Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1911 — FINE OF $5OO FOR KICKERS [ARTICLE]

FINE OF $5OO FOR KICKERS

President Lynch Grows Radical In Defense of His Umpires—Page’s Protest Turned Down. President Thomas J. Lynch of the National League has returned from * visit to western cities of his circuit. Waiting for Lynch was word-that the Pittsburg club has appealed from the decision of the president that sustained the Chicago protest and threw out one of Pittsburg's victories, over the Cubs. This was -the game in which the decisions of Klem and ' Doyle were set aside and which cost Doyle his job as umpire. The case will now have to be acted on by the board of directors of the league. Vice President Page of the Boston club, also has sent in a formal protest of the game won by the Cubs from the Rustlers the day of the big trade. Page takes the stand that the deal was not legal because he (Page) was not consulted, but these differences between the Boston officials are entirely internal affairs and not subjects for jurisdiction by the president of the league, who can only recognize the action of the club president in the case. Therefore no action by the league president may be expected. The deal stands, so far aB the league is concerned, and the game also. “The National league umpiring in! the west has been excellent,” said Lynch. “The race is close and the iflayers are crabbling, but the umpiring is all right. The fans threw bottles at Umpire Brennan in St. Louis, and that’s a sign the umpiring was good and not ‘home umpiring.’ What ought to be done to these players who’ kick, get put out of the game, and perhaps cost their club the game, is to fine each of them $500.”