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Show CLIMBERS FINED $300 AND FORFEIT GAME ,-,Zh Washington club has been fined WOO for allowing the game in Philadelphia Philadel-phia td be forfeited, and Manager Griffith Grif-fith and Players Gandll and Schaefer have been fined $25 each for their part In the affair, says J. lii Grilio ln tha Washington Star. President Johnson makes no detailed explanation of his decision. Tie evidently evident-ly Judged the case on the reports be received re-ceived from Chill and Sheridan and ignored ig-nored nil other evidence submitted. He complains of the conduct of the Washington Wash-ington players in objecting to decisions and then says Gandll is lined $25 for trving trv-ing to bit Chill with a thrown bajl while Schaefer Is fined for using unfit language lan-guage to the umpires. Gandll has always strenuously denied tnat he tried to hit Chill. It happened on a rainy day, when the ball was slippery. slip-pery. If Schaefer abused the umpires he was not put out of the game for it a-s is tho rule, but woke up the next dav to find himself suspended. These player's have not been given a chance to plead their cases, and the fact that Umpire Chill violated the rules when he called balls on an illesral deliverv with the bases occupied, when he should have called balks, .'irso is ignored in the decision One other f-ase of forfeiture Is recorded re-corded in the American league. This was a game in which Connie Mack forfeited to the N'ew York Yankees in 1306. Griffith Grif-fith said upon being informed of the lining lin-ing of his club that he would like to know if Mack was fined when he forfeited for-feited that game in New York. |