Clipping:A disgraceful crowd in Boston
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| Date | Sunday, July 19, 1874 |
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| Text | [Athletic vs. Boston 7/13/1874] The conduct of the crowd was very disgraceful, and the Athletic and Boston nines had to use their bats to keep the former from injury. A strong force of officers was necessary to keep Murnan [umpire][the Athletics' substitute] from suffering personal violence at the hands of the scoundrelly gamblers, who were infuriated at a decision at second which Fisler afterwards declared had been mer perfectly justly. Over 1,000 persons gathered, yelling and blaspheming around the Athletic coach, and, for a time, progress was impossible, and it was only with great exertions that the crowd was cleared, and, as the coach left, a volley of stones was sent after it. Most of those indulging in the manifestations were well dressed men, who, from their outward appearance, might have been taken for gentlemen. The Boston newspapers are very cautious as to their acts, but attempt faintly to justify them. Philadelphia Sunday Republic July 19, 1874 [Note: Boston won 7-6.] [Athletic vs. Boston 7/13/1874] When the game was over the crowd rushed in, and it became a serious questions whether the umpire would get of unharmed. The crowd shouted, jeered and insulted him in every way. This, of course, was inexcusable, and the conduct of the crowd was as much to be condemned as the course of the umpire. He had certainly decided every doubtful point, and some about which there was no question, in favor of the Athletics, but that was no reason why the crowd should have taken up the matter and wantonly insulted the umpire of the Boston's own selection. It was a scene which in the interests of the game should not be repeated again in Boston. Boston Daily Advertiser July 14, 1874 [Athletic vs. Boston 7/13/1874] An umpire is always allowed in Boston the greatest freedom, and is generally treated with more courtesy than is usual on base ball fields in any other city, but the decisions were too much for the temper of the crowd, who were wrought up to an unusual pitch of excitement. They “chinned” him unmercifully, and when the game closed he was surrounded by five or six hundred men and boys, and he was hustled and pushed about, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he reached the coach which conveyed the Athletics from the grounds, It was only the intervention of members of the Boston club and some of the sturdy Athletics and the vigorous movements of the police that gained him an avenue to the carriage. As it was, he was followed by a hooting crowd, some of the “hoodlums” and gamins following the coach far from the grounds, and spitefully following it with occasional projectiles. The whole affair was an unusual one for Boston. Boston Journal July 14, 1874 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Republic |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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