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Show UMPIRE SHOWS HIS METTLE Billy Evan, Mad Target of by Po; Bottle Thrower. Refua to Move I Chrd. "Umpire are brnve men at lenai the trr.u majority of them. One ol the brtet thlnta I ever anw waa thf art of Hilly Ktana on the old Whin rtoi grounda In Chlcato," write llugt Kulktritn In Ihe American Matatlne On that park, happily, now vacated U.cn a ilr of seal k no ire mm I hi atoea yard. Iii which tathered oil n tht a oat danternua crowda (fur urn plrtai In the country. They were regu Inn who ocrutil'-d Ihe aame tenia al mid every day, and who fought foi tbca. These cutf of courae, were no rene-vcd. hut hundred claimed a tlth to ctnaln place. They paid thvlr qunr ler in, I If anyone waa In Ihe plnrt and retimed to move, be, wua toKc nut md thrown over the head of Hit crnid lo Ihe Ixitiom. Tlml crowd atatted alter Kvana who hud given a ch.ne declalou al thlrc hurt Ag.ilnat Chicago Kvana wulkerl iter onto (mil ground, hack of dint baai and t allow er of htutle fell around hlul. II looked aa If u hundred i wert ihrowlnt boiilia al the umpire One but Hi. touched hi cup. aet enil bound, d and atruck him, one till blui on thl. arm I "During thla bomhardiiiem Kviini did not tin n bl head lie hiu.hI watch : Iiik Ike hutier. Pur ut leum three mm uti ulhe Im I lie whluiled around bli head. .The people In the traiid aiund Khouud lor him to run. fearing he I would be killed. The player bi-nged him to move Inlo thn diamond out nl ranae. He khxI r till, with hla buck la lilt (ca, mull the butter made biiue bit, then l rolled down neirer urr ond hue to watch (or a play Ihrre "A die oppuKliiK nine look the field a few Moment Inter Kvaim wulked lo the uauie iHialllon hat k of (Irut liaue. and tbe crowd that bad tried to kill him io.l up und cheered him. They renanUi'd a brute irun One fellow threw Imllli.. and Ihe crowd plit licit hllll dean the ali-ep atop", pauHlUK him ulotg until he hit Ihe ti lire " |