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Show DISGRACEFUL EXHIBITION ON BALL GROUNDS. After Ogden's long and vigorous protest against rowdy baseball by the Salt Lake team in the Union Asso ciatlon, the local fans were made to eat numme pie wnen am liuh"6. second baseman of the Canners, yesterday yes-terday struck umpire Bert Spencer with a baseball bat A sense of hu-I hu-I railiation camo to every true sports-i sports-i man who witnessed the act. Dowling had ample cause to be provoked pro-voked and even angered while at bat over the decisions given on balls and strikes by Spencer, who evidently had deliberately aimed to nettle the batsman, bats-man, but to advance that as an argument argu-ment in justification of Dowling s cowardly attack would be condoning an outrage. The Salt Lake papers of this morning take full advantage of this offense against clean ball to excuse the past conduct of their players and point the finger of shame at Ogden and one of them goes so far as to malign two or three of our most prominent citizens by stating that they smiled when the blow was struck, which is nothing short of a malicious libel. Xo one attempts to exculpate Dowling and many favor his expulsion from the local club. But we desire to inform the Salt Lake papers that their silent approval approv-al of the rowdyism of their own team in the earlier series of the season has led directly to this disgraceful euding of a most unsatisfactory base ball season. When Ogden was struggling strug-gling to suppress the Hooligans among the Sea Gulls there was not one word in the Salt Lake papers in condemnation of the rowdies and later those papers joined in driving from the league the only umpire who had the courace tn Hpmanri rioan hnii and to insist on the umpire being respected. re-spected. The ball players of other teams, discovering that it paid to bate the umpire, have followed the example of the Sea Gulls until the man with the indicator has become recognized as a common object of attack. at-tack. Had the umpires been respected respect-ed in the beginning, Dowling never would have questioned Spencer's decisions de-cisions by an outward display of contempt con-tempt and the impulse to strike a blow with a bat never would have been translated into action. |