The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-07-28
BOARD UPH0LDS
UMP|RF'S ruling
Declares Arbiter Was Right
When He Called Kinney Out
for Batting Out of Turn.
SERIES FOR PENNANT

After several hours discussion, dur.
Ing which time every angle Of the pro-
tested Bureau-Comerce game was thor.
oughly threshed out. the board Of arbi-
tration of the amateur commission sus-
tanned the decision of the umpire at a
meeting last night in the office Of Presi-
dent Robert II. Young.
The board is composed of Clark Grit
fifth, manager of the Washington Ameri-
can League baseball team; Robert H.
Young, president of the Amateur Com
mission, and S. Edward Beach, formerly
president of the Capital City League.
Their ruling was as follows: "In the
matter Of the protest of the Bureau Club
on the game with Commerce of July q,
the board. after careful consideration, is
of the opinion that Player Kinney, who
was substituted for the regular bats
man, was not a legal batsman under rule
Is. and that the action taken by the UNI
pire at the time in declaring the regu-
lar batsman out and returning the base
runner to his original position was cor
rect under rule 51.''
The protest resulted from an incident
In the game of July q. At the begin
ming of the ninth inning, with Commerce
at bat. one down and a man on first
Kinney was substituted as a pinch hit
ter for Waltenberg by Manager Collins
OF the Commerce outfit. Mr., Collins erred
in that he failed to notify the umpire
of the change. and the batsman made A
clean base hit. The minute he crossed
the initial corner Capt. Limeric, of the
Bureau nine. called this fact to the at
tention of Umpire Shurtleff, and he
promptly called the batter out The
next batter famed retiring the side.
Immediately after the game Manager
Collins, Of the Commerce team entered
a protest on the ground that Umpire
Shurt,eff's decision was wrong The
matter was then placed before the Off
Gals of the Government League. and
they sustained Collins protest and or
dered the game played over. This was
done. but with the understanding that
the case would be appealed to the Anna
teur Commission. The game was played
as ordered and Commerce emerged the
winner after ten innings Of exciting ball.
Immediately after the game the matter
was taken up with the Amateur Com
mission. in session at Spalding's Sport
ing Goods Store, and the commission de-
cided to hold the case over until the fol-
lowing evening. when the board of arbi-
tratfon would be able to get together.
At this meeting, after which every
phase of the case was carefully gone into
by the managers Of the two contending
teams and officials of the Government
League. the board having heard both
sides of the argument. went behind
closed doors. where they argued the
points of the case out between them
selves, and reached the conclusion that
Umpire Shurtleffs decision was correct
and decided in accordance with the rul-
ing of John Heydler, secretary of the
National Commission. in which he held
that the batsman should be declared out
for batting out of turn.
President Dean, of the Government
League. has issued instructions to Man
ager Williams, of the Bureau team, and
Manager Baylis, of the Marines. to get
their respective teams together tomor-
row to start series of five games to de-
eide the pennant winners Of the league.