Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-18
Inquisitiue Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly inform me in the pink sheet
Sunday what Connie Mack's famous
100000 inf1eld cost him originally and
where each of the four players was OBJ
tanned. COPY DESK
Practically nothing. Collins was got
ten from Columbia University and
played with the Athletics season
under the name of Sullivan before he
finished school. Baker was obtained
from Reading of the old Tri-state
League for the loan of Outfielder
Shaughnessy for half the season. Nc
Inniss was developed by Mack, being
taken off the sand lots of Boston. Barry
went direct to the Athletics from Holy
Cross College.
Sporting Editor Star:
To decide a bet between and we
leave it to your good judgment. Kindly
answer in the Sunday Star pink sheet.
l. A claims that professional base
ball as played today is speedier and
more skillful in every department than
it thirty years ago. 2. A claims
also that the average pitcher of today
puts over a swifter ball. than the aver
age pitcher of thirty years ago. 3.
A goes further and claims that the up
to-date ball player can hit a ball hard
er than the players of thirty years ago.
A makes this latter claim judging from
the long distance hits that have been
I
or So Z takes the other side to all
questions Who, in your opinion, wins
the stake?
/. This column is not for expressions
| of opinion. However, base ball un.
! doubtedIy has progressed along all
lines within the last thirty years and
practically all critics would side with
A in most of his contentious.
Sporting Editor Star:
Pitcher delivers the ball so as to
hazel; the batter away from the home
! pIate. whereupon the catcher returns
ball TO pitcher, who Immediately pitches
again to the batsman before he has
again taken his position at the bat.
Kindly inform me If this is fairly
/ delivered ball and oblige. e. e. l.
This would be a fairly delivered ball.
| Sporting Editor Star:
Please answer the following to decide
| a wager: bets on the results Of the
| game Saturday, July 10, between the
were played, and the score was 1 each.
and called on account Of rain. Was
that a game, or was one OF the games
/ played Sunday instead? FAN.
| That was not a game.
Sporting Editor Star:
| / will thank you for an answer to the
| following question in your next pink
| sheet: Saturday, July ~, A bet that
Chicago would make twice as many
| runs as Washington. The game was
| called in the sixth inning a tie on ac-
| count of rain and was played off Sun
day, the 18th. Who wins? There was no
bet on the played-off game. Yours
truly, e. M. r.
Il wins. Whether or not 1t was a
game had nothing to do with such a
bet.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly publish in your pink sheet
| under head of questions and answers
the duties of the manager and captain
of base ball team in regard to max
ing a lineup and suspensions. Doesn't
the manager prepare the lineup before
the game and remove and substitute
players during play? Aren't suspen-
sions recommended by the manager!
Can the captain suspend players
against the will of the manager?
! A MANAGER.
Il In professional base ball the manager
has entire charge of the team in every
particular.
Sporting Editor Star:
VIII you be good enough to answer
in the columns of your Sunday pink
sheet, whether 1t is in violation Of any
rule to use the underhand service In
tennis?
Players using the municipal courts