Clipping:A row and a forfeit arising from the substitute two umpire system
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| Date | Wednesday, July 25, 1888 |
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| Text | [from the Kansas City correspondent] The third Brooklyn game was one long to be remembered by President Byrne, as he was fined the modest sum of $1,500 for refusing to finish the game. The double umpire system was again tried, but with the same results as has characterized the system heretofore, although until the ninth inning no decisions of either umpire caused any dissatisfaction whatever. … … ...The trouble commenced when Mac [McClellan of the Brooklyns] took first. He is a clever base-runner, and covered considerable ground, but little did he know that Ehret is one of the quickest throwers in the team. At any rate Ehret, by a quick throw, caught him napping at first, and big Phillips had the ball on him in the twinkling of an eye. Donohue was giving base decisions, and declared McClennan out. The Brooklyns vowed and declared McClellan had returned to the bag ere Phillips touched him and refused to continue the game. After fifteen minutes' wrangling, during which managers, captains, presidents, directors and players joined, Donohue warned Manager McG9innigle that in ten minutes they would forfeit the game if they did not continue, and after the expiration of the specified time, during which Ehret pitched five balls over the plate, Donohue awarded the game to Kansas City by the score of 9 to 0, and fined the Brooklyn Base Ball Club a cold $1,500. he had no other course to pursue and surely acted in accordance with section 66 of the constitution. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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