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Show ' RABBIT PUTS ARBITER J J IN BAD WITH PLAYERS J During a baseball game in the , ', Norwood (O.) Industrial, league, J ' a rabbit caused much hilarity t J and a new basaball ruling that J ' must stand as a precedent. t ' In the eighth inning of a hard J J contest between an adding ma- t chine company's team and a , J sash and door company's club t t the rabbit jumped out from be- , J neath the grand stand and start- J ed hippity-hop across the dia- t J mond. The players of the sash and door club who were in the , J field with a wild cry started In J t pursuit of Br'er rabbit. t J During all the excitement, a J ' baserunner for the opposing , ' team hoofed it for home and J ' scored. A tempestuous scene t followed. The sash and door J ' club claimed that time should f ' have been called by tbe umpire. J ' Arbiter Cooker ruled thus: "It I f Is the umpire's sole right to call , time in any game. The players J I had no right to chase the rab- , '. bit unless said chase was sane- J f tioned by the umpire. The run , J counts." . " v |