Show i t BILLY EVANS SOLVES BASEBALL PROBLEM V e A written expressly for this paper by the famous I 1 american 1 league umpire I 1 I 1 V N M xyr 11 1 1 ka g V anz W 4 r X 5 13 1 A 1 TRIO 1 WHO FIGURED IN PLAY 4 failure of the fansto fans to know what has actually happened on the ilie field to is very often the reason why the umpire pets gets into troubled trouble if it were bleIn some way to let the crowd know the ahe aas teason anfor for this 0 or that Wat ruling the umpire would usually escape much of the criticism that Is heaped on his moorhead poor poo head t in an adame a game at st louis between washington and st louis a play came up which caused aff the admirers of f tho the browns to say many unkind things about the umpire idi pire when asa matter of fact that official could not possibly have havel ruled otherwise helas he was unfortunate iti in having a play comeux come up that the tans fans were riot liet wise WIs e to hence they believed their favorites were getting gettine all tife the worst of the decision in the eighth i inning with st louis enjoying a lead washington goi ot men on first and third with only one out eddie poster foster a mighty good hitter in a pinch was the batter he sent asliner aliner through the box that looked like a sure single johnny Johnni lavan dashed over made a wonderful stop odthe of the hit touched second base anddrew and threw the ball to ilist first in time apparently to io double up foster in the meantime the man from third had crossed the plate with what hat was the fleeing run it there had been no double play or it if the ball had gone gone safe the home team rooters gave ilits man no attention as they figured the double play played thad ended the inning aad made therun the run void vold i but something had bad happened when fos foster ter liff hit the ball that changed the entire complexion of the play catcher catchur aam agnew working close behind me entire e bat had bad touched fosters bat just I 1 as he was about to strike at the ball possibly the slight interference in no way affected the swing but the umpire w was a forced to do things that displeased them the brown rooters what wa was as the umpire forced to do under the conditions answer to problem the play in which the catcher upped tipped the bat of the batsman just as he was a bout about to strike at the ball nar narrows roTs the play down simply to a case of interference while both players had apparently been retired neither was out touched the bat of the batsman that ahat was chevery Th the every very moment the catcher player entitled to first base that bass base being occupied the runner was entitled to adv advance anceto to second without liability to be retired naturally sance few people in the stand knew that the catcher had interfered abig a big roar result resulted a when both runners who seemed to be put out were declared safe the runner runne ro on n third who had scored was of course sent back to that base As Is usually the case the next batter foli followed owed witha with a double that decided the game copyright by the wheeler syndicate inc |