Clipping:Reasons for poor umpiring
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| Date | Saturday, July 3, 1869 |
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| Text | How any player can read this rule, and , remembering it well, fail to interpret it correctly in his ruling in a match without laying himself open to a charge of partiality in his decisions or of alack of intelligence in comprehension, I cannot perceive. One great cause of erroneous decision in regard to calling balls, arises from the prevailing idea with players who acts as umpires, that they have a right to decide in the matter not in accordance with the spirit or letter of the law; but only as they consider fair and right. Another cause of bad ruling in this respect, is the too general neglect in not reading up for the position. I have seen men take the position this season who had not even seen a book of the rules since 1867. Custom, too, goes a great way in causing poor umpiring, many umpires following the example of others whom they have heard spoken of as giving good decisions, instead of reading the rules for themselves. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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