Show BAN DOES NOT FAVOR EBBETS PLAN i CHICAGO July 22 President President B B. B. B Johnson of the American league would give the batter baiter two bases whenever he heIs heis I Is 13 hit lit in the head by a pitched ball bali Instead in instead instead In- In stead or ot one base as at present In order to deter pitchers from Intimidating the batsman Ill In a statement made public publia here he disagrees with the suggestion recently made b by President Ebbets of the Brooklyn National league club that thata a batsman be given his base any time the pitcher tries in the opinion of ot the umpire to hit the batter in the head had He I thinks the Ebbets plan would only add ado to the troubles of ot the umpire and would lead to more wrangling I I am loath to believe Mr Johnson said that any player in the game grame would deliberately Injure another but there seems to be a growing belief that pitchers pitch pitch- ers are resorting to throwing balls bails at a players player's head in order to intimidate himor himor him hint hintor or drive him away from the plate According According According Ac Ac- cording to the reports that belief beliet was largely responsible for some of the the la lat latest latest lat lat- test t- t est outbreaks on the fieldIn fieldIn field In that case It Jt may be well to provide some plan of minimizing the po possibility of such nuch methods being employed by pitchers in the future How lio would it do 30 doto doto to inflict double penalty nalty on the pitch pitcher or who hits a batsman on the neck or head by giving the batter two bases arbitrarily ily lIy |