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Show WEN MOREUUUD PUT GISEBia 01 ICE Act Brought Forth a New League Rule, Later Abandoned. Taking strange are the reasons baseball base-ball rules havo been changed. For years nobody could open a box of balls ex-con ex-con t tho umpire, although this is not followed any more. Tlio man who made tho rulo ueeosnary has now told tlio in-siilrj in-siilrj storv of his u'h(.'mc. 1'ittshi'irg and Boston woro billed for an important sorius back in 1S93. (ieore Mnroland, then an official of tho Pirate-., kopt tho hc.xrjt of balls in a safe and hfiil oxi-lusivo charge of them. One day, for an experiment, lie took all but one of tho balls and put them on ice. lie didn't removo tho cover or break tho seal. Tho next afternoon, tho day of the big serien, ho wont up to A I Buckon-borger, Buckon-borger, the Pirate manager. ''Al, I had a dream lant night, " ho said. " I drenmed that Nichols was pitching for tho Beans and that wo went to bat first, j Smith singled. Donovan sacrificed and Stencel singled, scoring the only run of the game. Ho went to bat first, eeo? That's my hunch." Follows Dream. Puckonbcrger thought a moment. Then said: M'H follow that tin today. There's nothing in tho rules against the homo club batting first." "Now, remember," cautioned More-hind. More-hind. "Toll the boys I dreamed that Smith singled, Donovan sacrificed and Stencel singled. Then that Jake Beck-lev Beck-lev fouled tho ball over tho fence. It won't come true, unless it is all followed. fol-lowed. ' ' Pittsburg went to bat first, much to tho surprise of the fans, and Moreland tossed out the only ball thatt hadn't been placed on ice. Tho umpire tore off tho cover and threw it to Nichols, who was the pitcher, as Morelaud had dreamed. T "11 never forget that game," laughed "Moreland. "Everything came out oxactlv as I had dreamed. Smith cracked the pill for a single and Donovan Dono-van sacrificed. Smith scored when Stencel crashed a single. 'Make Bockley, always good at fouling foul-ing them off, lost the ball over tho stand ana I threw one of the iced balls out to the umpire. It was incasod in its separate box and cover, so nobody suspected sus-pected anything. "Several of the balls were used before be-fore the battle was over. They were liko punk. Tt was impossible to drive them past the infield. The pnficlders of both sides certainly wero kept busy on agists. ' Under the conditions, nobody could pi t a run and tho game ended with Pittsburg victor, 1 to 0. Everybody was hollering about the balls, but they looked all righh Covers were on and the seal unbroken. "It wasn't till long afterward that mv secret came out and then a rule was p;issed making such a proceeding impossible impos-sible in the future. Some dream, I claim." I |