Show Find Diamond Made nd Made Wrong League Races Are Effected Important changes will wUl be made nade in inthe inthe inthe the size of baseball diamonds diamond followIng following follow follow- ing discovery that m mistakes stakes in measuring measuring meas- meas meas the pitching distance and placing pIne pIne- ing bases have handicapped pp d' d pitchers pitcher and b With baseball a a- second split s ond and games hinging hinging on decisions where a fra fraction tion ot of a second 1 or or an Inch of space would make a big difference pennant rac races s have been effected by bythe bythe bythe the mistakes 7 t There is no telling how many runners runners runners run run- ners have been called I out when they hey should have been safe sate many batters have been made hits they did not deserve It is said that in some some- cases the pitching distance was measured from the front end of home plate The rules say the distance should be pe measured from the intersecting boundary lines JInes of the diamond at the rear of ot the plate The plate is seventeen inches long so pitchers when the distance has been measured wrong have b been en inches farther from batters than they should have hav been Seventeen inches I is plenty to spoil the effect of a curve curve ball The ball in that case would break so far ahead of the plate the the- batter batter batter bat bat- ter could see It 11 and tell teU what kind of ball was being served him It has bas been understood bases should be ninety feet apart This is wrong In cases where there have been ninety feet between the bags runners hay have had to go two feet three Inches farther I between the the- plate and first base and I the the same same between third base and home i plate than they should have goneA gone A runner on first where the bases are ninety feet apart would be compelled compelled com corn to take a lead 22 inches great great- the normal lead to steal second the same bame effort if the base were correctly placed First and third bases according to rules for laying out a diamond should be entirely within the boundary lines and only one-fourth one of ot second base should be within the lines Jines The distance distance dis dis- distance dis- dis tance of ot ninety feet between home and first and between home and third should be measured from the intersecting intersect intersect- ing lines behind the plate to the intersecting Intersecting intersecting Inter inter- lines at the edge of the dia din diamond diamond mond and not from the edge of one base to the other Twelve in inches hes of home plate and fit teen inches of first base and third base the width of ot the tM bags should touch the boundary lines The actual distance between bases should be f t. t Home plate plat to first base base 87 87 inches 9 inches j f First base 1 to tb second base base SS 88 feet 1 inches Sam Same from second to third Third bas baser to home plate plate 87 87 feet 9 Inches Credit for fort discovery of ot errors and chances for r misunderstanding the rules for measuring belongs to the School of Umpires of Cincinnati Ohio the only one of the the kind in the country Students Students Students Stu Stu- dents taking up every phase of the game made the discovery J J. J Howard Howard Howard How How- ard Renshaw who invented the chool school communicated ted with major league officials daIs Investigations and changes were ordered |