Clipping:The umpire controlling the crowd
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| Date | Sunday, May 20, 1883 |
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| Text | John Kelly on Tuesday last umpired the Eclipse-Cincinnati game at Louisville and showed what one man with sand can do with a crowd and gave a most successful illustration of the virtue of the order rule adopted last winter. A decision he made in the sixth inning didn't suit the hoodlums and a noisier crowd never occupied a ball field. They hooted and called names and pandemonium seemed to have broken loose. Kelly seemed to take no notice, but after about five minutes of the racket, walked up to the pavilion, pointed out two roughs by laying his hands on them and ordered them ejected from the ground. The St. Louis private police yanked the two unceremoniously, while the better part of the crowd stood up and cheered. Kelly had all this time been getting the dead wood on the ringleaders of the men. After this it was like a change from Hades to heaven. The mob were conquered. One man afterward started to say something and Kelly turned his eyes that way. The fellow cut it off short and the crowd game him a laugh. Kelly comes from New York, where he is one of the boys and is not afraid to enforce the rule. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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