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Show BASEBALL RULES GOOD ENOUGH AS THEY ARE Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. Dec. 5. Probably because be-cause tho baseball experts in tho west havo nothing else to comment upon at this time, they aro digging up the old movement about wanting more batting In baseball- This subject has been gone over eo often that it no longer can bo considered significant. The magnates havo taken up tho matter at diderent times during the past five years, but finally became convinced that tho rules of tho game are good enough as they are- While batting is a big feature in baseball, base-ball, the patrons of the game enjoy scientific scien-tific fielding and pitching just as much. Tho pitcher studies tho batter, and It Kots so that a pitcher soon learns tho weakness of every batter. Then, again, the fielders got to know just how che batter swings at tho ball. He knows that the pitcher can curve tho ball so that tho batter will hit into right or left field, and the fielder is there or thereabouts there-abouts when the ball Is hit. There aro so-called placo hitters in the business men who can fool the fielder but. there are a lamentably few of thoso batters. There is plenty of batting In baseball, or else the present day playcro do not hit as well a3 they did In the old time. Tho vetorans say no, but they will not admit that tho pitchers arc stronger and trickier than In the old days. |