Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-18

sent broadcast to the schools and
colleges of the country.
l. The catcher must not speak to
the batsman except to caution hin,
against danger. and in speaking to
the pitcher must not talk about the
batsn,an or any member of his team.
< No player shall shout to an op-
posing player except to warn him o.
danger.
3. There shall be no oral ooachinq
from the bench.
q. The outfield must not coach the
pitcher, the nfieId being sufficient for
that purpose.
.. The umpire will first warn
player for an infraction of the rules,
and then excluae him from the game.
3. The students of the home tear,
must not cheer in such a way as 20
rattle" the opposing team.
Bear in mind in this connection
that a similar set of rules and regd-
lations for track sports were adopted
just one year ago by the assocla ton.
and this year at the meeting the or
tlmists received a setback when they
learned that only eight members out
of the forty or fifty of the association
We're using the track rules which the
committee promulgated last year in
an effort to unity all track and fed
contests.
Will They Enforce Rules7
How many of the members will
engage umpires to enforce these
rules? 1t is almost impossible to in
tfoduce good craftsmanship by leg
lslatlon and through umpires II
must grow in the individual and
through example. Captain Blossom,
or Yale, not member of this asso-
cation, has accomplished much Gf
TINS at New Haven in a single year
or captalncy. The suggestion IF
these matters is good, however. Now
Tor the example.
Here is one from Australia:
Kirby, of the civil Service Rowing
cub, was twice fouled by Alma Cox,
of the Balmain Rowing Club due 20
the latter's poor steering in the final
heat of the senior SOULS for the Aus
tralasian championship. Cox was
disqualified, but each time Kirby re-
fused to accept victory and requested
the reroWng. The third trial Cox
won by half length,
We have some sins to answea rfor
and they have not all been corrected
yet In our sport. | think those who
follow professional baseball little
realize how some of the conduct would
be regarded If it burst upon them
suddenly for the first time as it does
upon strangers to the national game
The query raised in the collegiate as
soclaton, How TO rid baseball of its
Objectionable features" gives some
indication of what we are coming to,
but an outside opinion is very vaua-
BILE here.
Australian Knocks Spirit
An Australian paper published an
interview with one of their native
crIcketers, who had just returned
from a trip here and had watched our
game. He says: Il don't like base
ball as played in America Baseball
in Australia is a fine game, played in
the spirit of our cricket, but that
spirit is not known in American base
ball, which is "A professional game and
associated with bluffing of a charac-
ter foreign to the Australian and Eng a
fish ideas of sport. There is, of Z
course, big money In ii there, but IL
baseball is ever to become a big game
here it will need To be divorced from
the spirit which pervades its Amer
lean atmosphere"
Now we all know that more than so
per cent OF professional baseball play
ers would as individuals be glad to
play the game on true sportsman
ship basis-fair play, free field, and
the best team to win. II is also GER
tain that this element will in the end
get the upper hand, especially if the
public changes its attitude and sup
ports such a proposition. The reason
IL q 4 10
has always shown in the long run 1t
tendency to support fair play as they
see it and they are going to demand
this in baseball
II will not do to preach England
or the English to them or the princi-
pie OF Never mind who wins" be
cause they know the fallacy of such
statements. They know and read
that which shows them this mistaken
theory.
copyright by Otis F. Wood