The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-06-11

U U U v T.
Scobey 3 2 0 0 a 0 L Oil
The second struggle on the local
diamond between Scobey and Plen-
tywood Sunday took place with
gale blowing clouds of dust across
the field, although not quite as bad
as the day before.
Davenport took the mound for
Plentywood with Buccholz on the
rubber for Scobey.
The game was marred by the ac-
ton of the Scobey players who would
not abide by the umpire's decision and |
finally ended in ScObey quitting in
the end of the seventh inning after |
Plentywood refused any longer to be
bull-dozed into giving them decisions
because of their rag-chewing tactics. !
Right here it might be said that /
Happy Felsch got in bad with the
fans who saw Sundays game In such
a way that an uprOar is still on which
demands that Happy either abide by
the rules of the umpire in games
which are held hereafter with ScObey
or get off the field. His tactics Sun
day were a disgrace to Scobey and
instead of being allowed to play ball
after such demonstrations, he should
have been thrown in the jug. A GER
tain amount of pickering is allow
able in baseball and certain amount
of defending your rights is permits
sible But when a man comes IN
from the deep center of Outfield and
starts calling the umpire every name
he can think of and waving his arms
liks a wild man, it is time to put him
in a safe place, where he can cool off.
Happy knows he never could get
away with such stuff in the big game,
. but he must think because he is
out on the small city lots he can pull
r the rowdy stuff and get away with 1t.
: 1t is reported that Felsch tried
to pull the same stuff in CANADA when
' Scobey played up there this spring
and the umpire called him and said
= if he didn't leave when he told him,
. he would have an officer escort him
: from the field. 1t is said that "Hap-
= DIV" cooled down after this. Manag-
f ING a team apparently has gone to
Felsch's head, but the Plentywood
Y fans estimation of Happy has dropped
+ to zero, and most of them claim that
o he is only living up to his reputation.
Scobev also played the part of poor
= sports when they quit in the seventh
+ inning after they failed to bulldoze
/. the umpire into giving them some
n thing which they had in no way COM
ing. There is no excuse for the
g team that quits. Baseball as In 9th
;e er walks of life, has no use for quit
!. ter. Baseball fans pay their none!
d to see a baseball game and no team
has a right to rob them OF seeing
- full nine innings when they hav'
70 paid their money for that privilege
ID An umpire is the judge of the pla,
20 and his word is law. 1t this is no
r: so, then why have an umpire. True
+: tumpires make errors. They are hu
10 man, but in most games, with a
to umpire from each town judging tn
plavs. one will even up with tn
6 other. It happened in Sunday
or game when Mcintyre called Scobe
~ man safe when the ball hit at leaS
or three feet outside the fair line. III
To NAV was not even close. PlentywOo
&C Objected to the raw decision but the
on did not Quit. But how player holdln
down center field cen tell an umpn
Ihow to Judge on close plays is b.
IL vond the writer. No a gutter is
Ior I0uitter, and nearly always If yC
look a little further you will find Il
,or reason. Here is the reason wi
a@- Scobev quit, and this is the Opinit
. oarnered from many fans who WI
: messed Sundays game: Plentywo
~ came to bat with the score 3 to l
CT favor of Scobey in the seventh
~ ming. The local boys drove BuchhC
~, from the box. Then Zeiser to
a. the mound and he was being swat
~ oil over the lot. Finally a ball W
IL IL hit to right field, which the field
- bobbled around in trying to stop q
then rolled up close to a car. l
= Ground rules called for only two bai
I,h on a ball hit into the cars. ms T
-. mo was made because a player
NOT have a chance to get hit .
H. when # went back into the aut
NJ NJ On fine hit. three men crossed
DIate with a man on second ana
- body ont. Scobey started to are
-, fret on whether it was far pail
+o~s not then the players took their
eition to play ball, when Felsch
an idea and came running In like
wild man after standing out IN cen
, ,rC, Of 10 minutes. He brOu
0 nm the matter of ball into the G
0 when as a matter of fact the
0 was bobbled by ScObey fielder
0 fore coming near the cars WI
1 naturally eliminated that ruling
1 least it did the day before when
Ibev made a home run on the s
0 kind of hit. But as matter
0 fact the ball did not 60 into the
0 and neither was it block ball,
- bev's own umpire said he could
A make a decision, and when Um
Blaine Dean made his decision
rave an excuse for getting out
had hole. So they quit with the S
5 to 3, a man on third, and no.
E out with Davenport laying them n |.
8 2 in 1913 order. Scobey can allol
1 0 thew wish, but fans who, were
8 0 know they laid down, and then en-.
2 0 of the Scobey men wanted the
0 0 called off. Can you beat it,