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Show IRATE FANS HOLD HELD A PRISONER IN UMPIRES' ROOM Crowd of Three Hundred Collects Outside of Gates Demanding Red's Scalp; Rescued by Police After Hour's Siege; Trouble Starts When Decision Robs Salt Lake of Chance to Win Game. At Salt Lake Vernon 5, Salt 1 Lake 2. At San Francisco, first game Njj-Portland 2, Oakland 1 (ten in-ngs). in-ngs). Second game Portland , 4, Oakland 3. At Los Angeles San Francisco Francis-co 0, Los Angeles 6. j jMPIRE RED ' HELD 'S long-con-I I tinued defiance of the people of I J ShU Lake come mighty close " to ending Bed Hold's career as an umpire or anything else yesterday. Held has been inviting trouble for two weeks, and yesterday afternoon be probably came closer to getting it than even he , figured on. After the ball game a crowd of about 3Q0 howling dervishes collected outside the baseball T'l&nt aD(i shrieked for Ked 's gore. There were two or three internecine fights among members of the mob and once a policeman was busted in the eye. However, it was Held whom they wanted and they stuck to the lines for more than an hour. 4 During the hoar Held was a prisoner in the umpires' room under the grandstand, grand-stand, with his fellow unijis, Kitty Brashear, as consoler. Once or twice Red essayed a pally, but he quickly beat a retreat when the cries of the indignant besiegers reached him. After a time the police department sent down the patrol wagon and three or four policemen. po-licemen. The crowd dared the police- Y nien to carry Held away and threatened threat-ened to overturn the patrol auto if an attempt was made to get Held into it. , ;f"Gets Away Safely. V After another lapse of time a full f- autoload of policemen appeared. Held was squeezed aboard the car and away it went, accompanied by a small shower show-er of stones. An opportunity had been offere'd Held to escape in'lbe patrol wagon, but Red's esthetic soul revolted at riding in the Black Maria. Also, Red no doubt saw that the police p.quad that accompanied the patrol wagon was email in numbers, as compared "with the horde of infuriated men who were after him. The immediate troublo arose in the seventh inning. That was the only k inning in wbifh Salt Lake had a chance to win the ball game, and Hold's decision de-cision certainly robbed them of that chanco. Trouble in Seventh. After one run had been forced across with bases on balls, Howard Gregory was inserted as a pinch hitter hit-ter for Piercer. There was cwio out at the time. Gregory hit sharply to Gleichinann, who fumbled, but recovered recov-ered in timo to throw to Johnson, who covered. There is no question in the minds of those who saw the play that Ciregorv was safe by feet, but Held " called him out. As that made the second sec-ond out, there was small chanco of doing do-ing anything further and the side went out with tiie only two runs tallied by the locals. The ire of the fans was further roused in the eighth, when Swede Ris-berg Ris-berg hooked second base while By an and Orr were doing Pome delayed fielding field-ing of the Swede's hit to left. , After calling Bisberg safe, Held took up his station at third base and that act wa speedily followed bv a bombardment bom-bardment with missiles of various kinds. A few bottles, many cushions and a 4 large number of rock's of various sixes, from pebbles to bowlders, were hurled . in Held 's direction. The game was W alted for a considerable space to clear STA TDING OF THE CLUBS. s J , s 3! a a E 3 2 I : I 1 t: I ? & i CD ! . . 9 ''. '' ' ' Los Angeles . . . .12221120 15 1997 .591 Vernon 12 . .Il819 19 30i98 .573 Salt Lake 11 13. .19 17 22)82.503 San Francisco. 13il6;16L. 17 23185 .497 Portland 15!14'14!l5 . . 1977.490 Oakland 16 81213 12 . . . 61 .351 Lost 67738186i80113 - the field' and Held and Brashear held a conference, probably on the question as to whether the game should oe ended end-ed and forfeited to Vernon. After the debris had been partially removed, the game proceeded, but when Held went over to first base in the ninth inning the heaving of cushions, bottles and roclts was taken up bv the bleach-erites bleach-erites on the other side of the field. Is There a Recourse? People who tahe an interest in baseball base-ball in this town have been asking one another during the last two weeks if there is a recourse. Certainly there is. There are three ways to escape the agony ag-ony of a ball game at Majestic park: 1. Stay away; keep your money in your pocket. It may be-, added "that among yesterday's crowd outside the park several hundred pledged themselves to this policy. 2. For the directors to close up the ball park and forfeit the franchise. That would bring the issue to a head at once. It would- prove whether the Coast league wants Salt Lake in the league sufficiently to pinch the stubbornness stub-bornness "bullheadedness" out of a really competent umpire. If the directors direc-tors feel that they have not the authority au-thority to do this! thev might call a stockholders' meeting 'to discuss the question. 3. To provide enough policemen at the park to squelch everv fan who ries in protest. This method would fix things so that an umpire could, without adverse criticism, cram anything down the people's throats he sa'w fit, the would-bo protcstant being firmlv held helpless in his placo by a big copper. How About Today? Yesterday's attendance was about half that which attended the game on the preceding Saturday, tho day when the big fiasco of the Los Angeles series was staged, and the day when the attendance at-tendance began to diminish in earnest. The question for today is: Will the people be curious enough to see what is going to happen todav to pay their money at the gate? It is'safe to say. of course, that thev have long since given up hope of seeing a baseball game that is a contest. Therefore, it will be a question as to how far the prospect of more excitement will serve to draw them to the park. Vernon Easy Winner. Save that there was nothing to it except Ellis .lohnson in yesterday's game, the contest was reasonably good. Salt Lake had a chance to score in the sixth, when they got the bases full, and again in tho sovouth. And that was all. Vernon took to Piercey in the first inning for an earned run. and cinched the game in the sixth when thev made three runs, two of them being 'due to Art Griggs's homer over the right field fence. Charley Risberg led the attack against the Saint pitchers. The Swede got credit for four two-base hits. As a matter of fact, one of his two base hits was a. home run, but the umpiro called it a double. That being once when the visiting club got the worst of it. In the first inning Risberg drove to iet't field. Tho ball struck the top of the fence, bounded out, struck a tree, and rebounded into tho park. The ruling was that the ball did not strike the tree at all, but only the top of the fence. Ellis Johnson did not yield a hit until the sixth, and two more hits in the seventh sev-enth were all that were charged against him. On the other hand, the Tigers hit Piercey and Evans for eleven safe whangs. Tigers Easy Victors. Cleichmann singled in the first and went to second on a balk. Ho scored the first Bengal tally on Risberg 'a so-called so-called two-base hit the one that should have been a home run. Piercey held the fort capably until the sixth. Risberg hit his third'double and scored on Bates's pingle, and then Griggs sent Bates and himself across with a homer. Salt Lake scored their two runs in the seventh. The bases were filled on a hit by Ryan, a walk for Qninlnn and a single by Sheely. Orr hit to Johnson and Ryan was forced at the plate. Bavless, Bav-less, hitting for Gislason, walked, which (Continued oa Following Page.) HE FiS HOLD HELD a PRISONER (Continued from Preceding Page.) forced in Quinlan. Gregory, batting for Piercey, was called out at first, Sheely j scoring. It was this decision that stirred un all the fuss. Shinn fanned to end the ; Salt Lake chances. The Tigers scored again in the eighth. Risherg's fourth double was followed bv Bates's sacrifice and a single by Hill-yard. Hill-yard. The clubs will play again this afternoon. after-noon. It will be the final game of the series and will begin at 3 o 'clock. |