Clipping:Grumblings about the umpire from idle club members

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Date	Sunday, September 18, 1859
Text	We only regret that among the spectators at these matches there should be evinced so ripe a disposition to find fault with the decisions of the umpires, and that these growlers too frequently prove to be idle members of the clubs engaged in the match. Every gentleman who officiates as umpire is selected by the captains, but the position, in consequence of the grumbling, and not unfrequently insulting remarks of outsiders, has become so unenviable, that it is difficult to get anyone to assume the place. The very fact, if nothing else, that there are so many pairs of eyes watching the proceedings must induce an umpire to act impartially in his decisions; and we do think that common decency, and gentlemanly courtesy, should, under the circumstances of the case, restrain all comment upon the proceedings on the part of the spectators of a match.
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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