Clipping:Minor league umpire salaries

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Date Wednesday, April 10, 1889
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[editorial matter] The Southern League in its efforts at retrenchment has acted well in every direction but one. The reduction of the umpires' salaries to $125 per month, including expenses, was most unwise, as it will impair the League's service in a most important particular. It will be utterly impossible to secure umpires of even mediocre calibre for that money, and if there is any section where good umpires are needed it is in the fiery South. It would have been far better had the League not reduced the amount from the old figure, $175 per month, and it would be well to reconsider and return to that figure. Better economize at some other point, or if that be impossible, make up the difference somehow and have a decent umpire service—a most essential requisite to good ball playing and popular enjoyment of the game.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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