Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-20
JESS WILLARD, WHO FIGHTS cUNBoAT SMITH TONIGHT

S CUNBOAT SMITH TONIGHT
decisions they are all honest and as
fair as they know how. The trouble
| is, the fans get sore sometimes at
| practically nothing, and as result
riotous actions like those of last sun
day predominant. Mistakes will hap
pen, and right or wrong, the occasion
| didn't warrant all the fuss. Swacina
overstepped the bounds of propriety,
| but there isn't any word that quite
| fits what some of the fans did. The
| letter of "a Loyal Newark Rooter,"
| which stirred me to these few re-
marks, is printed below in full, in
| the hope that he will not like 1t at
all when he reads it in cold type:
]. P. NJ:
| was fortunate enough to be able
| to attend the game between Newark
and Rochester on Sunday. and |
must say that the Newark team got
some very poor decisions from both
| umpires. l think it would be good
! thing if President Barrow would visit
| some of the games and see some of
| the work that the umpires are doing.
| | am pretty sure that some of them
would be looking for a new job.
| don't see what business Manager
| Camel had for holding Harry Swa-
| Gina from hitting the umpire. l
| think Manager Camel has enough to
| do to look after his own team with
out looking after the Newark play
ers. If 1 were in Harry Swacina's
place I would have hit Camel one
for luck I don't think much of his
idea in calling the police in to escort
Harry off the field. He was capable
| of going off without any assistance.
| I guess there are good many more
| people who saw the game who will
| agree with me in this matter.
Hoping that you will publish this
in your paper and that Manager Can
| eel will see it and take it to heart,
/ remain,
A LOYAL NEWARK RooTER.
| O.
! The Chicago Cubs are going down,
and as a result, it would seem, john
ny Evers, the manager, is going up
in the air. While the Cubs were win
ming everything was lovely and Evers
was smiling. Then came the slump
and king Crab showed his hand
1t was not on what Evers might dc
as a player that his failure as man
ager was predicted. 1t was on just
what he is doing now-stirring ur
fights with his men. Evers Is now
we surmise, in his element, for he has
a big fight on his hands, and just
where he can nurse it along. With
Heinie Zimmerman at the other end
of the battle, some argument is sure
ly in sight.
Down at Philadelphia yesterday the
Evers- Zimmerman feud broke out
Jimmy, so the story goes, tolc
Eyers he was i'll and didn't want tC
play. Evers told Jimmy right bacl
and with stiff upper lip that hi
would have to play or else be sus
pended without pay. Zimmerman
! was beaten-for a moment. He wen
into the game very .thoughtfully ant
in the fourth inning his opportunit,
came. He grabbed it. Without an.
reason at all he gave Umpire Byroi
| | a piece of his mind and was thank
: fully banished to the clubhouse
t Evers, wise man that he is. was wis
} to Zimmy's little trick. He waite,
!, until Heinie got right in front of tn
4 grandstand and then Johnny opene,
t I'D on him. Words that scintillate
: with Billingsgate passed from one I
s the other. But Jimmy was the win
n ner in that Jimmy didn't play tn
/. game out.
The Zimmerman fight is onl
r the renewal of fights of other days
a the days when Frank Chance wa
a managing the Cubs. Back in 1870
when Evers was the great plays
: and Zimmerman was the substitute
Z a war broke out In the Chicago clu
. and Evers and Zimmerman becan
hated enemies. The feeling becan
Ie 80 strong that the men came
lie blows In the clubhouse one day an
+ during the melee a bottle of rul
o down was hurled through the a
e and painful eyes were the resul
W Strange, though. Emmy was kel
II with the club, and Us changes can