The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-15
BASEBALL IN BRITAIN
Winning Team Made 172 Runs in
Two Innings

ago, with the following results:
Teams Innings LIST End Total
England &c 1O6 172
Wales 80 81 90
Game called on account of the
general WEAKNESS of the players af-
ter the second inning.)
Commenting on the attempt made
by the Welsh gang to overcome
1873 run lead in their half of the sec
ond, one of the English newspapers
said:
1.-The Welshmen never looked like
making the 134 runs needed to win
the game, but they tried hard H.
Evans, of the Grange Gasworks, and
/ Z. Seer, of the Phil Harriers, who
was captain of the team, executed the
most noble work, for they recorded
3 runs each, as the result of their
labors the side was out in 81 runs
/ AS we understand the situation.
/ Messrs. Evans and Seer messed up
the opposing pitcher to such an ex-
! tent that they were given the priv
ilege of running around the bases
! 3 times each and that divers and
sundry other of their team mates
contributed the other 81 runs that
were tailed during the final half of
the inning.
However, neither of the Welchmen
need get conceited about what they
did. A few of their English oppo-
nents went them slightly better in
the run making business. In the
first inning L. Higgins made Is runs
and J. Barron IA, while in the sec
ond inning, Higgins contributed 25
runs and Barron aided his side by
ambling around the bases twenty
times.
One of our English brethren, who
has been given the title of baseball
expert" by the editor-in-chief of the
paper in which he works, wrote an
!; article about baseball after the afore-
said game was over. If you don't
believe that this fellow is an expert
on baseball, and knows all the ins
! and outs of the said game, we sub
init evidence, the evidence being the
: article that he wrote in which he
explained the game to those who
didn't know much about it-and who
perhaps don't know much now.
Here is the article, in part:
Baseball lacks the stately digni-
lty of cricket. 1t is a strenuous and
hustling, if not a highly skillful
! game. The bat, which is no more
than three and half inches wide, is
held at right angles to the body,
chest height"
s. Then the expert goes on to de-
I scribe some of the rules of the game
and here is the description of one
rule, but it must be one concoct-
ed in England. No one seems to
know anything about it over here:
4 "A batter is allowed to miss only
one ball which the umpire passes as
a good one. On a second offense he
is ruled out"
Can anyone imagine what would
happen if some umpire tried to ''rule
out" Heinie Zimmerman after he
had taken only two swipes at the
ball?
''The greatest excitement devel.
ops" declares our English expert, >
when only two or three men remain
not out, for then hard hitting and
quick dashes to the home base be.
come a necessity
II Our expert" tosses fboquets at one
of the English players named F
Moore who made five hits for -four
each in the first inning" In other
words Mr.. Moore seems to have polk
ed out four circuit smashes.
If he did, wei go our expert
in one stanza, one farther in the bo
lquet idea. Well have a hot-houst
at Mr.. Moore. He's got it coming {.
he did really execute these five home
runs.
Continuing in his description, oul
expert" assures the popuIace that;
Smart fielding and accurate re
turns to the various basemen are i'm
portant features but as the ball j!
nearly always in the air the neces
sity for a we'll out and rolled field
does not arise"
Judging from the number of run!
made, it would he safe to assume
that 1.-The ball was nearly always il
the air. and, no doubt when las
fence, in case they used fences il
that game.
AN attractive feature of The
game we are told'is that there i:
no waste OF time, as each batsmar
makes his stroke and reaches frs