Evening star., 1916-12-03
lnquisitive Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
/ Kindly decide this play: Man on sec
ond. the ball is hit to third baseman.
who fields bail inside the base line:
man on second goes to third, running
! in front of third baseman and at the
same time kicking the ball. Supposing
I the ball was kicked after the third
baseman had touched it and then fum-
bled. What are the rules governing
/ these cases. HENRY a. kETTNER.
, In the first place. the runner would
be out for being hit by batted ball,
and in the second case, if the runner
! Intentionally kicked the ball he would
be out for interference.
Sporting Editor Star:
/ Please state whether the Boston or
the Brooklyn team made the better
showing on their last western trip-I
mean the games played with Pitts
burgh. Chicago. Cincinnati and st.
Louis. J. F. KENNEY.
Boston made a slightly better show
ing-it won 10 and lost s: Brooklyn
won 9 and lost 6.
Sporting Editor Star:
What was the record made by the
| Cincinnati Reds in 1869?
F.. O'ROURKE.
During the seasons of 1869 and 1870
the Cincinnati Reds. independent
team, won eighty straight games be
! fore being stopped by the Atlantcs
of Brooklyn. Fifty-six of these games
were won in 1869 One of the games
F.; in 1869 was 17-to-17 tie with the
! Unions OF Lansburg.
Sporting Editor Star:
l. What wins in poker-four aces or
straight flush >, Kindly tell what
I Miske's nationality is. g. Whom did
the Giants play in their first game of
the first series last season: whom did
the Giants pitch in that game.
German parentage. 3. Anderson and
Schauer for New York. Alexander for
Phillies.
Sporting Editor Star:
T l made small bet in handbook on
horse at Laurel. Horse did not win;
one that was coupled with him did win.
mutual betting. Kindly let me know if
| win or lose. JACK FLYNN.
You win your bet.
Sporting Editor Star:
Will you please answer whether
Benny KauM or Frank Baker finished
last season with the higher batting
average? ID. Z.
You will have to wait until the
official American League averages are
issued. Benny fNduii oiiSioi -Nhlicie'i
League average was .264.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly publish the year when Law
ender pitched no-nlt game against
the Giants. IWo CHAPS
August 81 1915.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please decide this argument. Leonard
will defeat Dundee to decide. Three
papers to decide. One called it a draw,
the other win. DO ] win or drawz
As a majority of three papers 1.-TWO
of three) called it draw, it is
draw bet
! Sporting Editor Star:
Give sketch of Meldon Wolfgang of
the Chicago Americans. CHI FAN.
Meldon Wolfgang. born in 1890; first
recorded with Albany. y. Y. in 1908,
and there in 1903 until drafted by Bos
ton Nationals; released in spring to
Lowell and there in 1910 and 1911 until
sold to the st. Louis Americans; return
: ed to Lowell next spring and that fall
drafted by Chicago Americans; releas-
ed next spring to Denver and recalled
in fall by Chicago; with Chicago 1914.
1915 and 1916.
Sporting Editor Star:
| Give sketch of Pitcher Pfeffer Of Brook
lyn. X. T. S
Edward Pfeffer, born in Seymour. ILL.,,
in 1889; began as professional with
Fort Wayne in 1910; drafted by the St |
La Crosse, recalled and played with !
oFrt Wayne in 1910: drafted by the st. |
Louis Americans in fall. returned to |
Fort Wayne in winter and played 1911 |
season with Fort Wawne; drafted by |
Denver for 1912, released by Denver |
to Grand Rapids late in season of 1872:
with Grand Rapids in 1913. and sold to |
Brooklyn in fall of 1913, where he has |
since played.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly inform me how many rounds
the Nelson -Wolgast fight went and
where il was fought. JNO.
Forty rounds. Port Richmond, Cal, |
February %, 1910.
Sporting Editor Star
Kindly let me know the age of John
l.. Sullivan. G. p. !
John Lawrence Sullivan was born in
Boston. Mass, on October Is, 1853. He
| is Sixty-three years of age.
Sporting Editor Star
% How old is Battling Levinsky?
| t2) DO you think he is as good he
was two years ago? CY. b.
% He is twenty-five years of age. |
He was born June 10. 1891. t2) Appa
| rently
| Sporting Editor Star:
A says Walter Mohr never knocke ed
| out colored lightweight, and B says
| he has knocked out four and has got
decisions over seven. Kindly give the
f, names of all he has knocked out and
| the men he has decisions over.
JAMES SLIMON.
Sorry. but | haven't Mohr's complete
| record. Record compilers only keep
| records of topnotchers.
| Sporting Editor Star:
! A claims a mile has been made by
| automobile on a circular dirt or con-
] crete track of one mile. without any
, embankments. with flying start, in
| less than 40 seconds, claims this has
| not been done as matter of record. |
| Who wins? Plus VAGNIER
| Have no record Of an automobile
| making a mile in 40 seconds on any
| circular track. with or without banks |
| The fastest recorded one-mile circular
| track record is 461 seconds by Dis
] brow in Simplex racer at ST. Louis, !
| Mo-. August 8. 1914.
| Sporting Editor Star:
| "a In a game of hand ball A says
| that two shorts are out: b says three.
| Who is right? (2) Does Zack Wheat
| rank as one of the three best outfield-
| n