Clipping:When the umpire can follow the testimony of spectators

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Date	Sunday, April 29, 1866
Text	[from a column of advice to umpires] The umpire has no right to give a decision upon a point of play he has not seen; or to decide upon any point in dispute by the testimony of any of the contestants. He alone is the judge of the play, and if he has not seen a man touched or a ball caught, he has no right to decide a man out. In cases, however, when a foul ball is caught by a fielder outside the circle of spectators, and when hundreds of witnesses can testify to a catch being made, he will not do wrong to regard the catch as made, although he may not have seen it. But still, unless such overwhelming proof as that of a crowd of spectators is furnished, he should only decide by what he sees himself.
Source	Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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