Clipping:Shortage of new balls on the ground

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Date Monday, July 28, 1890
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The decision by Umpire Peoples in declaring the Brooklyn-Columbus game played at the Long Island grounds yesterday forfeited to Columbus was based upon a mere technicality which the umpire himself afterward could not explain. The Columbus team had just started the last half of the eighth inning. Sneed, who was at the bat, knocked a foul, the ball going out of sight. Immediately a ball was thrown into the diamond from the grand stand, and somebody yelled to the umpire that a ball lay on the ground near him. But he called for a new ball, and as there had been a limited supply, there were none on hand. Capt. Gerhardt claimed that the ball that lay within ten feet of Peoples was in play. He picked it up and was about to throw it out when Capt. McTammany of the visiting team very emphatically said he would not play unless a new ball was forthcoming. This settled it in the mind of Umpire Peoples, and he then thought the same way. The ball just batted foul was thrown in, and with three balls in his hand it was supposed he gave the game to Columbus, for those players began to pack their bats. He had no watch in his hand not even allowing the Brooklyns five minutes in which to get a new ball. It did not take him two minutes to give the game to Columbus. The score at that time was 13 to 8 in favor of the Brooklyns.

Source New York Sun
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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