AMERICAN BASEBALL FANS THROW “DEAD MARINES” AT UMPIRE DURING BIG MATCH

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6955, 8 July 1929, Page 4

AMERICAN BASEBALL FANS THROW “DEAD MARINES” AT UMPIRE DURING BIG MATCH

rpHERE is a story that AustraX lian cricket barrackers once threw beer-bottles at W. G. Grace, whose tremendous girth and enormous black beard made him a conspicuous figure on the cricket field in the gay and festive nineties. Even nowadays, a football referee or an unpopular boxer across the Tasman has been ,oc- : casionally made the target for a dead marine and other fruity offerings from the gods. Beer being banned, baseball barrackers in the United States use pop-bottles as missiles. , In a, big baseball game at Cleveland • last month the fans took umbrage at an umpire’s decision, and started throwing pop-bottles at the luckless official. Before the police were called in, the umpire was hit on the head with a flying bottle, but was not seriously hurt. Players and ground-keepers then set . to work to clear the playing area of bottles, after which the game was resumed.