Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — Want a Job? [ARTICLE]
Want a Job?
El Monte and Irwindale baseball nines are hunting an umpire. After an umpire had been chased out of Thursday’s game, John Hayes, a rancher, undertook the job, and upon announcing his first decision was shot in the breast by a spectator who had bet on El Monte. Hayes called time, rushed his assailant and took the gun away from him and ordered him from the ground. He then finished the game but declined to officiate at any more. •- r '
