Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-11-21
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The second days session OF the National
Il ,so Ball League was held in New lorkon
Thursday, at the Fifth Avenue hotel. The
league adjourned Thursday evening until
next March. The league couphmented
their secretary by choosing him as the
successor of President Mills, who was
obliged to decline n re election Tor business
reasons. Tue offices of president aud SEQ
retary were cons plidat5d aud Mt Young
will discharge the duties Oi both positicns,
He is also made custodian OF the league
funds. Tho new board ol d,rectnrs includes
Messrs. YousV (ohairman tr cMcio), Day,
II zach, Clinton aud the delegate from
Detroit to the March mceti Z. The new
committees are Messrs. Sodrn, Day and
Spsulding on printing, aud the same gen
tlemen ON schedule. The schedule COM
| mittee will meet in New York early IN
March next ]. l.. Rogers was appointed
league member of the arbitration commit
tee ia the place OF Mills, resigned.
The discussion of the rules occupied the
convention after the election. Section :
of rule 3 was changed 50 as to substitute
hard white rubber as the material for the
home base in the place OF white marble.
! Rule was amended So as to require two
benches 10 place of one Tor the players
Rule 10 was changed so rs to give the
| balsmau greater freedl.l OF management
| in batting, his position being enlarged
from width of three foot To tour feet siS
| inches, the line nearest the home base tC
be not more than SIX inches distant from
tie corner OF the base. Rule IA ws'
changed so rs to allow the handle Of th'
bat 10 be wound round with tsiue eighteer
IL ohCs from the handle end. The batsman
tno Ia permitted to make a Hat face to th'
bat on one side of it tO the depth of hal
au inch. The amendment to rule 20
section 1, was an important one, as IL puts
stop 70 the violation Oi the rule agains
baking iuduiged in last season. The nev
rule reads {:
4 balk is made Whenever the pitche
when about to deliver the ball to the bat
while standing within the lines of his posi-
tiun makes one of the series Of motions h
habitually makes in 80 delivering tue ba
and thpu fails to deliver the ball to til
bat.
, The most important change made in tn
rales was that governing the pitchers posi-
, tion. The new rule defining the deliver
of fair ball is:
, A fair ball isa ball delivered by tn
pitcher while standing wholly within tn
lines of his position aud with both fee
| tOuChlnE thH GROUND Wh'ie bnakluH auy on
. of th, series OF motions he is accustome
to make in delivering the ball to the bat.
THIS will do away with all of the for
ward steps usually made by swi
pitchers, by which they step in front d
the liue of their position. Il will not atfet
the strategic pitchers ate all, but it is
:, serious detriment to the swift overhan
throwers, like Whitney and others. A
, amendment to rule 65. reforming the sp
eal ground rulss, put stop to home ru
|, made on balls hit over fences of mall eI
4 closures, as only tTo bases are to
allowed in future for any IA
. ball hit over fence distar
= from the home plate less than tw
i hundred and ten feet. The scoring rub
"a were reworded so rs 10 exclude from IL
y error column in the score all errors o;
- cept those known as fielding errors leavir
a to the summary all errors known uud
the head Of "battery" errors, such
y, passed, called or wild pitched balls. Tt
{ Spalding ball is sill 10 ba the regulatiC
q BAH OF the Ioagus and John B. Sage,
"a Buffalo, is 10 be printer of all the lese'
,s show bills aud scoring cards. The rul
70 governing umpiring were left IN the han
nj President Young