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And then we disputed the umpire's decision on the ground he hadn't given us the whole thing! Does not this remind you of some of our baseball bad manners? It was settled later, and we got, differently located, about the original award. Did you learn in school about "fifty-four forty, or fight"? We were ready to take off our coat again.
These three matches and I could mention many others show how important it is to play hard right up to the last stroke of the match, letting nothing put you off, never losing your temper, taking umpire's bad decisions and all the little annoyances that may disturb you in a sportsmanlike manner keeping your whole attention, in fact, absolutely concentrated on the game.
It calmed down quickly, for the fans sensed trouble between Binghamton, who had been thrown out in the play, and the umpire who was waving him back to the bench. "You dizzy-eyed old woman, you can't see straight!" called Binghamton. The umpire's reply was lost, but it was evident that the offending player had been ordered out of the grounds.
He sent in one of his craftiest outshoots. For a wonder, Carter guessed it, and reached out for it -but missed. "Strike two!" followed almost immediately from the placid's umpire's lips. Everyone who hoped for the Army was trembling now. Dan Dalzell did some urgent signaling. In response, Darrin took an extra hard twist around the leather, unwound, unbent and let go. Crack!
The new man could be only a child born of contact between the new and the old energies. Both had been familiar since childhood, as the story has shown, and neither had warped the umpire's judgment by its favors. If ever judge had reason to be impartial, it was he. The sole object of his interest and sympathy was the new man, and the longer one watched, the less could be seen of him.
The interrogative "see?" that Murphy used to punctuate his sentences was invariably accompanied with a gesture of his hand that resembled a baseball umpire's gesture in calling a runner safe at a base more than anything John could think of. Before dinner that night Mrs. Gallant handed him an envelope which she said she received in the afternoon's mail.
The captain of the Greenites appealed from the umpire's and referee's decision to the football committee of the college, who gave it against him, and he then appealed to the Rugby Union, who decided that the umpire's decision was perfectly right, and the victory thus remained beyond further contention with the River-Smithites. "Bravo, Clinton!
That yell swelled to a splitting shriek, and Treadwell slid in the dust, and the ball shot into Gregg's hands all at the same instant. Carter waved both arms upwards. It was the umpire's action when his decision went against the base-runner. The audience rolled up one great stentorian cry. "Out!" I collapsed and sank back upon the bench.
Gordon loved to sit in the pavilion balcony watching the white forms change across between the overs, the red ball bounce along the grass, the wicket-keeper whip off the bails, the umpire's finger go up. The whole tableau was so unreal, so idealistic. Then the school would come down after lunch with rugs and cushions, and would clamour outside the tuck-shop for ices and ginger beer.
The costers and clerks set up a sort of a cheer when we came out, and one of them cried, 'God bless you, sir, to the doctor, but I was sorry they cheered. It seemed like kicking against the umpire's decision. The Colonel and I got into a hansom together and we trotted off into Chancery Lane and turned into Holborn.
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