Show LI J VE SP OR tf TING G OSSIP lJ i Local and Te Telegraphic p Reports of Field Track and Ring UMPIRE U IS HIT 1111 I BY POP BOTTLE v Youngest Official Suffers Sufers Fractured Fractured Fractured Frac Frac- Skull in Game at St. St St Louis 1 RIOT FOLLOWS THROWING 1 f Y Young Man Mai Rescued From Lynching Fans and Taken I to Police Station tt c St. St Louis Sept Sept 15 1 A V pop bottle hurled hurle from rom tho bleachers probably lY fa fat fatally fa- fa t tal tally William Evans 1 21 l years CaS cars ol old the youngest iro In II the American Amer mor 1 ican league Uc an and precipitated a nt rl of oC oft t spectators here herc toda today Hugo HuSo 17 Ii years yearn er old oll l 1007 Oi Albert avenue U narrowly escaped lynching at the tho han hands s of the Infuriated cow crowd ti which swept over o er the tiLe Hold field an and surrounded stir sur lr- lr f f.- f. rounded him Fifty policemen Icemen to fought lh t their wa way I through h tho mob rescued the assailant assail assail- ant nut and und with wih the greatest difficulty COl him out of or thc ground J. J H lIe le let t was locked locc up UJ at the Iho Dayton Daylon street po police po- po II ilc lice station sLaton The Tho pop o bottle struck Evans E at tho the base of or tho the brain ln and m fractured hl his S 0 skull 4 The assault assaul was perpetrated during Iho tho deciding Inning of or the thc gme t. t of a header double lo lc-hea lc er between the tho Browns and Detroit f an Detri howell of or the Iho Browns knocked 1 Hurry Harry Uro n a ball baH Into the center fel field bleachers J and Evans Evan with wih several sc Detroit players players play play- ers 16 ran up the ibid Held to see sec where the ball bal hind had s struck E Evans decided that it ft I was waR a fair fah hit hl an and nd a n L dispute l alo arose c. c the Iho Detroit Detroi men menI 1 I protesting na giving Ing Howell n a Evans and the Tigers homo home run rUI J stopped b by tho the left lel Held bleachers during dur dur- Ul- Ul lug ing the Chic nr argument o Jilt Hit Jl L 11 nu on in J hud Head 4 The Tue eyes of the thousands of or spec spec- l tutors tutor were on 01 them Suddenly a butr but bot- r tb llo lo whirled the tIie air all from om the left ef fiel Held bleachers anti and mil struck Evans aus 1 on the I het head Tho missile missie burst Into a n thousand thousand thou thou- sand ana fragments nn arid and a shower o of glass new le Into to J Ito tho faces of thu the Detroit pla play play- ers I Evans ans sank to tho the ground insensible I A roar roal arose from tho thio crow crowd and In ill a be bedlam lam reigned everywhere In j r f Sportsmans Sportsman's park Parl Thou Thousands thronged the field feld un und and cries of Lynch I him rose yost roseon J on oil 01 every evon han hand j I Men sprang ng al at J and at- at to t cir hint from the squad of oC 11 ci who wh Vh WI wie t C n fighting hUn back lInck the an angry lY t-lS t Other patrolmen ran lan to their und and ana was coiled out ot or the tho grounds with wih dIll dIll- alen- alen 1 t d tn n U QI cor Hh tot i i H I i n 1 ht fought and raved ra while being being carried to r the players players' dressing rooms loom Later he lie f was wa lemon removed In 11 nn an ni automobile to a f. f ilos hospital It I is I feared that he ho will wJ not notI I recover 1 The rue Injured umpire formerly was a 1 sporting writer wrier on a Youngstown Ohio and lived l ed with his V mother r Mrs Mary Evans uns E al at t 21 1 Orange Or- Or 01 ango ange in that el city fr f |