Clipping:Long matches due to poor umpiring

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Date	Saturday, July 17, 1869
Text	[Keystones vs. Harvard 7/9/1869] The fault of the match was its length. It lasted three hours and twenty minutes [for seven innings]. This was the fault of the umpire, who, by refusing to call balls and strikes, as the rules require, consumed that time in only seven innings. It is necessary that we protest against this bad umpiring, which wearies the players and disgusts the public. Peale wish to see a good lively brisk game of base ball, and do not care to sit longer than two hours and a half for a full game. But, upon the average time of innings, had nine been played the game would have lasted nearly five hours! And chiefly because the umpire does not enforce the rules., quoting the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
Source	Philadelphia City Item
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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