The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-08
Pitcher LindStrOm Caught With Goods, Used Emery Ball
 For No Particular ReaSOf
Worcester Outplayed Locals and Paper Was Uncalled For Miller Sends Grimes Pro test to O'NeiI.

When Umpire Miller submitted his daily report to Big Chief Dan O'Ne1l this morning he also sent along the protest of the Bridgeport club against the Worcester victory yeSter- day afternoon. The protest, submit ted by Manager Grimes, is based on the contention that Pitcher Lind strom used the emery ball on the Americans for at least three or four innings yesterday with the result that the lads from the Bay State won in easy fashion by the score of 10 to l
 The discovery was made by Man ager Grimes in the fourth inning and the ump was tipped off to what was going on. The emery paper and balls on which it had been used were thrown out of the game. After that the visitors quieted down bit, but at that they scored six tallies.
 As the defeat for Bridgeport and victory for Worcester brought about a tie for second place between those two teams, the ruling of President O'NeiI will have a direct bearing on the standing It was said today by one close to Umpire Miller that the latter had urged President O'Nen to suspend the offending pitcher, for there is a rule in the league code strictly forbidding the use of the emery ball.
 The discovery was made through the excellent sleuth work of MT. Raymond Grimes. who was puzzled at the behavior of his players. Satis fled that all was not well, Grimes held a conference with Umpire Mill Ter and a searching party soon start ed down to the infield to search the Worcester players. The emery paper 1 was discovered hidden in Shortstop l Dee's blouse. The paper was confis- | cated by Miller and sent along with | the report today to F1esident O'Neil. | Imme diately upon substantiation of his suspicious Manager Grimes enter ] ed the protest . Why Lindstrom deemed 1t neces-
 sary to use the emery ball on such an occasion in which his team was get ting all the best of the argument is | problematical, as the locals seemed | helpless. Lindstrom is considered | good twirler, but he surely shows a | lack of confidence in his own abil- | ity by the use of the emery ball. Were | the game a close one perhaps one
 could understand why he used the pa l per, but, on the contrary, it was an l ll-Worcester affair and the move
 was entirely unwarranted.
 l Worcester hit Marty Walsh hard 1 and effectively and at opportune l times, too. He appeared fatigued | and tried his level hardest to stop the 1 rapidly advancing enemy, but with
 out success. But, after all Marty perhaps was the hardest worker on
 the team and defeat should not all
 be blamed on him. He was given
 miserable support. He had to work ! himself out of deep water into which | ha 1itara Ivy thrown through the 1 cratic playing of those back of him. | The Worcester aggrega tion, on the | other hand, played consistent-the l best exhibition that team has given
 here this season. The players lost
 no time in batting out runs for two
 tallies were recorded in the very
 first inning. Potteiger singled to
 right and continued on to second on Kenneth's attempt to get Gardella at
 third. A passed ball let the Italian lin. Skiff threw to the plate, but
 Walsh missed catching the pill and
 Potteiger scored.
 Another run came in the third
 when Potteiger led Sef with dou-
 ble and took second on Johnson's sac
 rifice. We're promenaded to sec
 ond. Tyler let loose a high one that
 should have easily been brought in, but an Alphonse and Gaston act l Iaueered it. Potteiger scoring. This
 was the beginning of the Americans end, for after that there was nothing to the game but Worcester.
 The Americans left this forenoon
 for New Haven where they do busi- ness with Danny Murphy's Murlins and, judging from the way the two
 teams have been going, it is going to
 be a mighty hard game. The two teams are bitter rivals and the games in which they have figured thus far this season have been brinful Of ex-
 citement and thrills.
 Eddie Lennon the University of Niagara pitcher, who joined the
 Bridgeport team two years ago. being
 brought here by Paul Kriche1l late in
 the season of 1917, is in for a yellow ; slip Eddie has not been measuring up to form lately and with new play
 CTS at the service of the local club,
 the Americans will probably say fare l the-well to him today.
 There was some talk about town , today that Herring would go. but l why this pitcher should be let 90 Is