Show NEW BASEBALL RULES This Year the Umpire Is an Absolute Abso-lute Autocrat Washington Feb 7The recommendations recom-mendations of the committee to prepare pre-pare new playing rules for the national league and American association of professional baseball clubs ha been I given out for publication Under the caption the umpire the nsertion of a note calling attention to 4 advice to umpires printed in the addenda to the playing rules is recommended recom-mended Is a follows You are the absolute master of the field from the beginning to the termination termi-nation of the game You are by these rules given full authority to order any player captain or manager to do or to omit to do any act which you made ma-de m necessary to maintain your dignity and compel respect from players play-ers and spectators > changes are recommended in the rules governing the playing of the game proper the changes being more in the nature of improving the discipline disci-pline surrounding the game and malting malt-ing certain rules less ambiguous The report conduces We are emphati ally of the opinion that whenever < trouble has arisen on the ball field it has at least aJvays been caused by the fact that the umpire has failed to observe the rules Many important rules which have been created to I i maintain the dignity of the same have I become dead letters and inoperative I simply because the umpires declined to I enforce them This we consider radically wrong I Is useless to adopt rules or make changes in ruler already adopted unless the rules are enforced by tit umpires JAMES T HART Chairman EDWARD HANLON A B BEACH Committee Commitee i |