"One strike!" called the umpire.

"In choosing umpires, the avarice of whom is excited.

"Suppose I appoint an official umpire to say which of the other two interpreters is correctand let them decide who he shall be?" This proposition was received with grunts of satisfaction by the two antagonists, who conferred together with astonishing amiability and almost immediately conducted into the court room a tall, emaciated Chinaman who they alleged was entirely satisfactory to both of them.

"Second down, five yards to gain!" cried the umpire.

I have experienced umpires who do not even know how to score!

So fought the knights, and fighting must abide, Till fate an umpire sends their difference to decide.

Should there be difficulty in getting an umpire who knows something of his work, I think the match should take care of itself.

Now memory wakes her silent string, And holds her umpire in the brain; And brings as she alone can bring, The image of the past again.

But you must never allow the crowd to influence the umpire.

The Editor of the GUIDE would offer one suggestion to league presidents and umpires; it is this: whenever two possible plays occur in conjunction, instruct the chief umpire always to turn to the spectators and inform them which player is out.

This condition is partially explained by the suggestion afterwards made that instead of leaving the umpire to be chosen by some friendly European power it might be better that he should be elected by the members of the commission themselves, and a modification is then proposed that "the commission shall be instructed to look for highlands which both parties might acknowledge as fulfilling the conditions of the treaty."

Where fashion makes the lawyour umpire which You bow to, whether it has brains or not.

It was proper, therefore, to provide some umpire from whose situation and mode of appointment more independence and freedom from such influences might be expected.

"Striketwo!" sang the umpire.

"Hillton's ball; first down," announced the umpire.

His eldest son, Tomour old friend the keepergenerally stands umpire; he is not so useful to his side as village umpires usually are, because he hasn't got the moral courage to give his side "in" when he knows perfectly well they are "out."

Why not allow spectators to assault the umpires, just as if they were football referees?

Him therefore both the deities create The sovereign umpire in their grand debate; And he declared for Jove; when Juno, fired More than so trivial an affair required, Deprived him, in her fury, of his sight, And left him groping round in sudden night.

John thinks it very unjust that he must give up his ball to Tom, and resolves to have the matter out when they get down into the street; while Tom, equally dissatisfied, feels that he has been treated like a baby, and despises the umpire for the partial decision.