Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-08-04
JEFF ALLEN VICTIM
 OF BRUTAL ASSAULT
Feared Pine Bluff Boy Badly Hurt When Hit with Bat While Serving
 a. Umpire at Monticello.

Jeff Allen, Pine Bluff boy, former coach at Cumberland college, and who has been umpiring in the South east Arkansas league, lies in 9 dan gerous condition at. Monticello, as result Of being struck with baseball bat across the side and back, by member of the Monticello club, at Monticello, during the game Tues day between Monticello and Dermott.
 Reports last night were to the effect hat the attending physicians will not express an opinion as tc the outcome Of the injuries One of the kidneys is believed to have been displaced and to have ceased it functions. and 1t is feared there are other serious internal injuries Allen is said to be constantly in such pain that he can not lie down. Cav hon. the alleged assailant, was arrested after the as- sault, and is at liberty under bond of s5G0, to await preliminary examIna- ton.
 The Dermott News of yesterday thus tells of the occurrence:
 Tuesdays game at Monticello was in errupted in the fifth inning with rough house" such as too frequently marks the games played with the Monticello team. CaWthOn, left field CT for Monticello, was at the bat. and because the umpire called strike on him, he walked to the center of the diamond and win his bat deiib- erately struck the umpire a terrible blow. MT. Allen fell unconscious ana it was sometime before he could be revived. The physician attending him stated over the phone Tuesday night that the blow had evidently been a severe one and that he feared in lernal injuries which might prove fatal. <F I
 We understand several rumpuses occurred but no others with serious results.
 That such occurrences should take place in the league is certainly to be deplored. Were this the first incl dent Of the kind it might be viewed with a little more charity, but the Monticello players have been guilty of similar offenses on numerous oc- casions.
 "Of course we can not believe that tllc UcllCl ciciIleHL Ol uCllliCCllO Cili- zens approve such conduct, but if not it behooves them to openly condemn and put stop to it. Their very si- lence and the fact that they permit such actions to continue is reflec- tion not only on their players, but on the officers of their club and the citi- Zens of their aown as we'll.
 We are indeed thankful that Der mott has been fortunate in securing men who not only can play ball, but wEo also are gentlemen and can con duct themselves as such. We are proud of our players and thers has never been occasion for reproof, but had we been less fortunate in the class of men we secured we are glad to know that we have a manager and other officers who do not countenance ruffianism ands would not for mo- ment keep on our team a player who had shown himself capable of such conduct. !
 MT. Allen has been acting as one of the league <lmpires for less than two weeks. He was the coach at Cumberland college and came here from his home in Pine Bluff. He is an estimable young man of pleasing sonality-courageo and plucky to an unusual degree and highl, re- spected. That he should have suffer- ed an injury is he cause of general regret ill Dermott.'