The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-07
Moore Get. Fifteen Days Pay.

Moore Gets Fifteen Days Fay. Fred Moors who got into trouble in Birmingham last year, when he. with the others wenf on a strike on Dad Vaughn, has been given fifteen days . pay by the National Commission. The decision in full Is as follows:
 Tn re. claim of Player Moore against | Birmingham Club. The attention of the Confusion was called to this case ny the player himself, He I contends der suspension on August 15, 1908, and was not reinstated during the season. That he was rendered contract in that the manager. MT. Vaughn. wrote 1 him, stating he would let him know when to report; that he received no mo- tss of ths kns previous Ss sst to the Dr 25. 1906. he received letter stating | that he was reinstated and released. The Southern League season opened l April 10. He claims salary from April 10 to April 25. the day he was released | by the National Board. and he now comes to the Commission on appeal
 clubs. s the hUe entire entire commission viii pass ass on the case. There Is no question but that tho Birmingham Club had the right to sus- , they rendered him a new contract how ever, this suspension was lifted They certainly could not have carried the
 
 indefinite period without pay. We find that the rlayers claim should be all lowed, that is to say, he is entitled to ! lime the season opened in the Southern | League in 1906, until the time he was notified of his release.
 Aug. Hermann.
 Harry c. Pullman.
 Nationai Commission
 when Is . Base faunners
 When Is base runner not Q base FunnerT' asks The New York Globe. That is the meat of an argument which went the rounds last summer, | fall when the umpires and other ex- perts an the rules gathered to witness 1 the worlds championship games.
 The Globe has received number of communications in which knotty ! points in the baseball rules are in- | volved, and in most cases they deal runners The Globes recent criticism | of the lax methods of scoring on the two big league circuits has also aroused commept nnmberisss instances st,. S1; Rosi shoald wSS oSsrhsa asfe some A' of tSs raies
 which do not cover plays & ", which a3,,o, 9ei ,s;
 scorers. should be required to conform
 more closely to the rules:
 The play which which caused discussion on 1 came up in Pittsburg last summer. l Bill Danlen ran from first to second ! on a slow grounder to center. Ritchey Ing to force Dahlen. The runner beat the ball. but just as he set foot on
 the bag the ball struck him on the l pire Johnstone called Dahlen safe, talk | ing the common senS1 view that a | base runner standing on base could | not be declared out unless he deliber- ately allowed the ball to hit him. Barney Dreyfuss said he would nave | protested the game, but as Ptttsburg
 flicting views ot this play are enter | tained by competent judges. Jack Sher-
 Idan and Bill Evans, the American
 League umpires' agreed with with John
 ner Is immune when occuping a
 base. The rules decAate a base runner
 out vixen he Is hit by batted ball.
 Then the question arises as to whetn- l CT a man on the base Is strictly base
 runner except when he Is Tn motion
 between bases or not occupying 8
 would have called Dahlen out. This
 is not a frequent play. but 1t should
 be covered by a specific rule
 | Whether a batsman becomes a base
 runner--ts consldered lon the base"-- l at the time he hits the ball or until
 he reaches first base, is another moot. last summer when umpires Evans and
 Connolly decided that player must | reach first base 10 become base; run
 ner. They held that a batter wao s is
 at tirst does not become base runner; l Such good judges as Clark Griffith and
 Jimmy McAleer take another EeW' l nth clInched his al Sunient by pointing
 out Section 12 Of the e-running
 rules.
 back and aits you, you're out, de- ciared Griff. Doesn't that prove that | you are a base runner the moment you l hit a fair ball, whether you feach hrs'
 Common sense must be exercised by | umpires in theIr application Of rules, be explained at more length in the l rules and proadened to cover these un- 1 usual plays. Not q season passes but
 what som freak play puzzies puzzles bn stndenss aits .i covered ne in Cincinnati two years ago that was never settled to his sat-
 Bresnahan was catching, and let a
 third strike get away from him. The
 batter reached first and the Cincinnati scorers gave Bresnahan an error and a
 passed ball. Bresnahan took the ground that he could not be charged
 with two errors on one play. passed
 ball is a battery error. and Bresnahan
 took the ground that he should not
 get an error in his catching record @ ana one in his fielding record as well. The old rules put such plays In the rules as missed third strikes
 There are many other places where
 the rules overlap, and somewhere they do not reach far enough. If the re- formers lay down some rules leaving less to a scorers discretion than Is now the case, and the rule makers cover q few more points of play in their aitera' tions from year to year, dope and averages would count for something. Sir ChenE Knows the Ganhe.
 Here is one of Bozeman Buiger'!
 yarns from The New York Evenlnt During one of the games between the EIighlandeis and the Senators at Wash ington, Sir Chentung Liang Cheng. thu NJ Chinese Ambassador. and his suite wert interested spectators. A delegate to convention of the Daughters Of tht American Revolution sat near by ant continually eyed the Ambassador,
 T can't see what he fixes about It. she observed, "but l suppose he jus comes out as a matter of form"-- The daughter about that time got !
 jar that shook the whole generation Sir Chcng cs.lmIy reached into ht
 blouse and pulled out score booK
 Beginning to mark with a gold-tippe' ! nencfi he said There Is some ques tjon about that. It looked very muci ike a. rotten error, but as Jimmy ha
 heen uoppfng them up pretty pad 9