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Show : WOTJLD GIVE BATTER HIS BASE ON "BEAN BALL" ; 0 NKW YOKK, July Owing to i tlio frequency with which balls are ! thrown to intimidate hatters in Iiase- .hall ;ames and fearing fatal con sequences se-quences therefrom, t'harles Khhets, president of the Brook I vn National I ea e club, has written to .1 o h n Touer, president of the National league, requesting that whenever in the judgment of an umpire the so-called so-called "Heaii ball" is thrown, the umpire should immediately award the. batsman his base, regardless of the number of balls and strikes which may be on the batter at the time. In addition to citing the recent Carl Mays ease in the American league, with the death of Johnny Dodge, the Southern association player, Mr. Ebbets said that Pitcher Barnes of the Boston Nationals narrowly nar-rowly missed hitting both Stengel and Daubert on the head in a recent re-cent game in Brooklyn and that Pitcher Tesreau of tho Giants actually ac-tually did hit Daubert on the head in a game on the Brooklyn grounds. |