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Show UMPIRE KLEM HOLDS RECORD National League Arbiter Banished Twenty-Two Players From Bench at Polo Grounds. The other day In a game at Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Umpire Klem of the National league chased fourteen of the Chicago players from the bench to the clubhouse. club-house. With only eleven men available avail-able Chicago won the game 5 to 1. The wholesale banishment came in the first inning. Someone suggested to Klem that sending fourteen players to the clubhouse club-house was a record, but the umpire f.ft A , ''V , turns? '1 ' r flJ fr $ - i I .w A ''k ; W ' ,v . t ' 7 . 1 t ? t I V ' ' . S Umpire Klem. says nothing doing if the count of the newspaper men in a game at New-York New-York was correct. "In a game at the Polo grounds several sev-eral years ago I cleared the bench as the result of a decision that failed to please. The ofllciul count was given aJ twenty-two. "It looked to me as if there were hundred, as the players went to clubhouse using the Iockstep and Ulins plenty of time," |