Clipping:Calling or suspending a game for rain

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Date Sunday, June 6, 1869
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The rules leave the suspension of a game, or the power to call it and end a contest, entirely in the hands of the umpire. In case of an impending shower, which does not look likely to last all day, the umpire has the power to call time, and suspect play, and if after waiting he finds that there is no chance of a fair contest after the shower, from heavy or wet grounds, or any such cause, he can then call the game. When a game is suspended it can be resumed the same day; when it is called, however, that ends it.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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