in making the third game
Of the series between the Pittsburgh
pirates and the Brooklyn Superbas at
Ebbets Field Yesterday afternoon howl
ing farce.
For fifty minutes. by actual time the
players stood I'm their positions, drenched
to the skin. The diamond was veritable
morass The pitchers box. the ground
about the home plate and the base lines
were ankle deep in mud and ooze. maxi
ing il precarious for a man even TO at
tempt 10 move at anything like speed.
The ball became Shiny and practically
impossible TO control but KLEIN kept the
men AT their task until the last half OF
the sixth inning was I'm progress before
he finally called time
Thanks 10 the wet ball as the Brook
lyn fans" would have it, the Pirates
won the game by score OF TO Cliff
Curtis. who was in the box for the SUI
perbas, forced a run over the plate when
he passed Carey in the nth inning.
Charles n. Ebbets. the chief owner and
president OF the Superbas, protested the
game.
Mr. Ebbets brought out in his protest
that, in his opinion and In the opinion OF
many others. KLEIN should have called the
game in the third inning. when it was
raining heavily. Failing 10 call play
then. KLEIN should have allowed the game
ofp
conditions were no worse at the time he
took his action than before the fourth
inning
Many disgruntled fans" left the field
declaring that the officials of both clubs
were TO blame for the unhappy ending,
and had they taken action In the matter
KLEIN would have been compelled TO can
eel the game The fact OF the matter,
however. is this: Before the game the
officials Of both clubs agreed to start the
game and play II through II they could.
once. however. KLEIN took his place back
of the plate he was in complete charge.
Dahlen did call his attention TO the
weather as did the players Of both teams,
as well as the fans" in the bleachers.
but To no purpose.
The rain began to fall in the third Inn
ing. and soon became so heavy that those
fans" who occupied box seats in the
grandstand moved back under cover. The
fans" in the beachers then began 10 de-
mand that the game be called, and the
players. as they came TO the bat. urged
the officials 10 stop play. KLEIN remained
obdurate. and what started as ball game
soon became a mud strife The boys In
the bleachers stood the drenching until
the first half OF the nth inning and then
suarmed down on the field. marching
around. demanding that the game be
stopped The military police" tried 10
herd them back. but the fans refused 10
be herded. They gathered around Zach
Wheat and asked him his opinion OF
KLEIN Reports vary as 10 the reply.
At the time OF the demonstration Pitts
burgh had two men on bases. pass 10
Wilson and an error by Hummel on
Byrnes's tap accounting for their pres
ence Simon singled, filing the bases.
Curtis then struck out Cooper, the $1,000
beauty from Columbus. and also Mensor,