Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-25
NQUlSlTIVE FANS.

NQUISITI
Sporting Editor Star:
To settle an argument please publish in
the sporting sheet of Sundays Star If
| how long: also If Ray Morgan has ever
made a home run while with the Ma
tionals, J. A.
1. jackson has been married for two
years.
. Yes. One.
Sporting Editor Star:
If a pitcher named A loses the game
| in the first inning and is taken out. does
he get credit for losing game, or pitcher
b who holds opposing team scoreless?
The defeat is charged to A.
Sporting Editor Star:
| If you have the information available
kindly let me have the batting and field
| ing and stolen base records of Jack
| LeIivelt (Rochester), Tom Long (Mobile).
Moran Chattanooga. and kenworthy
| Oenver). Also kindly state the number
of games won and lost by Boehling since
going to Worcester. This in Sundays
| sporting page. SUBSCRIBER.
InSS0 averages are not dVdlidDic dt
this time.
Sporting Editor Star:
Will you kindly tell me when Bill Cum
bingham will again be in the big league?
SPORTY.
AS yet Cunningham has not been pur-
| chased. He may be drafted later.
Sporting Editor Star:
l. I would thank you to answer in
The Star whether or not man who
goes to the bat and gets his base on
balls or is hit by pitcher is charged
with a time at bat? For example.
should player get his base on balls
| twice and be hit by pitcher twice. and
each time he got on base scored a
| lows. according to the rules OF the
game?
Name of player. 10
2. In other words, is 1T possible for
| a player to score one or more runs in
| a game without being shown at bat
| in the score. l. of course, do not mean
that the player is running for some
other player or another player runs
| for him.
3. Would also thank you to advise
| whether or not a batter Is charged
with a time at bat" when he hits a
| fly to the outfield, on which a runner
scores from third after the fly is
caught?
| Your answer to this will much oblige
| A FAN.
| The batter is not charged with a
| trial at bat under any Of the circum-
stances mentioned.
| Sporting Editor Star:
Would you give me the names and
| addresses of the proper officials with
whom to make reservations for seats
| during the worlds series this fall, In
l lol Anxy yfYar
| VIII the Philadelphia Nationals be
home on Labor day and the preceding
Saturday? II so, with whom will they
play?
sporting section of next Sundays Star
| would be greatly appreciated. J. &. G.
| That will not be decided until pen
| nantS are won.
| Sporting Editor Star:
A is on third base and is coaching
on third base coaching line. Il starts to
run toward home plate while the oppos-
| ing pitcher is on the slab ready to deliver
the ball to the batsman. Opposing pitcher
does not throw the ball. and claims A is
out on account of B running toward home
along the coaching line. Umpire sustatns
pitchers claim and declares A out. Is
the decision correct?
No. The pitcher and the umpire had
the rules twisted. Sometimes the runner
on third is out when play is being made
on batted ball, IL he runs toward the
plate, but never in the case outlined.
| Batter hits to third baseman, who
makes short throw to first base. Field
umpire calls runner safe. claiming the
baseman had his foot off the base. Has
the umpire behind the bat the right to re-
verse the decision of the field umpire?
ii. g. III.
/ The umpire in chief always has the
right to reverse the field umpire's de-
cision when he is in position to know 1t
was wrong. If the field umpire is in bet
ter position to see play than the chief
umpire, the latter takes the formers de-
cision as correct In the majors They
work together. not against each other.
Sporting Editor Star:
I. With reference to balks. you advise
that sometimes a ball pitched squarely
over the base without any pause in the
1 motion is both balk and ball for tho
batter. Please cite an example. :, Sec
ton of the balk rule-With no base oc-
i cupied and the pitcher should deliver ball
TO the batter while catcher was out OF his
lines, would 1t be called ball strike.
as the case might be: and If the batter
hit the same could play be made on 1t?
i READER.
I. With a man on base the pitcher de-
keeping one foot on the slab, making AN
illegal delivery. The runner advances one
base on the balk. The ball. even If it
cut the plate, waist high. is not a strike,
but a ball >. When the umpire declares
a balk the ball is out OF pay and does
not count either way.
iSportin1 Editor Star:
| The batter had two strikes. and the next
bali that was pitched went straight over
the plate The batter purposely stepped
over the plate and got hit with the ball.
1t being his last strike, the umpire called
him out. Was he correct or not?
| BERT.
i Decision was correct
Sporting Editor Star:
A. while batting. hits fair ball. but In
doing SO breaks the bat squarely off. Is he
entitled to first base, even II helded out?
4 ED KING.
Certainly not.
sporting Editor Star:
II A ball Is knocked to the pitcher which ID
ltoo hot to field. but he knocks it down.