The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-09-03
BATTERS WANT A HEAVIER
PENALTY PLACED ON WILDNESS

Is not the penalty imposed upon
pitchers for hitting batsmen altogether
too trivial? Should not these boxmen,
who already have all the best of it on
opposing batsmen, be made to suffer
more severely for their wildness, and
something more than the granting of
one base be made the consequence of
their erratic aim?
This is a question that has already
caused considerable discussion in big
league circles. The frequency with
which batsmen have been hit and the
temporary loss to some clubs in the
race through injury to valuable play
ers have already urged the managers
of the clubs in both leagues to suggest
| that some change be made in the rules
! that may have a tendency to counter
act the wildness of certain pitchers.
Many Players Injured,
Through being hit by fast pitched
balls some of the greatest batsmen
and players in the game have been
permanently disabled or slowed up in
! their work. In the old days John Bur
dock, always 300 hitter, fell away off
in his batting, and just before he re-
tired from the game was the weakest
batsman on his team. Freddie Par
ent was never again as good as before
he was hit by a pitched ball. Dannie
Hoffman was winged by Jesse Tame
hill, almost killed, and has never since
been able to face a left-handed pitcher
with any confidence. Birdie Cree OF
the Highlanders was put on the injur-
ed list for a long time through the
same cause. Lord had his finger
smashed last season and was laid off,
and few weeks ago Johnson smash
ed the Boston captains fingers with
one of his fast inshoots. Inasmuch as
this seeming wildness is something
intentional it is about time that the
pitcher be made to suffer requisite
penalty for his poor aim.
Not that the pitcher intentionally
tries to hit or cripple batsman. No
one imagines that a twirler would be
so foolish or brutal as to injure an
opponent. 1t is simply that desire to
put the fear of the Lord" into the
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many thoughtful ones against base
ball, football, etc. This, it will be
seen, is a reproduction of the condi-
tion that ended in the fall of Rome.
In her days of growth every man was
soldier; in the end a few great gla-
diators were in the arena, to be watch
ed and applauded by the millions who
personally knew nothing at all of fight
ing or heroism.'
From the same official handbook,
prepared by Mr.. Seton and Sir Robert
Baden-Powell, are given the following
facts about the organization of the
movement. Scouts, who must be be-
tween the ages of twelve and eighteen,
are listed in theree ratings, tenderfoot
or probationary, second-class, and first
class, for each of which certain def
mite practical tests have to be passed
to gain the rank and it's insignia Each
group of six or eight scouts forms a
patrol, with patrol leader and corporal.
There or more patrols form a troop
which is headed by a "scout-master, )"
usually young man older than the
lads in the troop. There are also To-
cal committees of scout-masters and
others interested in work among boys,
city and state councils, and the ma
tional president, the Chief Scout. AS
far as is possible the boys wear COM
Portable free-and-easy uniform of fan
mel shirt, short khaki trousers with
stockings turned down at the knee, a
neckercnief of the patrol colors, a
khaki haversack, all topped off with a
fiat-brimmed, khaki-color hat. Their
only weapon is light staff MIR. R.
d. Blumenfield, editor of the London
Daily Express, describes the require
ments for promotion and reward in an
Particle in The Outlook:
"The Scout never comes to the end
Of his lessons. Having climbed one
height, another height always rises
before him. Before he may wear a
first-class badge he must satisfy exa-
miners in ten matters: First, he must
be able to swim fifty yards. He must
have a shilling in the savings-bank.
He must be able to send and receive a
message. either in semaphore or
Morse, sixteen letters per minute. AS
a test in selfreliance he is sent off on
two days journey by himself, or
| with nnlY one other scout. On re.