Clipping:The umpire should strictly enforce all the rules
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| Date | Sunday, May 19, 1872 |
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| Text | Should the rules passed at the last convention be unduly strict, or be found to conflict with the best interests of the game, it is only by enforcing them strictly that their weak points can be made apparent to the players themselves, who will see to it that they are altered at the next convention. An umpire, therefore, has no right to give his idea of what is the law. He is placed in the position of a man who is on a jury–not to interpret the law, but to decide what is brought before him, according to what he is told the law is. Hardly any two umpires will agree as to what the law ought to be in connection with calling strikes and balls, and it is to prevent the inevitably disagreeable results of such differences in opinion that a positive law on the subject is laid down. An umpire, therefore, should allow himself no latitude whatever in this respect; he has nothing to do with the making of the law–he is only there to execute it as it is written. |
| Source | New York Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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