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Show ROWDYISM ATWHES New York Fans Insult Women and Their Escorts New York, April 11. Complaints of rowdyism Indulged In by spectators at tho two opening games of the New York baseball season are likely to result re-sult In the assigning of a large squad of policemen to keep order at the big iloague grounds hereafter. On Wcdnosday and Thursday the ihoodlums wore painfully In evidence, according to the complaints received 'by the management. In countless instances, in-stances, women wero struck with pa-,pcr pa-,pcr balls bigger than their heads or by pa nor clubs rolled thicker than one's arm, Their escorts, who tried to ward off the attacks, were beaten with improvised bludgeons until tholr hats were smashed and in some cases noses were bleeding The spectacle afforded by a hundred or more men nnd boys pelting a woman wom-an and her escort with newspapers, peanut shells, cigar butts and tobacco quids Is not relished by the management manage-ment and stops will be taken, it Is announced, to persuade the police to take a hand. The ball game crowds were formerly former-ly patrolled by regular police, but these were withdrawn a year aco. owing to criticism of their assignment assign-ment to this "private work" and special spec-ial officers- hired by the management were substituted These special officers offi-cers have been unablo to eopo with tho rowdy element Application will, therefore, be made for a return of 'the old system. |