Clipping:Harry Wright rusty on the rules
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| Date | Sunday, June 14, 1868 |
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| Text | [Athletics vs. Xenia 6/4/1868] Harry Wright was selected as umpire, but not until Father Hayhurst has posted him upon the rules, in which Wright is decidedly rusty. He is looked upon as the great “I am” in ball circles in Ohio–or at least this section of it, and that by people who should know better, or at least, who are intelligent enough to give a correct interpretation of the rules, if they would only take the trouble to read them. Singular enough he presumed to teach Asa Brainerd, Johnny Hatfield and Freddy Waterman how to play the game, either being his superior in the points of the game, as well as in the matter of head work. However, he kept remarkably shady after Hayhurst had given an ambiguous rule an interpretation, and the Atlantics and Mutuals will still further open the eyes of the friends of the national game in demanding a correct understanding of the rules. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury June 14, 1868 In [the Buckeyes’] last match with the Cincinnati Club, “Dock” [Dockney] was absent, suffering from his wounds. If he had played, it is probable the result would have been different. He is the superior of Wright in all the points of the game, but the latter comes the dignified dodge, and by a certain mysterious reticence, which is intended to say to the Cincinnati folks, “I am right,” secures his point. He, of course, is endorsed by a chap on East who is of the same kidney, but who, so far as base ball is concerned, is a dead letter. Mr. Wright’s time has come. Hatfield, Waterman, and the other Eastern players, laugh in their sleeves at him, but the Porkopolite noodles still accept him as the law and the gospel. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury June 14, 1868 see also PSM 8/2/68] |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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