Clipping:Hits to umpires on calling strikes
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| Date | Saturday, July 17, 1869 |
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| Text | 1st. Never call a strike on the first ball delivered, of course except the batsman strikes at the ball–as such a call is positively prohibited. 2d. Never call a strike until you have first warned the batsman of the penalty of his refusal to strike at fair balls. This warning can be given in some such words as “a fair ball, I shall call the next.” 3d. Never call a strike on a batsman who, either in the early part of a game, or when there are no players running the bases, fails to strike promptly, as in such cases there is an absence of the required motive, “to delay the game,” or “to give advantage to a player.” 4th. When a player is at first base, however, and the striker be at all over-particular in regard to selecting balls to strike at, warn him at one, and call strikes on him promptly, when really fair balls are delivered. 5th. Also, when darkness or storm is approaching, and it is to the advantage of the striker, or of the club he plays for, to delay the game, at once give warning, and promptly call strikes on every fair ball sent in and not struck at. 6th. Should it, however, under similar circumstances, be to the Striker’s advantage to hasten the game, and to the interest of his club for him to strike out, do not call strikes on him, even if he hit at the ball, unless it be a ball which he can hit and would have selected in the early part of the game; as the rules particularly prohibit any “unlawful” striking out. 7th. Remember, too, that in calling strikes, if the batsman is in the habit of striking at a ball of any particular highth [sic], and yet calls for a ball lower or higher than he is in the habit of striking at, for any special purpose, you must call strikes on him if he fails to hit at the balls he calls for, whether they really suit him or not. 8th. You can only call strikes on a batsman for his refusal to hit at balls within the legitimate reach of his bat. When they are pitched to him out of his legitimate reach, or not within reasonable distance of the height he calls for, you cannot call strikes on him. 9th. Finally, remember top be very strict in calling strikes whenever players are running bases, and especially when a player is on first base; and also be strict when it is getting dark or a storm is approaching and delay is advantageous to the striking party. But when there is no apparent motive, either to delay the game, to give advantage to the player, or weary the pitcher, you cannot fairly call strikes on a batsman unless he becomes tediously or unnecessarily particular as to the ball he wants pitched to him. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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