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Show WILD BALL CAUSES CHICAGO RACE RIOT CHICAGO. Sept. 6. Rioting ln which a score of p rsons were injured, in-jured, resulted Monday from a wildly thrown baseball during a game at Lincoln park. Before the battle ended, end-ed, more than a hundred park policemen po-licemen armed with guns and clubs charged a mob of more than a thou-wind thou-wind persons to bring a negro prisoner pris-oner to a cell. The riot started, according to the police when one of th,o negro players engaged ln a baseball game threw to catch a runner at second base. Tht bail went wild and "truck an Assyrian picnicker. The Assyrians Immediately attacked the negroes and a furious batt'e er.sued. Two Assyrians and the negro were taken Into custody by the police. |