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

sent broadcast to the schools and
colleges OF the country.
!. The catcher must not speak to
the bstsman except to caution him
against danger, and in speaking to
the pitcher must not talk about the
batsman or any member Of his team.
z. No player shall shout to an op-
posing player except to warn him Of
danger.
g. There shall be no oral coaehina
from the bench.
q. he outfeld must not coach the
pitcher, the infeld being sufficient for.
that purpose.
.. The umpire will first warn
player for an infraction of the rules.
and then exclude him from tho game,
b. The students Of the home team
must not cheer in such a way as 20
rattle" the opposing team.
Bear in mind in this connection
that similar set of rules and regu-
lations for track sports were adopted
just one year ago by the association,
and this year at the meeting the OPP
timists received a setback when they
of the forty or fifty of the association
were using the track rules which the
committee promulgated last year in
an effort to unity all track and field
contests.
, viii They Enforce Rules?
How many OF the members will
| engage umpires to enforce these
| rules? 1t is almost impossible to in
troduce good craftsmanship by leg
islation and through umpires 1t
must grow in the individual ana
through example. Captain Blossom,
of Yale, not a member Of this asso-
citation, has accomplished much of
this at New Haven in a single year
of captaincy. The suggestion Of
these matters is good, however. Now
for the example.
Here is one from Australia:
Kirby, of the Civil Service Rowing
Club, was twice fouled by Alma Cox.
of the Balmain Rowing Club, due 10
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 rerowing. The third trial Cox
won by half a length!
We have some sins to answe 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
| sociation, How to rid baseball of its
Objectionable features" gives some
| indication Of what we are coming to,
| but an outside opinion Is very yalua-
| Bile here.
Australian Knocks Spirit.
An Australian paper published an
| Interview with one of their native
| cricketers. who had just returned
! from 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
lsh ideas of sport. There is, of
course, big money in it there, but it
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. 1t 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
for this is that the American public
has always shown in the long run
tendency to support fair play as they
see it and they are going to demand
this in baseball.
1t 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
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