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Show I GATES BARRED 0NL1TTLEH0CK I BALL TEAM Grounds Closed to Arkansas Lineup While Smith and Seaton Play. B ATLANTA. Gh.. June 17. Vhn H member of the Utile Hock balall H mum arrived at Ponce d5 Leon park, H tli9 Southern KDttoclntlon grounds her. H thl iiftoriiQon. for the iwheduleu Knic 1 with Atlanta. . tho foarid the gHte M locked ngalnm lhm. Tho miimsf- H ninl Qf the Atlanta club, togetncr 1 1th off Ida la of the Mobirb and Chat- H tanooga teams, had announced earlier H In tho day that no saint's would be H playml with Llttlo Hock aa Ion? a-v H i,'aty Smith and Tom Scton. formerly H jf the Sji Francisco Pacific Conut H league, appeared In the Little Kock H llnoup. Tho two plnycm. asalnst whom H protctn have been mad to tho South-; H ern nMKJclallon officials, wore ulgned , H by Little Rock after they had been H released by San Francisco for alleged H unsportsmanlike conduct. The Little H Bock manager had announced thai H Smith would appear In the pitcher's H box today. Umpires Kerln and Both. H who were to have officiated at today's H panic, and who appeared at the park M V w,tl 'lho J-Jtt'e Hock P'n'?" an" Vft 1T nouncod that the same would stand as 1 . 'not playod" Instead of being forfeited forfeit-ed to the Little Hock club. . Che um-! plros ruled that botli teams mustyo on the ground to have the game forfeited. for-feited. The Atlanta player were not at tho park. "Tho ohnrges against the players is all hearsay evidence," Manager Elbor-fold Elbor-fold of the Little Jtock club declared today. "In spile of our Written requests re-quests lo the dan Krancltwo club for lull Information us to the details of tho case, we have received no reply. In justice to these players the charges should bo investigated thoroughly. If thoy are proven true, both men suould be barred from baseball, but if unfounded, un-founded, as they scorn to be, Smith J and Seaton hate been done an lnjus-Smllli lnjus-Smllli and S?aton Iropied. SAN FRANCISCO, J une 1 . Casey Smith and Tom Seaton. former pitch-era pitch-era of the San Francisco club of tlio . Pacific Coast league, today reported; as involved In a Southern association controversy, were dropped a mount I ago from the San Francisco team-"tor lho good of baseball." President Charles Graham of the club announced. an-nounced. Their release came during an investigation of alleged ganibling at the baseball park, but Graham's h statement at the time said .they were tdr" not dlroctly connected with the gambling gam-bling charges. it |