Clipping:Umpire keeping the game moving

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Date Thursday, July 11, 1867
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[Eckfords vs. Mutuals 7/3/67] The game thus far [five innings] had occupied but fifty minutes, the umpire [C. Mills, of the Atlantic] keeping both parties to a strict observance of the rules, though we noticed that he made the same error in calling strikes and balls on the first ball delivered that he did in the Irvington match, he not having read the last number of the Chronicle apparently...

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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