South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-11
CANADIANS WRECK
STANDS TO GET AT
UMPIRE MAHONEY
Take Professional Game Seri.
ously and Threaten Ar
bitter with Hanging.

MONTREAL, June TO- Omcials
OF the Eastern Canada baseball
league Saturday notified the manage
mcnt of the Three Rivers club that
it must put the brakes on umpire
batting
They made it plain that while they
did not object 10 a little "razzing'
now and then. il was carrying IL too
far when within a week spectators
had threatened to lynch one umpire
and chased another out of town.
While league officials in Montreal
could do nothing TO the frenzied
fans they melted out prompt punish
ment 10 one player involved I'm the
second upheaval by hning him $500
and suspending him
a searching investigation Of the
two incidents made from Montreal
has developed that residents of the
French-Canadian village OF Three
Rivers. on the banks OF the st. Law
renee about midway between Mon
treal and Quebec were taking their
professional baseball very seriously.
Umpire i'm Danger.
The Three Rivers club was only
recently added to the circuit, which
embraces Motreal, Ottawa and Val
ley Field.
Three Rivers drowsed through the
winter without undue excitement
ment until il became the headquar-
tiers for the hunt for Canadian wit
nesses in the Sullman divorce case.
When that excitement subsidized it
looked forward expectantly TO the
opening of the baseball season.
From the very first it became evil
dent that Three Rivers was out to
support its home club to the bitter
end When on June /, Umpire Bru-
neau decided against a Three Rivers
player. disaptChes received here that
the grandstand was nearly demolish-
ed as the rooters searched for am
munition with which TO lombard the
umpire
Threatened With Moose.
Escorted by police the umpire
avoided a crowd awaiting him out
side the gates with a moose and as
soon as he had left town dropped
a note to Joe Page, former scout for
the Chicago Nationals and now
president of the Eastern Canada
league. begging to be excused from
officiating in Three Rivers again.
A dispatch on June stated that
Umpire Mahoney had been trounced
by a Three Rivers crowd for calling
Montreal player safe.
Additional details obtained after
Montreal officials had investigated
the disturbance showed the specta-
tors at first confined themselves to
shouting "Tuons rArbitre'' - the
French equivalent of xiii the I'm
pire."
But Catcher Bailey was alleged
not to have taken the decision so
calmly. Apparently di s amin g
merely to step on an umpire's toes
or fling dirt at him-the prevailing
practice on American diamonds this
season-Bailey knocked Mahoney
out.
Chase Arbiter.
When the umpire recovered con-
seriousness his first words were to the
effect that Bailey was fined $50 and
banished from the game.
This was too much for the stands.
Several zealots took up a collection
OF $50 for the catcher. Others
romped on to the field and as Ma
honey sped toward the gate they fol-
lowed
jumping into a hack Mahoney
dashed through the main street pur-
sued by a squadron Of automobiles.
He reached his hotel just ahead of
his pursuers. but prodding and
punching him they followed him to
his room.
Mahoney escaped from town by
boarding a train for Montreal, while
a large part of the town was camp
ing on the wharf waiting for him to