Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 50, 15 Nowemapa 1893 — REMOVING THE UMPIRE. [ARTICLE]

REMOVING THE UMPIRE.

At ihe loeal cricket matches ih the Foivst at Notlingham. a polieeuian or two are usua!lr “toKl off” to prevent the spectators from encroaching too far over the i>oundaries whi!eagame i? in progress. At a match a few Saturday aflernoona ago, a young and bumptious niember of “the Force,” who evi« dently could not have long livevi in Nottingbam, was very energetic in carrying out these instructione. Having persuaded, at the start i f the innings, the oulix>kers to keep far enough frora the tield of j>lay, he shoUted peremptonly to theumpire— who bappened to be a man who usually affects the garb of a rustic — to *'Cum furrer back, master. won’t ’ou?” As the urapire disregarded, of course, the lusty aj>peal of “the man in blue,” the latter made no more to do, but hastened up to square leg, and seizing the man—whowas none other than the pore ofaraember of the Notls County e!even —unexpectediy from behind, lifted him “neek and croj).’’ and deposited hnu boldily on the fringe ofthe crob, accompanied with the mark:— ‘*rve told you hoffen enuf to shift.” The laughter at the unfortunato nmpire. and the jeers and taunts hurled at “Bobby,” rendered that sjK>t a “tormeuting ground,” and his office by no means a sinecuro for the remainderof the afternoon, and would, it is to be hoped, teach him at Ieast the most elementary rudiments of cricket. —Tit Bit*.