Show Drastic Changes In Baseball Code Favored PLAYERS MA MAY Y ASK TO HA HAVE V NEW ROLE RULE MAD MADE Discarding of Records In Four Inning Games Protested By BILLY EVANS S HE Is a 1 base ban bis hit so r rd c d dIn TV In fn the bettIng batting a R erl s all alI laHrs a a Il rule ru rill do not ad- ad adoc ad adv oc te many u tn In the pla- pla v Ing in rules rulf's ruIe e Ba-e B ae e ht hlf h however are to e fry ery e y diamond A 4 As 1 i t result ruIt a majority of ot th the big le u pla er f a 11 In In a x certain rule that has ha a I dIrect bearing on the merry old bee bate hit lor l'or t ample f ampIe It I two to play four Cour Our Inn Inning ng- ng end and nd the umpire I lii Is finally forced to ell call 1 the game e an due to o rain or some rome other reason all tb the hits hiti hit and nd runs rune runee runt e well ell as ac other ree records made In inthe the hc game tame are arc thrown 11 Into the th dis- dis discard discard dis discard card The only reison for such action Is based bUld on the theon theol that the COUr our pia ed do not constitute It 1 ball bail game gameOn gameOn On the other hand 1 if IC two to t 0 teams play four our and one halt Innings ed edthe the home team has made mor more runs than the other team hu has ha hamade made In tHe lH It constitutes constitute a hall hail gaos gao's and the records of oC the game stand as At made nULl FULE LACKS S CO 0 w While hue only a halt half more inning has been b en played than In Jn the game gome called at the end o of at the fourth the records stand simply because the conditions that existed at the time of oC calling the t conte-t conte t make It a complete game came Ill V cli do I recall a certain major league ball game gains In which a player hit tor for a home run In the first In- In Inning In Inning ning with Ith a couple on the th b s sHe He followed It up with th another homer In the third Inning The game gme was I as called ca at the th end of ot the fourth making the affair no con contest con con- test teat and eliminating all alt the rec records rec- rec records records mane during durin the c game mc mcI I still can hear th the tho player who lost the two home horn runs raving like mad and I hale hav Tie er blamed hint him much for Cor hi h his feelings In the maWr PLAYERS FAVOR OR 0 hen hen two team tomi start a ball bAil Jame they thel seldom hau hae ha e any Idea as to whether hether or not the game came will willbe willbe be called a Occasionally a game came Is started under such auch bad conditions that It seems It will b be Impossible W w u of ot weather eather conditions f work as hard and tarn earn earn- hi f Is a a game am that Is called In Inthe Inthe Inthe the third or fourth Inning as theY do In an extra Inning contest It seems seem only fair that the th work ork of oC the player as performed should stand no matter how abbreviated the contest may beAfter be beAfter After ACter all the only possible rca rca- rca eon eon that can be advanced tor for tall fall fail failure ure to put th the tho doings of at short games mes Into Inlo th the tho records Is the fact tact bet the ne ga-ne sa as played doesn't constitute a real ball beU lame game am a II as laid down by the th rules O LY o LY ARGUMENT ARGUMENT- POSSIBLE It It wasn't a ball game is la the only argument that can be b ad- ad ad advanced As A a matter of at tact fact the th per per- performance per performance of at the th Individual pIa er should not be contused confused with Ith ith the game Individual records are nota not nota nota a came gaine ame Hence Hene the tact act that the contest did not comply with the rules relative to a game gune should hu base e no bearing on the te work ot oC the player Major league leas u players player are ar almost a unit u lt In the th belief belleC that the rule In this thin particular respect should be b coan chanted ed feeling that a player should hould be credited with Ith ith elery play pity that regardless he actually performs perform regard regard- less Ius of at the termination of ot the eon con contest test cn-test test ten |