Show art BILLY EVANS SOLVES BASEBALL PROBLEMS written especially for this paper by the fam ou american league umpire frank chance figured figure lit III tin nn unusual play vint that came up tip tit in the amor airier lean ican league st louis and now new york were placing ng it 11 series in st louis in the gabne tit in question st louls louis heli held it a fairly good leml leall 11 neit the seventh or eighth tit in nang ing when tell dinner chance decided to employ sonic some pinch hitting it wits this which caused the confusion and the protest unit that follow lowed cd I 1 I 1 chance decided to go in I 1 and hit for the alio pitcher who was the first man mail up in fit tilt the inning ile he started a rally and before the browns could realize it iti thu tho now yorker t who Z had not appeared to have a chance were evened up III chance lifter after batting for the pitcher took up tho ilia couching coaching nt at third baw with three or four runs across the plato and it couple ix I 1 of men ou on the bases one of 0 the new york players yelled front from the bench youre up III again nui manager nager chance hastened from the alio coaching lines to tile the got ills bat anti and sent a single through bhart scoring I 1 ro runs and later 1 1 cros lux hie plate himself now when chance took I 1 ills second turn tit nt tile tho bill bat t derrick aho vho ito wits was playing short and hitting eighth should have been the batter ile iio was asleep lit at the switch and never did bat in tills this inning hi which new frank chance york anade seven runs and 1 went into the lend lead not until the end of the toning inning was the mistake discovered then just tabs n the alio first st loula louis player stopped stepped into the batters batt cra box one ot of tilt scribes in alie llio press box managed to apprise the st louis team of the ilia ms take A big protest followed before the gaino was continued continue with tile alio score 8 to 8 3 against them st louis made three runs before the close ot of tile the game bringing the score up tip to 8 to 0 the final result titus thus it turned out that had not chance batted out of order the ilia game would havo have been won by the drowns browns 0 to 5 why do you suppose this was not tile tho final score answer to problem the umpire in charge refused to consider tho the protest of the browns and the alie kamo game was later protested but tile the protest was not allowed the rule on oil this point anys that the batsman la Is not out for such a n mistake unless the fact that lie he has batted out of order Is discovered before a ball lias has been delivered to the he succeeding batsman rn in the st it louis game a couple of men batted after chance und and some eight or ten balls were pitched before the error was discovered so the game went conf into tho the records as 8 to 6 in favor of new york tho the rules niles on batting out of order are arc A trifle confuting confusing one rule says that tile alio umpire must take no action unless the mistake be found out before a ball him has been pitched to the succeeding batter rule 1557 says that hint with two exceptions which are cited the umpire shall declare the batsman out without hafting wafting fo for r fin an appeal in all cases where the player Is put out in accordance with tilt the rules neither of these exceptions deal with the play under discussion cus sion copyright by the wheeler syndicate inc |