Clipping:Making suggestions to the umpire; talking back to the roughs
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| Date | Sunday, September 29, 1867 |
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| Text | [Unions of Lansingburgh vs. Unions of Morrisania 9/24/1867] The action of the Lansingburg players in disputing decisions of the umpire, and in “talking back” to the roughs in the crowd, who were taunting them, was anything but creditable. This style of thing has been done away with in our metropolitan games, and is only now indulged in by country villagers who no know better. The rule is to take no notice of what a betting-crowd say, as their object is plainly to annoy players and make them play bad; and especially should every decision of the umpire, right or wrong, be quietly received, without a word of dissent or explanation. It is the umpire’s duty alone to decide by what he sees and not what he is told. New York Sunday Mercury September 29, 1867 Of the Haymakers little can be said to their credit; the good opinions they gained by their effective play were entirely destroyed by their ungentlemanly conduct, in continually making suggestions to the umpire, and answering blackguards in the crowd who chose to jeer at them. We would state for their information, if they are ignorant of the rules of the game that, it is the custom here for members of clubs to make no suggestions whatever to an umpire in order to influence his judgment; neither is it considered just the thing for a player, on being laughed at for dropping a ball, to make faces at the spectators, and stick his fingers up to his nose at them. Such actions gain a club no friends, but simply reduces them to the level of the loafers who choose to make the insulting remarks. They Haymakers must also remember that New York clubs have been treated very badly on their grounds at Lansingburh, and that consequently the feeling here is none too friendly toward them. We hope hereafter that their reputation for upright, square and honorable play will equal the renown they now possess for skill in handling the ball and bat. New York Dispatch September 29, 1867 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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