The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-22
TOPICS IN SPORTS.
President Young to Decide
Foul-Tip Strike Question.
GREAT DAY FOR TRAP SHOOTERS.
Walter Camp Says Athletics Are Over
done-''Tobey" Pope Tells a story
of the Famous Mike Kelly.

The decision OF Chief of EMPIRES Har-
~ Wright in reference 70 hase-runners
holding bases in case OF tips caught ny
the catcher within the ten-foOt line, which
was given in the Post-Intelligeucer last
Monday morning. is already causing the
discussion anticipated L Is PROBABLE that
President Young. of the National league.
will be called upon 10 give a formal de-
cision. That Mr.. wright's Interpretation
OF the rules Is not acceptable generally
Is shown by the protest of President Hart.
% the Chicago club. who insists that a
foul tip caught within the teu-foot line
is strike and nothing more E T
Pope. the weli-known local umpire. coin
cides with the opinion that Mr.. Wright
is wrong.
II do not See" said Mr.. Pope. how
you can make a foul tip this year out
OF what has been made a strike by the
new rules. In other words. what was a
foul in the past is strike now. Such
being the case. why should base-runner
In the case in question be held subject
10 rules governing the foul?''
Speaking OF queer combinations in
baseball" continued Mr.. Pope. Il have
called 10 mind the ability of that great
player, Mike Kelly. who died last winter
10 take advantage OF circumstances. 1t
was in the days when he was playing
right field for Chicago. Gore in center,
Dalrymple in left. Burns on third, Will
hanson at short. Pfeffer at second. Arson
on first Flint behind the bat and Clark
son in the box. Kelly had reached first
base and was dancing around when the
next hatsman struck an easy grounder
TO Boston's shortstop. The game was
being played, | should have said. in Bos-
ton. Well. Mike saw at once that he
could not make second, and quietly
stepped back % the first baseman, where
he stood still as a statue. When the
shortstop got the ball he looked at sec
ond, OF course expecting to see runner
coming from first. There was not a
move. He hesitated a moment and then
threw 10 first, retiring the batsman. Just
as quick as the first baseman got the
ball Kelly put his foot on the base and
commenced To laugh. The umpire stood
still with amazement, and the players
were in the same box. Finally, after
about minutes elaboration. the umpire
said he saw no way TO call Kelly out
and the game went on. I don't know any
one but Kelly who would have thought
OF such way out of difficulty"
There is a probability that the Chicago
League team Will farm out Charley Irwin
who used to be the favorite third baseman
OF the Seattle team, TO a minor league.
Chicago
writers 10 come out with articles calling
for his retention. as general utility man
at least. The Boston Herald then took
mp the matter and remarked that from
the work Irwin did In that city he was a
player made of. the right stuff" When
either Stevens or Morse OF the Herald,
write as favorable notice of young
player "a that. they know what they are
talking about.
Con Lucid. the printer who used 10
pitch for Spokane. is now playing with
Brooklyn, In the National league. lie
wants to go TO Fall River, and saws he
will play there ,or s225 month If he can
get his release. Lucid must have i'm
proved.
The New York Telegram says that
Walter Camp. known rs the father OF
football. has come to the conclusion that
athletics are overdone. In a recent lee
ture at New Haven he said: college
athletics are being exaggerated. In the
last two years the pace has been so ac-
CELEBRATED that in another two years we
are In danger of seeing II become the
pace that kills-the pace that kills all
sport
President Eliot was right in MANY OF
his structures. But President Eliot, the
faculty. parents and the public would be
glad 20 be forestalled by action among
the atnleteS themselves. A plan started
in football. IT is believed, would be fol-
lowed in other sports when necessary.
Let the captains OF Harvard, Princeton,
University of Pennsylvania and Yale meet
and agree to dispense with summer prac-
tice and with morning practice. | don't
mean by this that no man is TO touch a
football during the summer. but that
there shall be no gathering OF men I'M
der the call OF the captain for that pur-
pose mean that there shall be no team
practice, nor practice OF signals until
afternoon.
IF captains and coachers were willing
TO Let up on the men to that extent ~
would leave the morning free for study
and / believe the teams would be no
worse of In point Of skill and execution
No captain cares 10 do this unless his
rivals do II. too. Such a move as thar
one I suggest would be but a step. hut
once made II would lead Is others based
upon the same principle OF general agree
ment TO check excuses"
There was a large and enthusfastyc
crowd al West Seattle yesterday 10 SEQ
the seventh regular club shoot OF the
Seattle Rod and Gun Club Glass r ala
az good shooting as class A and was in
the best Of humor with itself. The best
individual work was done by Churchill
Following are the scores:
Club shoot.