Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-01 | Page 9 | Forfeit Was Dooin's Fault, Says M'graw

FORFEIT WHS HIS FAULT, SJlfSMlAW Continuance of Game Would ' Have Meant Victory for Phillies. NEW TORK, Aug. 31. Manager John J. McGraw of the Giants gave out a statement today In which he held Man-" ager Dooln of the Philadelphia National League club responsible for the trouble baturday, In the Quaker city, which ro-sijlted ro-sijlted In the forfeiture of a gamo lo the Giants, with a resultant riot. The statement state-ment reads: "It Isn't doing tho game any good the way those fellows acted in Philadelphia baturday. T have seen a great many bono-headed plays, but why 'Red' Dooin should have pulled his Is beyond me. The Giants might have won the game, out the chances wore against thorn for the troublo started In tho ninth, with one down. If Dooin had ordered the center field bleachers cleared In tho ninth w0 would have had to continue the contest con-test As It was. the stubbornness of somebody caused Umpire Brennan to declare de-clare the game forfeited. "I took advantage of tho occasion lo have tho crowd removed from the seats In the center field because the spectators specta-tors there were In a direct line with the batters, waving their hats, coats, and uaing glasses to reflect the sun's rays in tho eyes of my men. "Umplro Brennan agreed with me and ordered the crowd from those scats. They refused to move. The police were unable un-able to get them out. Manager Dooln didn't appear to mako any effort to assist the police. Then Umplro Bronnan declared de-clared the gamo forfeited. I don't llko to go on record, but I believe President Lynoh will not sustain the protest. "Tho scenes following the decision wore riotous. To avort trouble I brought my team homo an hour earlier than scheduled sched-uled and gave up my Bpoclal Pullman. The boys had many narrow escapes from bricks and many other missiles. McLean saved bis bead because his straw hat took away the force of a missile. Herzog was struck by some kind of a hard missile mis-sile and received a slight scalp wound."