Poor Jimmy Clinton was in pretty hard luck May 19 in Brooklyn while attempting to umpire the second game of the championship series between the Brooklyn and St. Louis clubs. He made some pretty bad breaks and the crowd got on to him, and the more he tried to square himself the ranker be got until, by the close of the game, he had the cranks worked up to such a pitch that it required the combined efforts of the police and the players, all armed with clubs and headed by President Byrne to prevent him from being lynched. In fact, it was really the cunning of Byrne alone that saved him, as the energetic little gentleman restored peace by pouring oil on the troubled waters.

National Police Gazette, June 5, 1886.