Clipping:The umpire takes Deacon White's word for it
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| Date | Friday, June 7, 1878 |
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| Text | [Cincinnati vs. Indianapolis 6/6/1878] The batter made three strikes, White [catcher] dropping the ball on the last strike. It rolled away several feet, and before Croft [batter] reached first base–the ball in the meantime having been picked up and sent after Flint, who was going around the diamond–McLean [umpire] after a pause and consultation with J. White, declared Croft out on the ground that White had touched him as he started for first, though a hundred spectators can testify that White did not touch the runner at all. McLean did not see Croft put out, and does not pretend to have seen it, but he claims that when “J. White says a thing is so it is so, and that is the end of it.” Therefore, when White said he touched Croft nothing remained but to order first base vacated. The managers rested under the delusion that they had employed McLean, and not White, to umpire the game. Now they know better, and in view of the events of yesterday it is proposed to dispense with an umpire altogether and get White to run that department. In this way the salary of an umpire can be saved and the same end subserved. Such a break as that of McLean’s yesterday was never seen on an Indianapolis ball field, and it is to be hoped that it will not be repeated. “White’s mistake” lost the Indianapolis team at least one run and maybe more. |
| Source | Indianapolis Journal |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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