Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-06-09
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We lost. 4 10 2.
Having broken the news rs gently
as possible the next thing to 90 y
to relate the most interesting ieal-
IRE of the pastime, the same pelhs
that Manager Hester stepped on Um-
pirc gterilng's feelings and almost
drove the arbitef of play out Of the
game. Nothing exactly like u has been
recorded In the annals Of baseball
that IL. nobody out Vt the ball ynfd
Yesterday was heard 10 remark ihhl
he or she had ever seen or heard OF
anything just exactly like A.
The play came up in the seventh,
when things were tight ns "A drum
and everybody was eager for some
thlng to happen, provided u happen
"a right lis boys were ~ the pat
Flcharty was on third. there were
two down and big Frank Huelsmah
hnd his 42-centimetcr gun All sighted
and ready Ia explode. Tho score was
tied up into what the classical writ
ers call Gordian knot, which al
will admit ~ some Knot, To stehl
some stun from the classical guys II
was a tense moment
Three. fingered FRANK swung but
he didn't land solid. The bah took a
wobbly, crazy sort OF motion towards
McArdle at short bouncing hfst hFh
and then low Il wasn't the sort 81
hall that "A man could run In on. ana
the visiting AhurtstOp WIS excusapiN
slow In fielding t. The result vas that
Huelsman aud the BAH reached first
base 40 close together that micro
scope would have been needed TO iiR-
ure il out tmthemaucaily. Slmulian-
eouaiv with the arrival Of liuelsmHn
and the hall ~ first. flehartY arrived
al the plate with the run That broke
the tie, provided Iiuelsman was
safe. Sterling called Il safe "a FIRST
and from the press stand II looked as
n sterling was right
Immediately there arose violent
difference of opinion between Umpire
sterling and thesenure Phoenix team
A debate ensued Va which Manager
Hester was the leader for the mega
tive. His most convincing argument
was a shove vi the arhiter Of play
which sent the latter spinning hair
way across the diamond
Instead Of eiecting Hester from
the game. which would have been
entirely Justified. sterling took of his
protector aud walked sadly and de-
icctedly from the diamond The
crowd at first thought he had for
feited the game to Albuquerque, but
such was not the case With a look
OF pain and sorrow In his ecunien-
anee he marched 10 tho place where
he had left his grip and began max
ing preparations Co leave the park,
"rm through" were the only words
that could be- extracted from him.
Manager Reed rushed us To sterling
and began 70 argue 1ith HIM MY
God. man." exclaimed Reed, you re
not going to let bah player run YOU
out of the grounds. are your I've
seen umpires chase ball players out
OF the grounds, but this Is the FIRST
time I ever heard OF an umpire run
ing from ball player" A little ol
this sort of talk caused sterling to
change his mind. He put his prntec'
tor back on. walked out on the neld
and the game started over again.
In Justice TO Sterling II must he
said that nahhy weakness is his
only fault as an umpire. His deei-
slons on balls ana strikes have been
on AZ times. but that IL something
that IL likely 10 happen TO any um
pire az any time His decisions on
bases have nearly always been ace
curate as one could expect 60 encoun-
Ter in a class y league And It must
be ungrudRmgly admitted that right
or wrong, his decisions have been
absolutely impartial
But almost from the first SteflinR
hns let the players run over him
Local baseball writer's have dealt
gently with him, and have not told
in print of the really disgraceful
scenes that have occurred AT Hope
well field because Sterlirg tidnt have
the sand to make the players bee
have themselves. he has been iostled
ana poked Ia the ribs sand has beer
thrown over him and the BAH has
been given twist which would result
IN his being accidentally struck hi
some delicate portion of his anatomy
Unless Sterling cen summon the
courage to be the real boss of tn,
field. the quicker he resigns the bet
ter for himself and for the Rt
Graude association The fans don
20 out Ia the parl, to see eighteen
athletes hector AN umpire They
want "a see bali game The Duke
as well as the members of the visit
ing teams have been offenders in this
respect, hut Won can't blame the pay
efs--thev are only human. aud they
will 90 inst as Tar as thcy are above
ed. Sumethiug must hc done about
sterling aud i Is up Co sterling 60
say what shall bee Dime
But 70 gel hacll to the bali game
As before stattd. We lost bat at that
Il was a good game with plenty OF
pep and Ninegar and good fielding
ana good pitching There Is no oc-
cagion for anyhudy 90 feel particularly
badly. even u We did lose for the
bows were Ia the game every minut,
If the time ana showed thar theN
have the ability To play for an there
is in H.
A sweet young thing Boa the grand
stand. as she shifted her wad of sun
from port TO starhaard yesterday
called attention 10 the fact that the
Dukes haven't won a game sinc,
George Reed first appeared on The
coaching line in uniform II may be
a coincidence and then again u man
be a INK. If Reed hasn't got street
clothes that ne wants TO Wear out q
the bah park. there are plenty 81
ronters who viii lend him a SUIT FOR
a dsv lust for the sake OF changing
the luck For the breaks OF the gam'