Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-03-10
News and Comment
Written by Experts
BY LAURENCE REDINGToN.
twenty fifth Infantry =, All.Chi.


| fair or so incompetent, or such com
| bination of the two, that when he
has handed game to one team, the
manager of that team is willing to
consider the contest draw, il is hard
to tell how that game should figure
on the records. That was just what
happened Saturday afternoon, when
Umpire Patterson of the Twenty.
fifth Infantry won the game from the
ALL Chinese, and when Lieutenant
Saunders, manager of the team, read
lily consented to an even split of the
gate receipts, instead of holding ont
for the 20 per cent to which the win
ner was entitled, and later expressed
his perplexity as to whether the game
was a win or draw. -.~.
1t was too bad that one of the Lret-
TEST ames seen in some time should
have broken up in dispute, and
still more unfortunate that Patterson.
the man who by an inexcusable blum,
der, or worse, started the whole trou-
BILE i'm the ninth inning, should have
been in a position to render the final
verdict from which there was no ap-
peal. Ii was up to Patterson, umnir-
ing behind the plate, to say whether
a Chinese run in the tenth counted
or not. He positively affirmed that
the third out of the inning WAS made
between first and second before the
runner touched the plate, claiming
that he was watching the arm of the
field umpire for the signal, and saw
the man waved out before the run
scored. Therefore, officially, the run
did not score, and the game goes on
record as to / win for the Twenty
fifth over the All-Chinese.
Really Tie.
The writer, in common with about
80 per cent of those in a position
to see the play closely, is quite GER
tain that the run counted, and had
scored it as a matter of course before
Patterson gave his ruling. The Chi
nese players and sympathizers to
man refused to accept the ruling.
Many officers and men of the Twenty
fifth felt Inundated that member
of the regiment, acting as an official
of whom impartiality was expected,
should have so fractured the laws of
fairness. But all this counted for
less than nothing, for Patterson had
the final say, and he said what might
have been expected from his previous
behavior.
!. The finale Of the game was one vast
dispute, i'm which both aumpires ar
gued with each other with the mana
gers and captains, with the players,
with the peanut butehers--in fact.
with anyone who happened to yank
them by the coat sleeve and tell them
to go to Hilo. Meanwhile two orna-
mental policemen looked on with
happy smiles, and made no move to
clear the field, or to assist in restor-
ing order. Motley. who was on the
firing line with the colored gentle
man from Leilehua, was evidently
working with perfect fairness, but was
up in the air mile, and couldn't
handle the situation. His decisions
were so much better than Patterson s,
however. that by comparison he
looked like big league arbitrator.
To understand something of the
why and the wherefore of the rue
ton. one must start at the ninth in
ming. For eight and a half frames
1t had been just a game of baseball,
albeit very good game, each side
having scored single run.
Ump Gets In Game.
In the last half Of the ninth, En-
Sue, head of the Chinese batting list
and first man up, laid down hunt
toward first and streaked IL for the
bag. Waterhouse rushed over from the
box, grabbed the sphere, and threw
it away over the first baseman's head. |
Right here Patterson pulled of some |
thing that was brand new, on this
lot an any rate. If an umpire did
the same thing anywhere else, the
right field bleacherites would descend
and tear him limb from limb. Stand |
ing behind first, just outside OF fair
territory. he stuck out his hand and
knocked down the wild heaye. Now |
it's hardly reasonable to suppose that
Patterson did this purposely No
umpire would dare to get into the
game with more than his voice, no
matter how partisan, but the instinct |
i've action showed how hard he was
pulling for the colored soldiers to
win. Immediately Patterson waved
En- Sue on his way. and then called
him out at third when the ball was
fielded there and put on him. or
course there was a roar that reached
high heaven, both teams and most of
the spectators within reach converg-
ing on the field and doing the Roman
mob act around the umpires and man.
ayers. Motley first contended that
En- Sue was entitled to third, and
then waved him back to second.
where he sat in lonely state for about
twenty minutes while the storm ragged
around the plate. =....I
The Twenty-fifth contingent charged +
with drawn rule books, chanting Sec
ton of Rule 81, which reads.
IF thrown or pitched ball strike
the person or clothing of an umpire
On foul ground the ball shall be con.
sidered in play and the base runner
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