View source for Clipping:Advice to umpires 2

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=6/16/1865
|Title=advice to umpires 2
|Text=<p>Now a word as to Umpires.  This position is certainly one of great embarrassment, and responsibility, and where an Umpire desires to act impartially, prompt and decisive, he is forced to watch every movement of the players, and keep his eye continually on the ball.  To err is human, and hence when an Umpire, acting with a desire to discharge this unpleasant duty faithfully, commits an error, or renders a decision, which to a player may seem unjust, or even palpably wrong, have charity, and give him credit for the good decisions he has rendered, and let them counterbalance the errors.  And it is a great error to suppose that when a decision is rendered through misapprehension, or a wrong impression, which afterwards exhibits itself, that a decision once given should never be reversed.  If the Umpires sees he has committed error, he should promptly and decisively reverse his decision, and no player should be a loser through the stubbornness of the referee.  Col. Fitzgerald sums up an Umpire's duty, under three heads.  First, keep your eye on the ball.  The second, is still more more [sic] important, keep your eye on the ball.  The third, is the most important of all and sums up the whole—keep your eye on the ball.  Then let him give his decisions in a clear, loud voice, promptly rendering his decisions the moment he forms the opinion in his own mind.  Then, he should remain unmoved, if he thinks he is right, and correct them if he is wrong.</p>
|Source=Brooklyn Daily Eagle
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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