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Show oone was broken, and ti e entire left side of his face was badly bruised. Dr. Baxter, who happened t be in the grandstand, and attended at-tended his injuries, states that bis escape from death -was remarkable. re-markable. The doctor witnessed tiie act, and says that if Hausen. had not worn his mask at the t'me he would certainly have bien killed. Hausen was taken to the hospital. Just what caused the trouble is not known. Ma.rshp.1 had stepped to the plate, when pitcher Jensen delivered one ball. The umpiie called it cne strike Hausen returned the ball to the pitcher- and was kneeling down io rjcaive the next one, when sudienly Marshall Mar-shall whirled, looked at the catcher, and thzn deliberately drew his bat back and struck Hausen a vicious blow over the side of the head. In an instant' pandemonium reigned In the grand stand and bleachers, more than 1500 people peo-ple jumping to their feet, cryi g vengeance on Marshall, starti. for the gate leading onto the diamond. Those on the field saw the drift of the situation, and -crowding around the gate kept it locked, so the frenzied audience could not get on the field. The audience appeared to ab-soletelj ab-soletelj forget themselves and hurled all kinds, of epithets at Marshall, and the scene in the grand stand was a virtual stampede. stam-pede. The police grabbed Marshall Mar-shall and hurried bira out of the i field fur the street car, but hun-jdredsof hun-jdredsof people lsf the stand, and as the officers left the ground, crowded around them, and the officers had to virtually 'fight their way to the car. They kept the crowd back as Marshall was put on the car, and the conductor con-ductor was ordered to pull ou! immediately. " .. -r Marsh all was taken to the station sta-tion and locked up. He was see:: at the station later and said that hfriiHtt"5artrc5 .3 fr53v-badass. iha iattoi- had cai.'cd iiitn a viie name, but that he did net intend tD hit him so hard. He seemed to b3 very much worried and asked what couid be done with him. . A number of the Salt Lake piayers went to tha station later to see if they could not bail Marshall Mar-shall out, but nothing has been done as yet. Hansen's condition is not criti-cil, criti-cil, but he is badl hurt. It has put him out of the gamp, for some i time to ccme, and possibly for the remainder of the easiu. j Ball Player Assaulted. Cgden,' June 23. The most dastardly act ever witnessed on an Ogden field occurred duricg the game between salt Lake and Ogden at Glenwood park this afternoon. Center Fielder Marshall, Mar-shall, while standing at the plate, deiiberateiy strucn . Catcner Hausen of the Ogden team a vicious blow over the head with a baseball bat Bausen'tf cheek |