Show I P PROPOSED PO f RULES f FOR f LL James A Hart Gives His Ills Ideas on The Greatly Discussed Question FIRST BASE VASE ON OH THREE BALLS BAILS lie Thinks There Should he Greater Uniformity Between the lug Hip Basc ball hall Leagues Sunday flames Mate Many changes in baseball rules have hae proposed during the tho last few fol months by hy men inca who huc ho should be hp I toil to gle Itle advice on tin the th subject James Jarne JamesA A Hart Is III the flue latest to make ninko SUeH I flouts for or the time Improvement t of or the flue ni nut pastime to n a Cin Cincinnati In dispatch III he hI says ImS of o rules rulen rul tot for t the Iho whole country Is I one of ot the hue most Im 1111 Important and essential features of ot the tho gant Some of or tim thu critics have hn been heen saying that such variations as lIS a t foul toni strike rule rula In one ono league mid no such bus liw In III another would riot not matter It would matter The rules should bo bl kept In III oil nil tho hue I I luiso Ie been strongly In favor faor of ot a ball bait rule giving the batsman his hish hare h fo on three called balls balis Instead nd of four but I have hn decided not to urge Its this season Let Iut the tie present rules be he tested for another seas sen an Just as us they lucy are Were ere IC I to advocate any nil change now It would seem m as though I were WIri ero recoiling receding from fromn fromI I my may position o ns as an all unchanged champion of ot the foul I All Au the Ih changes In rules tule for tho the past hast pastO 20 O years lars have hutte been 1000 made nut not with any allY Idea of radical I departures but to keep the tt game just at UH Itt bust hist and most of the tho changes s have hae bruit been necessitated by in II the lie fact that the tho players grow too tIO oo shrewd for or the rules outgrew the stat statUtes Utes and had to bo governed by hy new laws I au s Wo I abolished the flue hound bound because the tho players pla wH were getting It down too trIP fine Then Theil we sue had to do away with I t ii the t ito foul t I p on I for tor It I t came cameto Ca to such lIuch a it 1 pass that the catchers were Vera their lingers clucking with their tongues or even een snapping rubber bands to fool the thu th umpires and tho the en ensuing suing lulng rows 1018 were vere endless As The Tho of that rule rulo last lost flue tho team I had at that time the lIo the pennant We e ere beaten out by h one game genie and we would havo huau won son by b a II dozen for tor forJohn forJohn John Clarksons rise ball bail was wan always t clicking off ott of Into Up tip nimbi fouls and aini Charlie Bell nett had hati the tue trick of ut nailing them Item down to perfection I A little later wo 0 found that the thur had gained the tue II lit 1 over Oer the UIO batsmen to a n lop lopsided sided shied extent and M Vi set the thu Pitchers a rt imet back butch In III I a the thc lb e diamond ii ha Then the th I hue Intentional I ut e mu t homiel fouling ton I I ng off art artof of good balls and the tho consequent delay delayIng dehl lag Ing of lit the thu games and the tue rule Ill ii was ui S found tutu needful mu eed to I to fit Il t tho hue case aso Magnates are ure nil all selfish and nit all In Inconsistent inconsistent consistent They Inveigh against the flue rules handicapping the huts hats men antI and then I ii en go O out alit and ii nil pay ia big sill sal ii to tu pitchers lit letters with vl t ii cx flit ability I I ty III In tooling batters Why Wh hy dont they the use uso only Pitchers whom the bat hat lets ems pound POU ii ii nil all ii i I over oer r tho t hi 0 Hold It the flue batting Is so feeble Why Wh they tho m I the flue rules rides which kept the tho from frol raising his hlA arm higher than his hlA head or 01 keep keell the tho rule nile which made ii e him ii I in plant t boUt both feet fee t on the ito t ground and II nil keep them hueni I there lucre t gel ler magnate anil about every eel fan fi n looks look at lit the rumba rulea only from his own teams nulls of ot view lew The Flue magnate with a it lot of heavy hl hitters time tho foul strike law lall as nil a n sin sill alit a n shame Tim Tho magnate who linn hits tho the fast pitchers thinks the tho rule ride Is III great stuff sturt and Just what the Ihu Ito genie game Personally I think the tho people iii like hike to ti pee FCC close chose ria SO test fliRt games gui and I 1 Ia lava heard no mio complaints in t i mu s I such games ge mm tea from rout the Ihl t hue crowds coming away avay from remit the Plucks parks When tho lie farm titan do ii register a ii kick It must be he re that hat the th rules tire are the tho ever eer when tho the home homa team wins and aro Pimply when out our own JIll club loses or Of v I r dont ii iii I deny the he t unfelt patent fact that hunt get got the flue mastery of ot now nol rules rubs much quicker er than hatters batters Thin Is IH not Jot owing to the fait that thiat pitch pitchers ers ets tire are more inure Intelligent titan than tho the aver ago players In the tho other othor hut but because tho Ito pitcher handles tho timo ball bali more niece amid gets more nuoi r In a II game each batter faros faces the his pitcher hitcher four tilt times That means that tho thin pitch pitcher er I 1 gets 16 6 chances Lou for practise the flue development of at his lii hl S skill sk I ii while each ellch hi bat ha batter I Iter ter gets get hut haul four fourAs OUr As 11 to Sunday ball bail he lie cald Let Lot cm cia play all nil the time Sunday ball they flue tho want AH All far ns liS I am concerned I 1 would bo be pleased If It every ry club climb In both leagues could cou d play ball both bothi ut lit a home and it 01 abroad |