. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. .1^^%=%^ ^pps^p®TO?i Vol. IX. No. 22. iSo. 508 MONTGOMERY STREET SAN FRANCISCO. SATUEDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1886. Sportiig- Notes. There is one prominent featnre of the present style of base- ball playing that deserves severest condemnation. It is the habit indulged in by many players of "; Recently two well-contested games were brought to a sudden close before they were half played out through disputes between the players and umpies. The habit of many players who are well known, but whose names need not be mentioned, is eimply disgraceful. Upon th
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. .1^^%=%^ ^pps^p®TO?i Vol. IX. No. 22. iSo. 508 MONTGOMERY STREET SAN FRANCISCO. SATUEDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1886. Sportiig- Notes. There is one prominent featnre of the present style of base- ball playing that deserves severest condemnation. It is the habit indulged in by many players of "; Recently two well-contested games were brought to a sudden close before they were half played out through disputes between the players and umpies. The habit of many players who are well known, but whose names need not be mentioned, is eimply disgraceful. Upon the smallest pretest men will get up a wrangle, and, right or wrong, stick to their version of the law with persistence worthy of a better cause. In some matches, and when certain players are not running the bases or batting, they never allow an inning to pass without a well developed aud unseemly wrangle. In the crowd these fel- lows always have partisans, men who like to hear themselves shout, aud they invariably take up the side of the quarrel- some player, and try by initimidatiug yells to howl the umpire down. The really competent judges of the game never take part in these displays. They come to see the game played on its merits, not to listen to howling matches that suggest bed- lam or pandemonium, aud the uninformed or half informed think that wisdom is born of the multitude. Hence, the pop- ular voice is against the umpire, and unless he is thoroughly competent and a man of more than ordinary nerve he cannot stand the pressure and gives way. From that hour his doom is sealed, the loud-mouthed kickers know him and brow-beat him out of every decision where there is a chance for two intelligent opinions. Umpires are only human, and baseball umpires are not always men of the highest intellectual calibre. But the greatest weakness they can display, is weakness. Fliuching under the vociferous demands of seemingly angry players who make a pretense of being hardly used. Of cour
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