Clipping:Clubs paying players' fines; cursing

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Date	Saturday, August 23, 1890
Text	[from a letter from Nick Young to an unidentified owner] As a rule, fines imposed by clear-headed and intelligent umpires are just, and very frequently they are only levied as a last resort to enforce respect for his decisions, but where a player can tell the umpire 'fine and be d----d; I don't have to pay it,' the umpire has no early control over the conduct of that player. In former seasons I have received several such reports. Last season the sum of $650 was paid into the League treasury on account of fines imposed on players by the umpires, and by reference to my accounts I find that $275 of this amount was contributed by one club in liquidating the fines of one player, who frequently informed the umpire, in substance, that he could go to h—l or any other seaport town, as his club was both wealthy and generous, and would settle any little financial differences.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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