Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — Umpire Hit with Pop Bottle. [ARTICLE]

Umpire Hit with Pop Bottle.

St. Louis, Sept. 17.—During the first game of the doube-header between the Browns and Tigers, Umpire Evans, the youngest handler of the Indicator In the major league, was struck at the base of the brain by a pop bottle and now Iles In a hospital seriously Injured. The bottle, which was burled by Hugo Dussenberg, a youth 17 years of age, was broken into a thousand pieces when it struck Evans.