Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-14
mad Way TO SCORE
Base Ball Needs Amending in
Interest of Sanity.
VIEWS OF LETTER WRITER
Tells Mayor Of Washington Of Fans
Made Crazy Because Each Base
Is Not Counted a Run.
VIEWS OF LETTER WRITER

On this day Of days with the army OF
fans marching to the base ball field,
where the diamond and its frame OF
close-cropped green outfield have been
swept and FURNISHED to- state OF de-
ucjous neatness, Commissioner Ru-
doIph has been studying over the plant
of one Louis r. Gemmet, who says that
the present system of scoring base ball
games is the cause of much insanity.
Mr. Gemmet is one of the most persist
cnt contributors to the District bulldins
mail bag. He lives in st. Louis and sends
almost monthly letter addressed to the
mayor of Washington Instead of CIV
/ ing the letters to DR.. Tindall, the clerks
I send them to Commissioner Rudolph.
Each Base Should Score One.
Perhaps Mr.. Gemmet sits in st. Louis
today biting his nails because the scorers
/ persist in waiting until man gallops
home before accrediting his team with
q score.
Mr. Gemmet would have a man coming
home accredited with four scores one
for each base. Why should man labor
to first. be put out on second and have
his conquest at first go diSregarded on
the final score?
That is the question Mr.. Gemmet asks
the mayor of Washington
MIR. Gemmet comes out strong with the
statement that 1--WE should have reliable
men i'm Office Figures from that, he
says we should have reliable men in the
scorers chairs. He says that by counting
each base as a score much insanity VIII
be eliminated
He says that giving a man base on
balls is double insanity" and that
wild pitching is q clear indication that
there is insanity on the team. caused
by this present method Of scoring. BE
cause" says Mr.. Gemmet. they allow
credit for base and don't count 1t"
Furthermore. says Mr.. Gemmet, the
sporting writer's cannot be relied upon
in this present system of counting
scores Inasmuch as they surely are
somewhat liable for the present wave
of insanity according to Mr.. Gemmet,
the sporting writer's should not be
paid
Insanity Is Instanced.
The last letter Mr. Gammet wrote
gives a heart-rending pen picture of
collector for a newspaper in town
where the home team heads the list.
The collector knocks at the door of a
humble home and asks for the last
years subscription.
There enSues the following converse
ton, all of which is accurately reported
by Mr.. Gammet in the hope that Com
missioner Rudolph will telephone out
to the base hall grounds and stop this
insane scoring right away:
Mrs. Jones, am collecting for my
Newspaper.
Aha" cries the wild-eyed Mrs. Jones,
who appears iucaved in corsets and car
ries a busy-looking broom, Collector
for the newspaper. ell, Sir, l wish to
inform you that my child is a lunatic
from reading your newspaper.
Base on balls is more than double in
4 me- lS
three bases and yet he gets nothing. Left
on base counts nothing. Insanity, sir, in
SANITY.
There's the door. Not one penny for
your paper Your sporting mans insane.
Go to law about it if you will, but my
'cilild'S lunatic.
And after reading SO much Commits
leioner Rudolph laid the letter aside-so
that he could go out to the game and see
some OF this insanity