Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-10-21 | Page 6 | Umpire's Decision Favors Cork Leg

UMPIRE'S DECISION FAVORS CORK LEG Canfiold, Colo., Oct. 21. When Albert Al-bert Billings kicked his cork log across the home plate yeStorday afternoon af-ternoon in the ninth inning the score being already a 5 to 5 tie. tho umpire called the runnor safe. Then the last baseball game of the season broke up in a row. However, Umpire Joyce Carter, consulting the rule book, declared de-clared that there was no precedent, and held to his decision. When the teams lined up for play It was found that ono team wns shy a man. Billings of the cork leg volunteered vol-unteered and the flm thing he did was to knock a two-bagger He stole third, and started home when one of his team mates hit to shortstop. Tho shortstop tossed the ball to the catcher, catch-er, ten feet ahead of the runner, tho cork leg flew off and crossed the plate whlio the owner of the leg dropped to the ground. The catcher stepped out and tagged the prono figure, but the umpire was watching closely and ruled that tho foot at the ond of the cork touched the base. The opposing team claimed that Billings was out because the catcher tagsed him before he crossed the plate.