| Show O O ii liTHE THE BASEBALL OUTLOOK I 00 00 n s re 00 op 00 00 Oo 00 gg 00 Ducic Beek EwinG tho 1 Malinger gg 00 00 tho Gone GlUM Will flown mitt Year gg 00 00 n baseball season of oC 1960 1900 will bo be boone I one of the most mOlt Important In rho history ol of the sport for tor ll It will mark a 11 turning port In the national game For some tars yar put past baseball h has been losing round The loss at first Will was r ry gradual bu but t for tor the tho last two to or three years has hae been In the na nature I ture of at a toboggan slide I II Titer Thre were many this de decline decline I cline In Interest one of the princiPAl I beIng that some lOrn of at the national league teams teama were not up to the standard get at atIn In put pest years Another was waa because the tho thoI I 1 club league was 1111 and the Jumps from on one town to tn another nother In Inmany Inmany many cases almost almot Impossible to IC ac accomplish cOl As Ae a mAtter ot of fact there cannot be 1 teams team ot of first close ban ball players be because cause there are aN nOt enough mn mat In the first flight to fill out It If some of the tm tame are made as ae strong tron a as they ought to be then oth others will have to be weak In some of the departments And It if all the finest players art are Impartially divided among the clubs then every tr team will be weak In on one point or an another other Now that the League has been reduced to eight clubs cluba every one can be perfect perfected t ed In It Its weak point from the players released by the tour four that have been dropped This has been dons doni to R a Rry avery very ry great extent and I look lack for tor very err and Ind games am during durIn the coming IUm summer r The a as arranged this year le II the tho be belt that we 8 have hats had for tor a long time Rn and that th IS another point that conduces to g od Dt Bad d umpiring was the cause caule of a good deal dOAI or of the laet Inet summer At the beginning ot of the It wee Wat thought that with the In or of the double umpire system all trouble on that score would be ban banIshed but this Wall soon JOn proved to be a atall tall fallacy The umpires gave v wrong deem clone Ilona and Would then than bbl between themselves over the renderings Then again In some the decide whose business It was Wal to toIve give Ive the decision A coed oaH In occurred nt at third bass baN The umpire at the plate saw laW the play but 10 say anything tJ because U he declared It was In the jurisdiction of at his hla partner The latter declared he was unable to see He the play In question be beu because cause u several mba got In Me way They Theyo o decide that to do for tor some IOme sometime time while the stood around listening to their WordY warfare There ilia may be 12 tn god od umpires umpire In this country but It if there nr ore we find them last lut year One good umpire is Ie t better ter by tar far than two Incompetent ao mat for tor my part I am glad the tho League Legue hu has decided to go back to the theold old lid t System tem this season MIlson Sella of the umpire complained that they were wro afraid to give right decisions In pertain cities When the Cincinnati team wu was plAying against St Lauds last lastar ar r In the litter town lInk hank ODay ODa node de a rank decision In favor tavor ot of the tb Browns I asked him after the game why h he had made each elich a palpable error II He frankly acknowledged that h he had given the decision wrongly and raid Mill h he knew It when M he did no but that he be was afraid to do otherwise because h he knew knewt t t It if h he It to us UI he would lit be mobbed by the St Louis play players anti and spectators tort Anti And till this brings me to the subject of I ol of which so much has been Id A As a matter ot of tact the tors tori are A as 1 a rule tar far more at fault tault thin than the player for or they urge on the men Inen with shouts and hurl epithets at tb the umpires that make them afraid to act impartially Sl as In the llie case I hll have Just mentioned The rules committee has mode made very Iry few changes chang title year ear The Th most moat portent alteration Is II the one ani which bloh mak lr akee th the pitcher face a side d instead of ofA ofa A corner or of tit the plate plat Till This 1 will tend to Inor the ot of the pitching I Id department d for the twirlers will have R a better nark mark to aim at It will at the thein pain in time t I hope do aw away with lIh much I ot of tM the present kicking as to whether a ahall hall 1111 U II a strike or not for tor the umpire wIll be able to decide much more mON surely whether It goes oe over tb the plate or not The Th rul about balk a good deal ot of tr trouble uble tit at the beginning ot of last lut I season Huon hot but chiefly from the tart fact that the umpires misunderstood the meaning or of the rule rul I remember one case eue In point The pitcher flitch Will was standing behind tit the home hom platE back backing ing Ine up the catcher after Itter a long lilt hit The hiell h 1 wee thrown In hand stepped by the pitcher while he WM was still on foul toul ground and while th there lie made a mo motion motion tion tu to throw It to third basee lie did dla not let It the hall ball go however and the umpire seat Dt the next man who lied hid not even come to the bat to fleet nt base ba claiming that a balk had been commIt commItted ted by the pitcher No Now this interpretation may po possibly have Men been technically correct according to the ot of the rune ruin but It cot cere not Jot Ih ties intention ot of the framers that It should be understood In any such weh fashion Umpires In baseball Jut juet as al In other sports port are supposed OMd to use Ule their hraha Ind In ul i In k well Veil III cc th nl n Itt Ht bo 6 In t gt Ip r If r th lh II I wit a kol the ther qty j 11 I o i JUI ty to those r h I n h i thelme Ii h for tor a rood IIO 11 was whether tl matt r Ir the b I plat Iby I b d a general r f rm fir n H or 10 r ag a To T U i 1 k fly rt ly no Th The I c ph r PI on the I no fa t cro r I r If 1 It t h when h en I donned y a r ek trick practiced n r J I t L t tJ Strick town Iton and used ud w JI ar t year Rr lIt Ilef II inset Lt It woud I I a g It I I avant a play or JI piece le or of eru tad Id not been used Iu r tAt t tAt At the end d of Inset II a several eral r 11 r 11 papers that t t th h 1 11 i had won th pennant c r right I ht field n I hitting ll I F and I r hew wrinkle tt It bell t I 11 I s a steam team had ever eEr mad t II a t tu f style Itte of I INow r Now It I very pry true in Il I it r I direction dim diu re 1 I tile the of the Ihl 1 sett that thit true r hut huh t 1 r surd lurd An Any GI i I i 1 memory box II omit ill t tell y y II i t R o Under Anton Anent n t r 1110 and k 1 tl th e to th ti I y lame will IJ br fund rund t I tn I Icard goad card to t n tl elegy II r I good pie players I t C cry ery no n H n I The lost fact that All J J 1 hI bit 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