Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05

sporting Editor Star:
kindly advise through the columns of
your pink sheet how many innings Bill
Donovan has pitched this year, giving
places and dates. ANOTHER FAN.
Donovan has pitched in seven games
this season and forty-eight innings,
against what teams is not available.
Sporting Editor Star:
Would you kindly publish in Sunday
pink sheet in which city and what year
a dla y Cobb assault spectator a:a = in
In New York, 1913.
Sporting Editor Star:
l. Kindly give me the whereabouts of
the following piayers-Heinie Wagner,
Tex: Dawson. pitcher who was given
trial with Washington. 3. Paddy
tsn9t former second base for De
1. Wagner is still with Boston. 2. No
line on Dawson. 3. Paddy Bauman
week.
Sporting Editor Star:
Will you kindly place in your inquiry
column OF Sundays pink sheet the seat
Ing capacity Of the Washington Ball
Park, also the average attendance to
the games? T.L.B
ton park is 1850. The club does not
make public its attendance figures.
Sporting Editor Star:
To decide bet will you please
days pink sheet:
Did Joe Jackson. whom Cleveland sold
TO Chicago, bat as pinch hitter for
Chicago against Boston last Friday?
Was 1t not in the double header against
the Yankees that he first played in a
White Sox uniform? READER.
Jackson broke into the double head.
er against the Yankees.
Sporting Editor Star:
The score being to in the last half
Of the ninth inning with two men ON
bases and two out. the batter hits
Legal home run. What is the fanal
Would the total score be seven runs?
c. H. WELTY.
A. The final score was to 2, and the
b0tsman got credit for only a single
OF double, according to whether the
base. The total score of both teams
was five.
Sporting Editor Star:
A says that a pitcher can be taken
out and put in to play another position
and then later on in the game can be
put in to pitch again. B says no. Does
the rule stand with any" Of the big
A. A is right according to the major
league rules.
Sporting Editor Star:
There is no one out. runners on first
and third. Batter hits high fly about
six feet in front of home plate Catcher
misses the ball and it rolls away. Man
On first goes to second and batter goes
to first. The other side claims bat
ter was out on infeld fly. The umpire
says that first and second must be oc-
cupied and called no one out. Was he
right? CD There is no one out and
base runner on first. The catcher drops
the third stripe on the batter Is the
batter out? B. L. BRACE.
A. % Umpire was right See rule
81, section S. 90 Yes. See same rule,
section 3.
Sporting Editor Star:
Base runners on second and third, two
out. one strike on the batter. Imme-
diately after the ball is returned to the
pitcher by the catcher and the~pitcher
has his foot on the slab the coacher on
third dashes for home. Pitcher, think
ing it Is the base runner. hurriedly
throws the ball wide of the plate. UNI
pire allowed runner to remain ON third
and called a ball on the batter. Was
this ruling correct? L. H.
A. Ruling was correct.
Sporting Editor Star:
A ID on second, b on thIrd. Batter
hits ball to fnfeld. b starts for home
and A runs up and stands on third. Ball
is thrown home and B Is driven back
toward third. While is still between
third and home, A (standing on third
Is touched with the ball in the hands
Of the third baseman. Is A out?
r. e. WILSON
A. Not out.
Sporting Editor Star:
Will you publish In pink sheet next
Sunday the salary per year OF iris
| Speaker of the Boston Red Sox?
e. N FOX
The Boston club has never announced
what 1t Is paying Speaker. but rumor
| has 1t that 1t Is $4,000 per season.
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