Baseball Riot Erupts After Tacoma Loss

There was a display of rowdyism at the ball game yesterday that gave baseball in Tacoma a black eye. It all came about because of the defeat of the home team. The Tigers, late winners of the pennant, had another fall taken out of them by Dugdale's crew yesterday and went to second place in the final race. Throughout the game excitement ran high, but it was nothing compared with the uproar after the close of the final inning. Some of the fans who can't bear to see their favorites defeated started to do things to Umpire McDonald, and for a time rowdyism was rampant. McDonald was charged with deliberately throwing the game to Portland, and the sports who had bet their good money on a sure thing and lost would undoubtedly have disfigured him had he not gotten out of the way. Then commenced some horseplay between the crowd and Officer Amidon. The officer attempted to disperse the crowd and was jeered at and called all sorts of vile names. He attempted to make several arrests, but as fast as he would collar one man the crowd would take him away. Amidon finally got his hands on a small boy and managed to get him as far as the cable car. Then a colored barber named Gibson interfered in the boy's behalf and Amidon attempted to take Gibson into custody. While struggling with him, the boy escaped, and then the scrap was ended by a couple of white men taking the colored man away from Amidon. That ended the disgraceful and disgusting scene.