Show I PECULIAR PLAY I Mr W W. D. D Bratz Sporting Editor Telegram Salt Lake City Utah Dear I wish Ish you would give o your our opinion on the decision of Mr rr McAndrews MeAn MeAn- An- An drews umpire In la last t Sunda Sundays Sunday's a ball game at nt Walkers Walker's rs r's field between the Occidentals and the thc Murra Murray baseball team The Tho dispute dis dis- dis was In the fifth firth Inning When h n Means of or tho the Murrays Iun-a's was vas as on first base hase and Hummel hit a fJ fly ball bait to 10 Hawkins at ot short Hawkins dropped dropp d tho the ball and am then touched second and then sent pent the ball to first base Hummell and Means Jeans did not run Mana Manager er Black of or the Occidentals Occidentals dentals objected to decision lon Was as Black right or wrong rong In his contentions contentions contentions conten conten- Hoping Hopin to see your opinion In THE EVENING TELEGRAM very ry truly O 0 BURNS DURNS If tb this s department is correct correctly y informed informed in formed for Umpire must have havo whispered his decision to himself the umpire decided that Hawkins had bad hold held the ball momentarily and then purposely dropped it and that therefore therefore there there- fore foro he called out only the batter Hummel Tho The play as 38 I remember it it it- occurred when with one out and Means on first Hummel hit a high fly lIy to Hawkins Haw kins at short Hawkins Hawking according to tomy tomy I Imy my view dropped the ball purpose purposely when hen ho he sa saw that neither nor nor Means Menns intended to advance Hawkins immediately picked up the ball baHt stepped on to LO o second base and then threw th thA ball ban to first I know that if the decision had been c given riven cn against a team over ocr which I wore presiding at a time when every game counts I would have protested even stronger than Man Manager Jer Black did I cant can't see wherein Umpire McAndrews could have called it anything other than thana a double play When Hawkins dropped the tho ball baU which by tho the way was not an nn infield 11 fly as ns many of the fans tans in inthe inthe in inthe the grand stand termed it it there was nothing in the world to prevent him from completing a double play pIny When H Hawkins touched second base he retired re reo tired Means who was forced oK oft from first first and when he threw the tho ball to first he retired Hummel because the latter after hitting the ball returned to the bench Of cour course e the question arises arises did dad Hawkins Hawking hold the ball mom momentarily I Ido Ido Ido do not think that ho he did according to all accepted precedent Personally I feel feet assured that Hawkins dropped the ball purposely but he did it just about as gracefully as if it had been the real thing I consider that Black was entitled to toa a double play ay and that Hummel who most surely on tho the play should have been fined for not Dot running out the ball W. W D. D B. B |