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Show WHAT RULE SAYS ON CALLED BALL GAMES Sporting Editor The Tribune, Fait Lake City. Dear S-ir-I was a spectator at the Ogden-Murray game, plaved on Lucas field last Sunday. At the end of the fifth inning the score stood: Ogden, 3" Murray, 1. Ogden, being" the visitor, batted bat-ted first. No run was made bv Ogden in the sixth inning, while Murray made 0 runs. While t hese n runs were being be-ing made the rain began to fall, so that it looked for a time an if it might he necessary to call the game; When the rainfall beg;in Murray had already scored 3 runs in - the sixth inning, which, with the one run made in the first Inning, would have put Murray in the lead over Ofiden. I wish to ask you this: if it had been neeessary for the umpire to call the game at tlutt juncture, with Murrav actually in the lead, but with the in"- j ning uncompleted, would the game have ' been awarded to Ogden by a score of 3 to 1 tit the end of the fifth inning, or would it have gone to Murray wit h a seor'c of 4 to 3 with an uncompleted sixth inning? Yours very trulv, BASEBALL. Salt Lake, June 24. Murray would have won. The rule governing this point reads: "Rule 2T If the umpire mils a game in accordance accord-ance with rule 22, section 3. at any time j after five innings have been completed, tlie score shall be that of the last equal innings played, except that If tlie side second at. bat shall have scored In an unequal number of innings, or before the completion of the unfinished Inning, at least one run more than the side first a t ha t. the score of the game shall be the total of runs each team haa made.' |