Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04
INQUISITIVE FANS.

Sporting Editor Star:
Please answer In pink sheet: Are
caught? FAN.
Yes. All fouls are strikes until there
are two strikes on the batter. then
foul tip would have TO be caught be-
fore 1t would be a strike.
Sporting Editor Star:
Will you kindly answer the follow
ing questions in your Sunday paper:
If a minor league player is bought Dy
a major league club and is later re-
turned to that league. subject to re-
call, what salary does he receive? The
salary first paid him by the minor
league, or does the major league CLUB
have to pay him anything? A FAN.
AS a rule the minor league club
pays the salary ii did formerly and
the major league club the difference
This. however, is not compulsory.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly give me the fielding average
Of Pat Diver of the Twining Athletic
Club. CD Whom is @. Browne, late
and what is his batting average?
Yours. READER
Cd Averages.of player not available
at this time. CD Browne Is playing
with Newark in the Eastern League.
Sporting Editor 6nzS
/. The batter hits khe bail to the third
baseman, who makes q perfect throw to
first base, but the first baseman drops
the ball and the batter is safe. Does the
third baseman get an assist on that play.
although there is no put-out? 2. A is on
| first b hunts the ball down to the third
baseman, who throws 1t to second. but
A beats the ball and is safe on second.
Does b get hit or Is that nelder 8
choice? w. +. +.
l. Certainly. The second paragraph of
section Z, rule So. expressly says so. 2.
II is not base hit, but a rifice hit,
provided there were less than two out.
Sporting Editor Star:
With two men out and a man on third
base the. squeeze play Is started. but the
catcher pushes the batsman out OF the
way and touches the runner out as he
FAN.
Yes. and the batsman goes to first base
for interference.
Sporting Editor Star:
/. Is a beat-out bunt credited a. Q hit 2
2. Did the Sox ever play the Felix Colts?
3. With what teams arc Dummy and
Jack Taylor? 4. Who was Mighty Ca
sey and with what team did he play?
/. Yes, unless somebody makes IN error
on it. 9 No records are kept Of exhibi-
ton games. g. Dummy Is with Buffalo
and Jack has been lost track Of. 4.
Mighty Casey that's al; and he played
not disclosed in the poem.
Sporting Editor Star:
A is on third and b on second and one
and is trapped half way between third
and home. While he Is lodging back
and forth the catcher whips the ball to
the third baseman. who touches B while
t. htrd
the ball home In time to catch A. Is
this a double ply or did B have a right
tentatively to third base? d. F.
A was the only man out. having a
right TO third unless that base was re-
claimed by A.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please give an instance Of how a base
runner may be put out under section IA
OF rule So. T. M A.
IL a base runner Is on second when
time is called and takes his stand on
third base when play is resumed he may
be declared out IL the ruse is discovered
before ball is delivered to the batsman
Sporting Editor Star:
IL the first baseman drops a pop-up foul
ana the batter thereafter makes a safe
hit or reaches first base, does the first
baseman get an error? J. F. r.
Yes. whether or not tho batsman
reaches first.
Sporting Editor Star:
The bases are full and one out. The
batter hits a pop fly which the umpire
calls an ENFIELD fly" The shortstop
catches II on the fly and pegs to first
with the runner from first to second ten
feet off the base The first baseman does
no. tag the runner. but claims the out
and the umpire decides the runner from
first TO second Is not out: is he right !?
Would IL have made any difference IL the
umpire had not called enfield fly?
II. NJ c.
The umpire was wrong and the runner
at first was out under section 10 of rule
% The infield fly made no difference in
the decision.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly advise me why. on the preceding
eastern trip which the teams In the Amer
lean League took. the Detroit and Wash
ington clubs played at Detroit instead OF
Washington. M &
SO that, on the succeeding western trip
which the teams OF the American League
took. the Detroit and Washington "clubs"
could play In Washington instead of De-
troit. to avoid conflicting with some horse
races.
Courtney Improving.
ITHACA, N. Y. September 3.-Charles