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Show UMPIRES DO NOT USE NEEDFUL DISCRETION Plastering Fines for Kicking Is Not Well Done. Some Arbiters Stand for Murder From One Team and Won't Permit Players Play-ers From Another to Make Slightest Complaint. The umpires are plastering fines on players for kicking. This is all very well if It Is done impartially, but there are times when some of the arbiters ar-biters seem to stand for murder from one team while another cannot even say "Excuse me" without being chased In a body to the showers and have something subtracted from the next bit of stipend, writes W. O. McGeehan in New York Tribune. Of course, as a lot of magnates declare, de-clare, we must have discipline in the great national pastime and, the umpire is the representative of law and order and all that sort of thing. But sometimes some-times some of the umpiring is more or less rotten and calculated to draw as loud a squawl from the player as it does from the innocent bystander. Mr. R. Bipllng has said something about the American inclination to flount the law he makes or something like this, and this national trait very naturally creeps into the national pastime, or else it wouldn't be a national pastime. It would be an international one like tennis, where a umpire never yet has been forced to duck a pop bottle even In St. Louis. It may be that I am an outlaw at heart, because I am entertained by a healthy squawk. And if I am an outlaw out-law for this there are a lot of others with me. Umpiring requires a lot of discretion. That's why umpires are scarce. |