The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-23
BASE BALL ETIQUETTE.
Code Of Rules Designed to Elevate
the National Game.

While many Of those points of rec
ognized and imperative patlor etiquette
cannot be introduced in base ball, yet
the sport offers vast field for i'm
provement. We all have noticed that
fact or will when our attention is
called to 1t.
Here is a new code of ethics which,
according to Charles Dryden, the able
and witty base ball man of the New
York Journal have been promulgated
by the National League. the object
being to elevate the game to the social
status of golf tiddlewinks and lawn
tennis, and impart that recherche
tone which has long been lacking.
Rule 1.-Field captains and thirty-thrd
degree kickers must refrain from alter
ing the natural expression of an umpires
features in the presence of the populace.
To convey an air of correct st. Louis. Mo I,
the Malta should entice said umpire into
the dressing room after the game. pull u
Of swift kicks. For authority on this
point see the case of Latham Ct al. vs..
Sheridan on Thursday; April %, 1886
Rule 2.-Alixed-ale language rejecting
on the habits and character of annual
pass-holders, who intimate by word Of
mouth that the performance of a player
is In an advanced stage of decomposition.
can be taken as conclusive evidence that
Wash. 1t Is much better to tell the critic
in placid accents that he is bughouse,
whatever that may be.
Rule 3:-Winning pitchers. unless they
wish to be branded as irredeemably Oma-
ha, Neb., should avoid grooming a bright
new ball on the slack breadths of their
bloomers before submitting it to the bats
man Such procedure Is no; a only hear hear
as well. Unlicensed endeavor to put good
men ont of the business cannot be toler-
ated. The ball at best is practically invis-
ible to some Of them, particularly the most
pronounced New York, N. Y.
Rule 4.-No league player can be too
Baltimore, Md. For instance, when bats
man with an average of .S72 lodges into
| a wild pitch or perverted inshoOt that
| loosens his Stats. he must not walk around
| in a gradually decreasing circle with his
palid face upturned to the .grandstand.
unless the game Is taking place at Will
| mington. Del. In this case he is not amen
able to the new code.
Rule 5.-White-garbed catchers or first
| basemen, II gifted with the instincts cf
| true Brooklyn. N. Y. Will abstain from
deposiiting vast quantities of distilled
| shifting the same with the furled fist Of
| the other hand. Such conduct, while no
| doubt improving the efficacy of the per.
former. Is now considered too Dubuque,
| Ia, for the big league.
Rule 6.-Another offense, unpardonably
| Upper Sandusky, o., in ITSELF is that of u
| fat-footed athlete tearing up the soil while
| sprinting several inches in advance of his
| TO declare instead II have it.' denotes
the highest Boston, Mass. attainable. This
rule should meet the approval of all
| grommar fiends.
Rule 7-When head-end collisions result
| from enraptured fielders bent on retriev.
| ing the same iiy ball, the victims should
not display the least sign Of Mobile. Ala.
nor seek to infiict further injury. The
most Washington. d. c.. course Is for the
| young men to assist each other in pluck
ing d!slocated teeth from the grass so as
| not to delay the game.
| Rule 8.-For runners to wilfully ham,
| string a baginan, or for the custodian OF
| tho bag to chip souvenirs from the faces
| Of prcgtrate base-stealers with his sharp
| shoe plates, is now regarded q utterly III
Rsso, Tex, according to the latest hand.