Clipping:Umpire abuse by 'Brooklyn blackguards':
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| Date | Sunday, August 26, 1860 |
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| Text | UMPIRES FOR BROOKLYN MATCHES.–Twice during the past week have gentlemen from the New York clubs, who have been solicited and consented to act as umpires for matches in Brooklyn, been subjected to sneers, insulting allusions, and ungentlemanly criticism. If this conduct is not repudiated by Brooklyn base ball players, New York gentlemen, we imagine, will be very scarce who will hereafter consent to act as umpires in such matches and subject themselves to insults from Brooklyn blackguards. In our columns we have always treated Brooklyn clubs very fairly, and we have always given them the credit of producing the largest number of and best base ball players in the world, and we regret that owing to the unruly conduct of some of the fraternity we cannot say that they are the most gentlemanly body of players in the country. We hope in future that no New York player will again place himself in the position occupied by Mr. Thorn in the Atlantic and Excelsior; but when the Brooklyn roughs and sporting men undertake again to quarrel about their favorite clubs, let them have the fight to themselves, and let an umpire from Brooklyn be chosen to be the subject of their blackguardism of those who are likely to lose bets on the game. We do not mean to insinuate that the games of all the clubs of Brooklyn are associated with rowdyism, and spectators whose presence are annoying and unpleasant. Of several of the clubs no complaint of this kind can be made. We hope such unpleasant scenes as have been witnessed at matches during the past week will not occur again. |
| Source | New York Atlas |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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