Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
INQUISlTIvE FANS.

print in the pink sheet next Sunday. De-
eember .: 1910. the ages. weights and
Cobb Crawford, O'Leary. Bush. Jennings.
Mullen, Donovan. Works, Summers. r.
Jones. D. Jones. Stanage. Schmidt. Casey.
Moriarity. Delehanty. Mcintyre, all Of
Speaker Of Boston, and which ones are
married. \,-.
No. .. Give the homes and first names
Of the above players. and is Crawford's
name Wahoo?; CONSTANT READER.
Cobb. "a years. It's pounds. 5 feet 1919
inches. Crawford. 33. 19O 5. feet liz.
O'Leary. 81, 100. feet inches. Bush.
-. 16S. feet inches. Jennings. 30.
176. feet inches. Mullen. .. 195. 5
-, 175. feet i inch. Summers. p, 100.
feet ~: D. Jones. b. ITS. 8 feet 10
inches. T. Jones, 33, $780, 8 feet STAN
age. %. $50. 5 feet Q inches. Schmidt. Is.
1916. feet II inches. Casey. Is. 10. 5
inch. Delehanty. "a. IT'S. 5 feet 10ls
inches. Mcintyre. 81. 10, 5 feet 91nches.
Speaker. q. 100. 8 feet IL inches.
Cobb, Crawford. Mullen, Donovan. d.
Jones, T. Jones. Moriarity. Schmidt. Dele
hanty and Summers are married, and
Jennings Is to be shortly.
Cobb lives at Augusta. Ga: Crawford,
Mullen. Donovan live in Detroit: Jennings
at Scranton. Pa; Delehanty at Cleve-
land. D. Jones at Minneapolis, T. Jones
homa.
Crawford is nicknamed "Wahoo'' be-
cause he originally lived in Wahoo. Neb.
Sporting Editor Star: If fly is
knocked to an outfielder and 1t is over
his head and he throws his glove at it
and 1t hits the ball and the ball drops into
the players hands-now. is the batter
out? ] know this is an unusual occur
renee. but there is heated discussion
about this here. B. j. L.
No. The batter gets three-base hit,
and any men who were on bases score
That Is the meaning of section 6. rule "a.
which was designed to foil just such
miracles.
Sporting Editor Star: Please give the
year and the month Of the birth of Ed
ward Collins, second baseman of the
Philadelphia Athletics. and how long he
has played with that club and state
whether he ever played under any other
name.
BE. Born H., May 2 1857. Collins has been
from Columbia University. In 1906 he
played under the name Of Sullivan, but
In 1907 assumed his own name.
Sporting Editor Star: on what Cub
pitcher did Dan Murphy. the Athletics
right fielder. make 4 home run in the
third game Of the worlds series October
20 at the West Side Ball Park? E. o. H.
OF Mcintyre, in the third inning.
Sporting Editor Star: a. The pitcher.
after making a delivery to first base to
catch base runner mapping immediately
steps back on to the slab and is in po-
sition to pitch to the batter without the
ball in his possession. but waiting for
the return throw from the first base
man. Would you call it q balk? {) The
pitcher in order to make quick delivery
to the batter fails to get either of his
feet in contact with the pitchers plate
while making the delivery. Would this
constitute balk? 90 Is II necessary
that the pitcher stand with both OF his
feet In contact with the slab while In
the act Of making his delivery, or CAM
one foot be In contact with the rubber
and the other step ahead? d. A. ]. !
% Not unless he makes some motion
to pitch. See rule "a, section Z. e. Yes,
batsman. section Of the same rule.
t3) One foot must be In contact with the
slab. The other may be on the slab or
i'm front of it, but must not be back OF
1t. See rule 80
Sporting Editor Star: "a Give a brief
sketch of the life Of Charley Bennett.
CD Give the lineup of the Detroit team
O Bennett began playing professionally
with the Neshannocks in 1874 and re-
NAMED with them until 1875. when he
went TO New York and played with the
Aetnas. He was at Milwaukee in 1S71-7S
and at Worcester in 1S79-SO. From 1851
to 1855 he played with Detroit, and from |
1880 to 1893 with Boston. His legs were |
cut or by a Santa Fe passenger train at
9 CAMEL. Bennett and Briody, catch |
ers: Getzein. Conway and Baldwin. pitch |
ers: Brouthers, first base; Dunlap. sec |
ond base: White and Shindle. third base: |,
Rowe, shortstop; Twitchell and Richard |
son, left field: Hanlon,0 center field, and 1
Thompson, right field.
Sporting Editor Star: A man on first |
base. Batter hits q fast bounder or /
ground ball to the first baseman and |
the first baseman scoops it up. The man
on first does not try to run to second, /
but quickly steps back to first base. The
first baseman fields the ball cleanly. steps |
on first and retires the batter. Then he /
throws to second. Is the man on first
forced or not? H. BETCHER.
The man ceases to be forced as soon |
as the first baseman retires the batter by |
stepping on first base.
Sporting Editor Star: Kindly answer a
question for me concerning base ball. II 4
there are two men on bases. second and /
third, and the batter hits to short. the /
shortstop throws home. catching hts man.
and allowing the man to get safe at 1
hrst-kindly tell me II that Is q fielder's
choice. x. Y.
No one is retired on q fielder's choice.
Had throw to the plate been too late TO
catch the runner coming from. third tt
would have been D. delder's choice.