Clipping:A proposal to empower umpires to suspend players

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Date	Wednesday, October 3, 1888
Text	[editorial matter] The idea of giving the umpires power to suspend refractory players...is a good one... The plan has decided merit, in that it would lift the burden of keeping the players in subjection from the already sadly hampered umpire to the clubs, where it properly belongs. If the umpires were empowered to suspend kicking and “dirty” players for brief periods, running from one day to, say a week, [illegible] of pay, the clubs themselves, instead of secretly encouraging the players in their kicking and trickery, would quickly put their players on their good behavior, for not only would they be paying for services not rendered, but the loss of the services of valuable players, even for the briefest period, would b3e such a serious matter to the clubs, especially in close races, that they would be in self-defence be compelled to put their players upon their good behavior. Thus by enforcing penalties that would come home to the club instead of making the players suffer financially, we should get down to the properly solution of the umpire question by making each club responsible for the conduct of its players. … But it is not likely to come into operation very soon because, unfortunately, the club people who regulate these things and who make and unmake the umpires and the rules governing them are the very people who would be most affected by the proposed new system, and they will undoubtedly continue as long as possible to shirk the onerous duty of themselves keeping their players in check and maintaining order upon the ball field by making the umpire the scapegoat of their dereliction of duty and the wrath of mulcted players.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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