| Show ln A BEN OF THIEVES short lines steal the game and the money FROM THE OGDEN BALL TEAM some grand stand plays hinman the salt lake umpire the best player the short lines have dirty ball by a team bearing the name of a clean railroad company the short line team at salt lake in yesterdays game of ball proved itself a giant in game stealing and after having a taste of that closed their piratical work by stealing the gate receipts the first they did by putting their best player hirman a man whom they could trust in as umpire and be played a beautiful and invincible bame the writer has seen a number of games wherein the short lines have attempted to commit larceny but they havo improved wonderfully lately and their selection of as their road agent ia yorty y and a credit to the teams ideas hinman had no knowledge of the game or its rules be was the puppet of knickerbocker and a fellow named hachey the latter making the public statement that the came was easy I 1 had the umpire in my pocket and be did what I 1 told ham to iain man was therefore not to blame in the matter except that he was weak enouch to lend himself to a pan whose intentions were so palpably dishonorable he is a nice looking man strongly built and a scrapper BO bis friends say with an unknown record and his breath was strong evidence that the saloons in salt lake were not closed on sunday for himself after the game was over be stated that whatever errors he made were errors of judgment that he was a member of the short line team and bis sympathies were with them the short lines bad to win that game they bad never won any other and they bad a eafe man to steal it for them whatever hinmans Hin mans instructions were from the fellow highey it became necessary after a rank decision on first for capt knickerbocker to go down to him and say aw ciany be careful dont be quite BO raw he was doing too good work it was getting raw he knew just enough about the game to call every short line man safe if possible so much for the 0 SL s beat player the first inning saw kuhn fan out gimlin sew out and dyer died at first the road agents got six men at bat and scored on a dropped ball by greenwell Grcen well the road agents never scored again while scored gici lina home run in the fourth and was shut out before and after the farat steal by the espart was when horn knocked a beauty of a safe fly over left field fence in the jtb inning it was clearly within the foul lines when it passed over the foul sag and hinman and the gang knew it he called it foul because it would have scored two runs bad he been honest the next was in the case of a foul sy straight up knocked by gimlin and caught by knickerbocker not in bis bands but in bis clothes the ball having bounced out of bis bands and rolled down on bis arm the rules are very plain on the question and state specifically that the ball must ba caught ia the hands now knickerbocker says a mans a liar who says he caught that ball in his clothed be afterwards naolo OS daok IH A DEN OF THIEVES CONTINUED baoe 5 aked for calling the man a liar bat heres the statement by one who was about ten feet from him when he caught it in bis clothes the honest hinman called him out gimlin protester protes teJ but it was of no avail then came dver to bat hughey B delivered one ball then walking around made a run into the box and threw another one pausing momen harily dyer protested and was told to keep quiet hughby did it acain because the umpire was in his pocket they were both illegal deliveries and dyer should have been given his base then came the worse than ever work of the slave of the road agenore mcfarland came to bat in the last of the seven and reached farat on an error of saunders hita little one to dyer who sent it to hubn in good time waa out and the crowd all thought so but tongue and lips could frame but one worta eafe here it was that knickerbocker cautioned that he was too good a dog that be was too raw for even the short linee capt kuhn then notified knickerbocker that an i other similarly rank decision would f the ogden boys off the ground and the thick tongued slave only laughed one 0 those ataee laughs there were two men on bases and then raymond made a long run after burns fly and missed it filling the bases hughey who had the urn pire in his pocket knocked a little one to giclio vrho threw to greenwell shutting out mcfarland Mo Farland and greenwell threw to kuhn on first the ball coins over hueghey and landing in kuhns hands completing the double ever seen on the grounds and the automaton again clucked out eafe kuhn did not bear it and tossed the ball to gimlin who says cap he called that man safe the automaton re iterated sate with a sickly tired of i his job grin and kuhn called in the nine from the field f toen cama a walte of several minutes and klinman without any notification to the ogden team of time limit or anything elee clofed his work by declaring r the game forfeited and the score 9 to 0 in favor of salt lake t TUB CLIMAX i birds of a feather flock together is a cafe old adach but there was never more surprise than that of ger berry of the agdens f when manager anderson emboldened at their success at stealing the game im formed him that having stolen the game they bad decided to complete the deal by stealing the gale receipts manager andersen gave as his basis for the steal that when last in oden they had been notified by manager ledwidge to play or get off the and that if they did not play they would not get a cent ant ander eon discreetly forgot the balance of mr remarks that be would return the money to the spectators 1 even the salt lakers were ashamed of the base ball team which dishonored them and it takes a good deal to make a salt laker ashamed the ogden team belt very good over the matter but if the short lines got any satisfaction out of it they gave no indication di of it following is the summary scottt USE ABB IB PO A R b 4 1 1 2 1 1 Burns rf 4 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 1 6 1 0 marpet gilb 3 0 1 3 0 knickerbocker C 2 0 0 8 2 0 a if 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 29 1 3 20 4 1 edan AB B IB TO A E kahn 1 b 3 0 0 i 0 0 3 1 1 0 3 0 3 0 0 3 0 Phi kegs 3 0 0 1 1 0 c 30 2 6 I 1 1 U 3 0 1 1 0 9 hornof Horn rf 3 0 1 0 0 t 20 0 0 4 f 2 0 0 0 0 1 25 T 4 20 9 0 score by in nines 1 2 3 4 6 C 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 C 1 ogden 0 0 0 1 0 0 01 0 1 birned 1 boine run bags S L 9 ogden 3 doable greenwell Ore enwell knon basei stolen Margetts and kandall bages off gimlin 1 hit by pit otier struck out by 8 gani llna umpires Um and Bl ninan the robbers made one poor lone kiek on umpire Heat marck on a decision on second bat it was a very easy one gimlin played a pretty game and held the gang down to three bile asden bot four bits off hughey and would have bad more but for bis illegal delivery of balls ogden took down nearly five carloads of visitors and most of them took in the ball game ogden ha lost one game won nine and had one stolen from them this beason pocatello poe atello will be the next point of interest the home team goes up their axt sunday the of s nd betel am was made to the short lines yesterday 0 o play a rama anywhere and to send for an eastern umpire to handle the karre they said they liked their own umpire well enough the double play ol 01 gimlin greenwell an d kuhn was one of abe prettiest over been the gama but for the seventh and abe alleged umpiring of iain man who baoy no little about baseball that he got his mask upside down haa not been equalled equal led in abe state and kahn lost their eyes yesterday and missed tho sphere but come out next game saunders was a gewand untried man but bis four errors were not costly the third base man shupe did cot notify manader ledwidge until sunday morn last that be was not going to play baa been a drawback and a weakness of the team and was favored by being kept there but his gratitude did not cause him to be fair to the manager and give him notice of intention to quit |
