Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
SALARIES OF UMPIRES.
President Young Makes Plain Statement
on the Matter-He Says They Are
Well Paid and Praises His Staf-An
Interesting Comparis0n.

on the Matter-He Says They Are
Well Paid. and Praises His Staff-An
Interesting Comparison.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DTsPArCH.i
WASHINGTON, August 26.-"There is dis
POSITION" remarked President Young of the
League, this afternoon, Ito cavil at the salaries
paid our staff of umpires, and to impute miserly
motives to those who are conducting the affairs
of the National League. As matter OF fact L
don't know any class of men who are paid more
for the services than our umpires, and have
just finish ed making calculation from which it
appears that each member of the quartet Sc.
lected to decide points the ball field receives
salary of S63 63 each week of the season. These
figures do not include travelling expenses, the
allowance for which is about "a per diem, and
the hotels throughout the country do not hesl-
tate to give umpires the same rates that play
ers receive. Some time ago made an inquiry
as to what was paid a certain sporting writer
who was continually chiding the League Tor
parsimony in the matter of umpires' salaries,
and discovered that the young gentleman who
was foremost in advocating the cause of the
down-trodden umpire received the munincent
reward of SIS per week for services which re-
CURED him to put in daily IA hours out OF each
League umpires must be pretty well salts
fed with their: lot for they do not appear to be
in any great hurry to relinquish their positions
which pay 81 900 for the season of six months,
and we are all well pleased with the compost
tion of our present staff. 1t would be difficult
to find four better men than McQuaid, Lynch,
Curry and Powers and the substitutes that we
have chosen are not to be outdone for Impair
tiality by any other men in the baseball world.
Someone has started a story on the rounds that
/ am too partial to the New Yorks, and in fact
it has been publicly stated that 1 am decidedly
friendly to the Giants. This morning l wrote
= letter to the management of the Boston club
in which / alluded to the latter statement. and
concerning it, said: My baseball family con-
sists of eight members, and so far as friendship
is concerned / take as much interest IN one
club as the other. My sole aim is to have
these organizations creditable not only TO
themselves but to the association which they
represent as well. Sometimes too much IS eX-
pected of home umpire by the crowds who
are IN the stand and on the bleaching boards.
An illustration OF which can quote the case
of Knight, the substitute umpire at Boston.
He was frank enough to write to me on the
subject stating that he did not think he could
fulfil the duties of umpire satisfactorily to the
people of the Hub and requested to be relieved
from service in two of the games recently
played in that city. 1t is very seldom that 1
receive complaints from those who are most
interested in the game of baseball regarding
the conduct of umpires and especially is this
true of players. But the local papers take the
matter in hand and work up matters to fever
heat and then trouble begins to brew. / have
shown how some of this stuff is written by I'M
derpaid scrlbblers who have little else to do
and hereafter shall not pay any attention to
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