Show I II RULES ARE RULES i So Said Visiting Manager When Home T Team earn Leader Pulled Humorous Technical Bone It B By BILLY EVANS EANS It J you were a big league um- um umpire urn pire and a a manager gave gase vou OU the name of o a pitch pitcher to start the game who was about 2000 miles ay anay from the scene of ot action what would you do Tue rules state that when II a manager gh gives es the umpire the tho name of a pitcher to start a agamo game gamo said hald pitcher mu must pitch until one batter eitner has hall been retired or reaches first base In safety Then the manager can J shift If It he so desh desh's s 's I So that It wont won't be bo embarrass embarrassing f ing no names will wilt be mentioned n other than to say that the he game was played In the tho AmerIcan league Now Jow Tow do your guessing The home manager had a left left- left left-hander hander bander and right right-hander warming UP prior to tho game Hens He was ns Un- Un Undecided un undecided decided a as to who ho he ho would start startOn startOn On the club up until three or tour four dais s prior to the game In question was a promising v ter who had ileen een In relief role roles He had been shipped to a 11 club In the American Am a II for tor more ex- ex experience ex experience In giving the name of ot the pitcher to the umpire the home manager undecided a ag t to whether homeI I he would use uso a left left-hander or hander right right-hander unthinkingly wrote In the Iho name namo ot of the pitcher who ho I lied had been boen shipped fo to the INot I 1 Not until a fe few minutes before game time did the homo team manager discover his mistake Hurriedly he ho tried to adjust mat tors matters but the visiting manager possessing poss a a 0 sense of ot humor and temporarily desiring to make things arlly unpleasant Insisted that the rules theman be lived up to that the man announced to pitch do MJ ti until at least one man was Se Ie tired tired le-tired or reached first The Tho start of ot the game was de laed at least the fise minutes b b what seemed a heated at the plate which however ever a was camouflage on the part ot ot of th the manager Of Ot Course it was las ls merely a sUp slip ot of the tho tongue hilt bm It produced a queer situa lion |