Clipping:Crowd control, and umpire calling time

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Date Sunday, September 2, 1866
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[a letter from James P. Butler of the Eckford BBC, who umpired a junior match] In the ninth inning, the crowd got so near the first-base that it was impossible for me to see it at all. I called time, and said that if the crowd was not kept back I would call game.

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

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