Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20
lnquisitive Fans:
Sporting Editor Star:

| Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly answer following in Sundays
! Of pitcher named Painter, who was
with the Strasburg club of the Vir-
GINA League in 1901? If SO, give
his record. .. With what teams are
DrOhan, Dent and Morley?
BOTELER-STELTZ.
1. No records of such a player: Stras-
burg was not in the Virginia League
at that time. 2. DrOhan's whereabouts
are unknown Griffith sold him to
Cleveland. which in turn turned him
over to Columbus of the American AS
ISOLATION. He refused to report and
has not been heard from. Dent is with
Atlanta and Morley with Hartford.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please answer these questions in a
game of horseshoes: 1. A throws a
ringer; throws a leaner. Who wins
and what is the count? 2. A throws
leaner; B throws one which leans on
his. but not on the peg. Who wins?
5. Does a leaner have to be over three
inches or just clearing the ground?
4. A throws a ringer, throws leaner
and throws leaner. Who wins, and
the count? w. H DAVIS.
Rules governing pitching of quoits
and horseshoes may vary according TO
the locality. The generally accepted
rules relative to the above questions
follow: 1. A makes 5: does not score.
4. "A WINS, SCOTlut5 WuAAC - 49, az -
score. 8. Must clear the ground. 4.
It is tie. just as If the rings were
equal distances from the peg.
Sporting Editor Star:
A bets that the Philadelphia Amerl-
can League team would win the world
series. Suppose that the Ph1iadelpnla
team does not win the American
ing in the worlds series. who wins the
bet? Please publish the answer in the
pink sheet of next Sundays Star.
p--' A FAN.
B wins, unless there was stipula-
ton that the bet was off If philadelphia
did not take part in the Worios series
Sporting Editor The Star:
Please answer the following inquiry
in next Sundays pink sheet: -
Runners on first. second and third with
one out, the batter hits an infield ny and
the umpire, thinking there were two outs
did not call the infield fly. The second
baseman dropped the ball and before ne
could recover it the runner on third
scored. After the umpire made inquiry
of the scorer and discovered that only
one man was out at the time barter nis
the ball, he ordered the runner who had
scored to return to third pase. was the
umpire correct? r. Nd. ".
The umpire was not right. The
runner had a perfect right to score even
though the umpire had called an lnneio
fly Had an infield fly been called the
batter would have been out, but that
would not have affected the scoring of
run.
Sporting Editor The Star:
Will you kindly answer the following
in your Sunday pink sheet:
Was not Neal Ball sent to a minor
league team some time during the past
three years, and later recalled by the
Cleveland team? If SO, at what time and
to what league? Very truly, g. W. f.
Rail- was sent to Portland, but
he refused to report. He was taken
back, after which he was sent 10 Bos-
ton.
Sporting Editor The Star;
Please state in Sundays pink sheet the
number of games won by Sasnion anu
the number lost during the season OF
1912. boU-
Won II and lost 6.
Sporting Editor The Star:
To decide q wager will you kindly an
swer the following question IN tns p iin
sheet: Was Houck of Philadelphia
knocked out of the box in the nrst or
last games in the last series between
Washington and Philadelphia. ana IL
SO. in which one? TAN.
Houck was not knocked out OF
the box. He was removed from the last
game because of witness
Sporting Editor Star:
Will you please give the answer TO the
following: Score tie. to 4. A Cleveland
pitcher walks batsman and is then taken
out and new pitcher substituted; Inc
man who had walked scores and wins
the game. 5 to 4. Which pitcher is
e'''- E. G. RAINEY.
According to the rule made this season
by Ban johnson. the pitcher VINO walked
the man would be charged with the de-
feat. Many scorers, though. are charg-
Ing such defeats against the second
pitcher
Sporting Editor Star:
VIII You kindly explain the following
in vnur mink sheet of next Sunday:
State fully the meaning OF a bingie.
What is Texas Lacquer? NJ b. n.
bingle is simply a hit. although
the term is seldom applied to anything
other than single T Iess oy Ysasa tse
infielders' heads. which counts for a
single without being hit hard.