Clipping:John L. Sullivan as umpire
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| Date | Monday, August 27, 1883 |
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| Text | John L. Sullivan as an umpire was a success. It was very kind of him to stand in a hot sun for two hours and a half and officiate in a thankless position. It was very amusing to see how his decisions were received. There was probably never a game where the umpire was not treated to more or less exposulation—generally more. But not one decision of John's occasioned a murmur. When a poor ball was called a strike, under circumstnaces that would have occasioned lively kicking, the victim looked at John mildly, timidly and appealingly, like a lamb led out for slaughter. Without joking, John would make a splended League umpire. There would be no kicking or squabblng, no bandying words or bulldozing with him. A glance of that eye qnd a gesture of that arm would go farther than all the bravado of some of the umpires of the day. John attends many of the League games on the grounds, and has doubtless often said to himself or to a friend on witnessing the awful and soul-harrowing exhibitons of would-be umpiring on the grounds this season: “Why, I could do better than that duffer myself.” How Anson's jaw would drop and Dunlaps chin would fail; how Purcell would let his mustache droop and slink away with his tail down; how Bob Ferguson's tongue would cleve to the roof of his mouth, and Blonde Shaffer shiver in his tracks when placed in juxtaposition with John Lawrence Sullivan? Where would Lane, Bradley, Kelly and Daniels be, compared with him?, quoting the Boston Globe |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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