The Seattle Baseball Management Moves to Evict Hecklers

The conduct of the crowds at the Seattle baseball park has been so disgraceful that the club management has determined to make a vigorous attempt to preserve order. On more than one occasion, when the play did not suit the spectators, the players were hooted and called names. This annoyance has finally become so great that it is impossible for the players to attend to good playing. In addition to the disrepute into which such conduct tends to bring the sport, a particularly disgraceful scene occurred last Sunday when Sam Laroque was driven from the game by the insults heaped upon him by a lot of cowardly blackguards. Refusing to play longer is a very foolish thing in a player, yet there is considerable extenuation for his conduct in the treatment he received. Behavior such as has disgraced the crowds at Madison Street Park would never be tolerated for an instant in Eastern cities. In the future, the Seattle management proposes to follow a similar rule to the one used in Columbus, Ohio: if a spectator is heard to insult or hoot at a player, he will be escorted to the gate and his money refunded. If he creates a scene, he will never be admitted again.