Clipping:A questionable call provokes speculation of betting by the umpire
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| Date | Saturday, June 11, 1870 |
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| Text | [Forest City of Rockford vs. Atlantic 5/31/1870] [McDonald at third, Smith a first, Start at bat, one out, Forest City leading 17-16] ...Start hit a ball to Barnes at short field. Start ran for fifth [sic] base, Smith for second and McDonald ran home. Just at this time, to the surprise of everybody, the umpire declared to ball to be foul. At once Spaulding secured the ball, passed it to Foley at third before McDonald could get back, and Foley sending it back to Spaulding, the latter forwarded it to Doyle, thereby cutting off Smith, the umpire deciding both out and giving the game to the Forest City nine. The reporters, one and all, were astonished at the foul ball decision, as no such impression had been made upon any one by the hit made by Start; but, granting that the ball was foul, the fact that the call of foul was not uttered in the “distinct and audible manner” required by the rules was, to say the least, a glaring error of the umpire's, and it had a disastrous effect on the result of the game of the Atlantics. The Brooklyn Eagle we notice, openly states that the umpire had bets pending on the result, and, if this is the case, the Atlantics ought to bring the matter before the Judiciary Committee. Poorer umpiring we have not seen in a match this season that that of McMahon [of the Mutual Club] in this game... |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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