Show BILLY EVANS SOLVES BASEBALL PROBLEMS written especially for this paper by tile the famous american S league umpire y several years ago a play caneup came up in one of the minor leagues that S created considerable discussion similar plays have come up in both bid bl leagues bu but t the same ruling has always been 0 adhered to despite the argument created by tho the 1 minor league happening both sides of the ilie ques 1 4 tion have been thoroughly threshed out many mahy times yet therease there ther eare are still some doubtful ones recently 1 I V saw tile the question bro it t up tip before a sporting a weekly that answers all such arguments tho editor in answering the question took the opposite a a ruling to aliat in vogue in both ilg big leagues stated a S 0 so in ills his answer and insists that he Is in the right S all opinions to the contrary notwithstanding S in the minor league game in question with one 4 man mail out in the last half of the ninth tile the home team needed throe three runs to lo win and two to tie with men hii on first and till third rd the butter batter hita sharp single S toleat to left field which men was Va played splayed badly by the outfielder the ball getting 40 3 away from him and rolling to fo the vince fince all three men scored on the 0 5 in S play anait and lt seemed that the home biome team had won the game As the al 3 X N 3 batter crossed the plate the crowd began to surge on the field va S V a atso it so happened that tho the man inan on first when the hit was made va S 0 a a failed to touch base tile the mis mistake taice was noticed by the third 0 g flashman fl aspman and ad also the umpire when the ball was thrown tin own in by the an fi a left fielder the third baseman received lt and touched third base the umpire thereupon declared out the man inan originally an on first who had f failed to touch that base that of course cut off a run A largo large portion of the crowd was on the III fild id at the time p the captain of the team in the beld beld then raised another angle ile he ap pp r a a insisted that since the batter had technically passed the runner ahead 1 I 91 of him becart because se that runner had failed to touch third lie he should also be declared oue out and that run also rendered vold void the umpire allowed S ia the claim thus the team last at bat believed it had won the game S by a run while the captain of the ille visiting team left believing that bo be I 1 had won by the same margin what would have been the proper ruling S answer to problem S major league umpires and practically lill all minor league officials aa a have a uniform ruling on this play had it come up in the big league go a a the runner who hid failed to touch third would of course have been a called out the run scored by the batter would have been allowed an a no attention would have been paid to tile the technicality that since the batter touched third base and the other player did not the former had technically passed the latter on the lines the opinion is held that atwould it would be decidedly unjust to punish a n runner thohas who has complied with oil S till all the rules simply because the pr preceding 1 runner has violated one of 10 be 3 the laws of baseball thus nel team would have been the winner the score would have been a tie and the team at but bat still had an 0 out S coming to them S copyright by tho the wheeler syndicate inc S ad |