1.   Baseball wanted to put umpires under their umbrella.

2.   It is a move obviously designed to put the umpires on the offensive and the leagues on the defensive.

3.   Later, however, Hendry conceded that the Alomar incident has put umpires in a heightened state of alert.

4.   The plan includes evaluation of performance and perhaps even putting umpires from both leagues in the same assignment pool.

5.   Meanwhile, organizers had been set to put one umpire on each boat, but changed their minds late Friday.

6.   Officials will revert to putting the umpires in power boats that flank the yachts.

7.   The Indians put the umpires under constant pressure, particularly for catches close to the wicket off their spin bowlers Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh.