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Show JOBBED BY THE UMPIRE. Newsboys Win Baseball Game by "Fixing" tho Official. pno of the liveliest baseball games ever played In this city was pulled off yesterday afternoon on 'the Fourth South grounds between a, team composed com-posed of newsboys and another made up of street urchins who have other vocations. The game was not marked by -any brilliant ball playing, but during dur-ing tho contest occurred several fights that wero well worth the gate money. The "newsies" won the game by a score of 2G to 21. It was anybody's game until the ninth Inning, when tho paper merohants had a heart to heart talk with tho umpire and convinced him that it would be unwiso to permit the "newskids" to go down to defeat before a bunch of "scabs." As a result of tho lobbying, the umpire um-pire refrained from calling any one out until tho newsboys had secured a lead of six r,uns, which gave them the victory. vic-tory. The membersof tho opposing team did not tako kindly to. the rather suspicious sus-picious work ofthe umpire and threatened threat-ened him with summary Justice when tho game was over. This precipitated a riot that was not quelled, until several members of both teams had boon somewhat some-what roughly handled. Ah Kee, a Celestial lad, was captain of the "scabs," while a freckled-faced youngster . who travels under the euphonious title of "Happy Hooligan" was tho commander of the victorious nine, |