Show Grayson's GraysoN s 's Scoreboard By H Harry rry Gr Grayson NEA Sp Sports Editor NEW V YORK Jan 26 Baseball 26 Baseball men laugh at Raymond Dumont's reverse base running proposal but the semiprofessionals will try it out in the game opening the national national national na na- na- na tournament In Wichita in August President Dumont insists that the he national semipro congress will definitely add the Wrong Way Corrigan plan to its official rules if it proves successful in the thc test Ray Dumont who makes a business business business busi busi- ness of thinking up everything from the thc disappearing microphone at the plate to putting boxing gloves on pickpockets doubts doub that organized baseball would consider such a move a-move even if the public goes for it Organized baseball isn't very progressive he poin points out Any new Idea receives a cold reception from 99 per cent of the thele people le asserts Upper Thinker Dumont They said suu Alexander Dumont They said suu Alexander Graham Bell had bells in his belfry and that was one of the few times they toey were right Baseball requires a shot in the arm he insists adding that football football football foot foot- ball and basketball made rapid advancement advancement advancement ad ad- because they acquired razzle dazzle and fire department offenses Why not have players and fans wonder what's going to happen next especially when one or more batters get on the paths 1 asks Dumont He stresses that it would be interesting to sec see what happens when a runner attempts to steal third from second while another nother tries to advance from third to sec sec- ond and No doubt about it And what a a EC scream scream m it wo dlf if both were caught between the same two bases on a run down On sacrifices infielders would have to be the batter in advance They'd have to keep their theirl heads up to discover which way the batter elects to get on base basc Dumont tells you it Jt would be al almost almost almost al- al most impossible to get more than three runners on the paths at t any any anyone one time The way he figures It only once in innings on an anav av average rage would there be four or more runners only once in 1000 times Umes as many as five or orthe the maximum maximum maximum max max- of six which would mean that the bas bases would be loaded both ways Dumont further reveals that givIng giving giving ing the thc batter the thc option n of ot running running running run run- ning either to first or third base basc would require to four r umpires because because because be be- cause of the many complications which would arise especially when runners started running opposite directions on a sacrifice bunt Ray Dumont seems seem to think he has something new i Ob Obviously the president of the national semipro congress wasn't in Brooklyn in the days of ot Babe Herman b but t he should have been |