Show NEW RULE IN NATIONAL IS BIG BlO SUCCESS Rosin Bag Idea Goes Over O With Bang In Heydler Circuit By Dr GEORGE CIT DWICK Special J of The Examiner Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press Association NEW N YORK YORI Aug Nary 7 7 Nary II a murmur ot of complaint has been heard heart all aU season against the tho rosin bag rule rulo in III the National league John A A president ot of the Iho lea league Is now speaking Even the sing th tho praises of oC the tho rosin bag rule 1 Mr Ir Heydler ller told the Ue writer Everybody in our league is 19 sat sat- with It It The umpires have havo hav not had a run run-in with a pitcher since wo we adopted the rule On the other hand band the tho Ameri Amen American American can league stands just as firmly a against the tho rosin rub rule rulo as It did at atthe the tho beginning ot or the tho season it will not riot have rosin or anything else elSo that tends to give the tho a clutch on en the tho ball other than that of oC the tho natural grip ot of o the theLand I Land f Are any more changes likely to be bo made In baseballs rules an another an- an another other year ear Mr was asked It depends upon what baseball In General thinks ks about It it I 1 have not heard beard ot or any su suggestions I dont don't suppose there ever has been beena beena a time when som something In base base- baseball baseball baseball ball rules couldn't be changed ed The Tho game ame has changed ed in detail ever since I 1 can remember but the principle ot of o hitting the ball bali to make maleo runs hasn't changed I 1 dout believe bellevo the rosin has bag rule rulo has materially affected anything In the game except peevish dispo dispo- dispositions dispositions dispositions and sly tendencies The peevish chaps growled about a slippery ball baU because they said they might bean a a man nina The chaps who are Inclined to be besly besly besly sly have havo been beaten at their own game because they have no excuse for carrying a lot ot of powdered rosin In their hip pock pock- pockets pockets ets Its when the rosin ba bag is there thereIn thereIn therein In front of ot them NO JO O CHANGES CH Is Is there any prospect that the National league will vote voto changes In or a II repeat repeal ot of the rosin bag rule No None o whatever The crops ClOpS ot of rosin In the J pin pin- pin ln- ln cries eries of ot the Carolinas therefore Is reasonably sure sum of a steady mar mar- market market market ket In 1927 so far as baseball Is concerned r It suro sure Is Do the tho pitchers seem to have been affected adversely or ta- ta fa favorably by using osin M-osin I 1 dont don't believe belle It hur hurt hurc cue of them Our pitchers may not all allbe bO be running up nigh totals ot of winnings but these cant can't be run up In the National league lecue this year b because causo the tho teams are aro so EO evenly matched Dan Ban Johnson president of ot the American lea league ue s different notI to another kind ot of tune lIo lb thinks the games cames of or his circuit are more moro exciting without ro norm ln I than aro the tho National league I games with rosin He calls atten atten- at attention ten ten- tion to the unexpected rallies which predominate more in his hi league than in the National May May- Ma Maybe Maybe be th the use non-use of ot rosin Is not responsible for that but th the American league president Is rot not In favor of oC tempting fate tate because the in his circuit are hay hay- haying hav In ing a 11 lot ot of o fun lun trying tring to catch the tho Yankees and there E seems ems to tobe tobe tobe be many persons Interested In the i pursuit I Thero There may have Ia e been no great I changes affected In baseball by bythe bythe bythe the rosin l has bag ag rule yet et there are arc some who have hase it that the Nation Nation- National al league pitchers have havo become standardized by bythe the tho common use uso ot of rosin whereas tI- tI tIAm tr Am league pitchers are ao 1 l individualized alired Not a pitcher in the tho Na- Na National National Na National league Is working worl like the thc stars ot of o the tho Cleveland and the New York clubs When an American league pitcher with baro bare hands Is Is good goodbe goodhe goodhe he be Is 13 better seemingly than a a good pitcher of the tho National league with his hands stuck up with rosin That's about all to ho bo gathered on this rosin bag Jaap rule which some thought would turn baseball top topsy CIL The rule rulO ot or giving s batters sac sacrifice sac sac- sacrifice hits for tor flies files that advance men on bases other than from tron third base i Is one ono ot of the best changes made according to Pres Pres- PresIdent Pres- Pres President President ident Heydler Where said he heare are tho those e high batting averages that were ere to bo be made because this rule rulo was adopted Wo We got a ft batter in our lell league who plays baseball every day Tho early opponents of o the tho new now sac sac- sacrifice sac sacrifice rule predicted we would have eight nine nino or ten bat bat- batters battens bat batters tens I 1 say it Is just as fair for tor tora fora fora a batter under certain conditions to belt the tho ball wiLl all his might as it Is to bunt It It ot of a runner con can c n bo be advanced The Tho American A league Isn't kicking about the sacrifice rule Not that anybody has heard The Tho American league thinks s it has bet bet- better bet better ter batters than the National league It boasts and It has a aright aright right to boast Not every base base- baseball baseball baseball ball league ea can an turn up a Ruth Cobb a Hellmann a II Fothergill a 11 a Falk Jalk a II Goslin a II nIce nicea a 11 Gehrig a Simmons Simmons-go Simmons go down tho line Its It's some line |