Show HUSTON MIGHT TRY IT Scheme Echeme figured Out to Help Baseball Umpire A Toronto man has invented an apparatus apparatus atus that I is expected to do away with all close decisions at says lays the Buffalo Times like His idea ft 1 to remove all doubts a as to the runner or base baseman baseman man touches the plate tie fUit To announce the result to the cran crank r in the grand grandstand grandstand stand this latest Invention is provided with an electric bell which the baseman can ring If he reaches the base first and which the runner refiner can prevent him tram from ringing if he hO arrives at the plate tint so o arranged that they can be connected to cloSe cloae the circuit and ring the bell near the tao home plate The gloves have spring contacts In the palm which can wily only be closed by the pressure of the hail i it tn In the tho hand and his have me metallic metallic plates on the poke The gloves and no HI U J by v ned and when the baseman has the ball bail in hi his clenched be can stand on one plate ant touch another with hit his glove to close the th circuit and ring the bell to announce that the runner I is out Rut But should the rUnS run flee arrive at the base before the bull bell hs he car on one of th the plates thus pre the baseman from his Mg sig signal nal To prevent imposition on the part of the baseman it I g optional with the umpire which pair of plates shall be cOn and th pin h ha no ne means of until he arrives arrive at The base with the ball what ht he i is there being two connections home plate either of cn c car er erh d by the h umpire and nU to tOe lie baseman |