The New York herald., 1922-06-05
Bob Emslie Renders a Decision
Which Is Unpopular With
Patriotic DOdger Fans.
BY DANIEL.

lOor, ola, lnOlIenSlNe BOD EmSne' s
name was anathema in Brooklyn last
night. From Sea Gate TO the bridge
heads his well known patronymic was
Kissed in highway and byway. In
subways and rattlers overhead. from
colorful Red Hook to salubrious Ca
narsie and over by the surging tides
of Coney Island Bob was mentally
boiled in oil and thrown to the wild
wolves. For upon the spare shoulders
of the veteran umpire did Brooklyn
fans cast The blame for a nintf, inning
triumph for the Giants over the
Dodgers before a record crowd at Eb-
bets Field yesterday afternoon. by 5 to
4, and the three run rally which
brought about that result.
When Emslie handed down a decision
which filled the bases with New Yorks
in that prismatic. peppery ninth with
nobody out some of the most resentful
onlookers put on the first pop bottle
throwing exhibition of the year. Sad,
.mmutable. immobile as the Civic Virtue
puzzle in City Hall Park. Emslie stood
his ground as the glassware tin<led in
his vicinity. While the situation was
tense and perhaps dubious. the Dodgers
still Were two runs to the good and the
bottle throwers were woefully lack
adaisical. They counted on Burleigh
Grimes to turn the Giants back again.
But when Ross Young plastered a red
hot single into right and scored two
runs the hurlers of Harry Stevens's best
containers grew more enthusiastic and
came nearer the mark. While George
Kelly struck out there was lull to
give the sharpshooters time to hand
Long George wreath of blooming raZz-
berry.
stengels Fly Wins It,.
But when the neglected Casey Stengel
playing a regular position in center
field for the Giants, crashed long sac
rifice fly to Myers and allowed Irish
Meusel to scamper home with the run
which put the New Yorks in front
Emslie was pronounced an own brother
10 the departed Jesse James-a direct
descendant of Robin Hood. Jean Lafitte.
and the forty experts in larceny of Ali
Babba. More bottles rained down onto
the pleasant greensward. more hoots
more cries of "Robber.
When Dutch Ruether, Clarence
Mitchell and Tommy Griffith. acting as
a pinch hitting trio for the Dodgers
and Andy High failed to strike in the
closing half the native resentment grew
greater Emslie walked off the field
robed in all the majesty of his high po-
sition, but il was noted that three or
four times his right hand went up in
stinctively to ward off possible pop
bottle Once or twice his legs may have
sagged or perhaps we were mistaken.
1t was a rip snorting windup to a
rip snorting pitchers battle, that red
hot ninth inning collection of paprika
More than $4,000 fans were jammed into
the park when the ninth opened. with
the Dodgers leading by a couple OF
tallies. II was said to be the biggest
crowd which yet had seen a game in
Brooklyn, and il certainly looked it..
The fans we're out In the field. all over
the stands, in the aisles, here. there and
everywhere. The weather was.sbot the
game was hotter and 1t was New York
against Brooklyn!
With the count TO and Grimes
pitching his best game Of the season
an exhibition reminiscent of his greatest
form OF 1921-the start of the fatefuI
ninth was acclaimed with no great
salvos by the 5000 or more Giant ad-
herents who were/among those present
The chances of the New Yorks looked to
Arthur Nehf. who had put up sensa-
tional battle against Grimes. had been