Clipping:Clubs undermine umpires' authority

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Date	Sunday, August 29, 1886
Text	[from Chadwick’s column] I asked [George “Foghorn”] Bradley whey it was he and other American Association umpires allowed so many players of the American club nines to dispute their decisions with such impunity as they did, and his reply was to the effect that fining them would not stop their kicking. He quoted Comiskey, of the St. Louis team, as an example. “Comiskey told me,” Bradley said, “that I might go on and find him just as much as I damned please, but that the fines would not be paid.” Bradley further remarked that when umpires fined players the club to which the punished player belonged would not back up the umpire in inflicting the penalty, but went against him by efforts to remove him from his position, and to save themselves umpires had to stop fining players, except in very aggravated cases. This being the existing condition of things it is not to be wondered at that there is so much kicking against decisions of umpires as there is.
Source	Philadelphia Times
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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