Evening star., 1916-10-01
Inquisitiive Fans.

Will you please publish in the sport
ing sheet of your Sunday paper
whether the Philadelphia American
League team has ever been in the first
division during the 1916 season? Also
please mention the date of their last
being in that position. FAN.
The Mackmen were never in the first
division at any time during the season
of 1916.
Sporting Editor Star:
To settle a dispute please publish in
your Sunday sporting sheet the fol-
lowing question: Did Horace Milan
and Turner Barber join the Nationals
at the close of the International sea-
son. A FAN.
Horace Milan and Turner Barber
have left their respective teams and
gone to their homes in Tennessee.
Sporting Editor Star:
With a man on third and man on
second, the batter hits the ball to the
infleld. Man on third starts home.
man on second starts to third. Ball is
fielded to catcher, who stands on home
plate. Man from third stops and walks
home. Man on second reaches third
before man gets home Catcher throws
to second. not touching man from
third, trying to get man who hit the
ball. Does the run count? Can the
man go back from third to second
after reaching third? J. L. G.
Certainly the run counted. Read rule
So. Any Of the runners could go back.
Sporting Editor Star:
1. The pitcher puts his foot on the
pitchers plate and takes his signal
from the catcher. with a man on first
base. He starts to deliver the ball to
the catcher and in doing SO he throws
to first base. The runner starts to steal
second and is caught between bases.
The home club claims 'balk." Umpire
is undecided. The pitcher faced the
batter and threw while he was facing
the batter. 2. Should balk be called
on pitcher when he winds up to de-
liver the ball to the batter? D. ]. W.
1. Sounds like balk. but woulG
have to see it to decide definitely. q.
It always is a balk if the pitcher de-
livers the ball without having ore of
his feet on the slab.
Sporting Editor Star:
1. Base runner cuts third base and
reaches home. While touching home he
is tagged by the catcher. but the bali
also is thrown back to third and the
out, the catcher for tagging the rum
ner or the tnird baseman for tagging
the base? 2. Is the umpire supposed
to notify the opposing player to throw
the bali back to a base SO the umpire
can call man out for cutting base
il only the umpire saw the same?
BYRON
j. The catcher made the putout, as it
third after the runner was touched at
the plate. Not having touched third.
ne could not be safe at home. .. The
umpire cannot call attention to a play
er cutting a base. but musl wait for
the tea-, in the field to claim the de-
cis:on.
Sporting Edito. Star:
Batter hits an infieId fly. The third
basenlan attempts the catch. Ball
strikes in his glovo and bounds up in
the air and then falls into the picher's
hands and he holds il. Batter in mean
time has reached first base. No other
basetwas occupied at the time. Is the
runner out on fly or safe? F. w. r.
Runner was out. A ay which Is Sc
! the pitcher. of course-before it has
touched the ground or any other OBJ
ject except another fielder. is out.
Rule So. section 2.
/ Sporting Editor Star: Will you please
publish the schedule of games of
W. ~ K. l. DELABAR.
October Z, Navy. at Annapolis; Oc-
| tober IA. Eastern College. at Washing
ton; October 81, Dartmouth. at Haver-
hill. Mass: October %. Albright, at
Washington; November Z. Fordham. at
New York: November H., West Vir-
ginia Wesleyan. at Washington: No
vember 1S, North Carolina A. and NJ
at Washington; November IS. Bucknen
| at Washington. November 80, George
Washington, at Washington.
| Sporting Editor Star:
| kindly advise me through the inquisi-
| tive fan column Of The Sunday Star the
following questions:
l. The age of Dumont, Barber, F.
| Smith, Milan,, Leonard and Howard
| Shanks; also, where the above live?
q Where will the Griffmen train next
Iseason and what time of the year do
| they begin to do SO?
| 3. The names of Johnson's, Milan's,
| Williams and Judges babies?
! HAL RILEY.
| l. Dumont is twenty-five; Barber,
| tventy-one; E. Smith, twenty-three; MI
Ian. thirty-one: Leonard. twenty; How
ard Shanis, twenty-five. Dunont. Min
heapolis; Barber, jackson, Tenn; Mi