The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-06
BASEBALL Gets
RID OF newark
PLAYING FIELD
Last Echo of Federal League is
Heard as Ban Johnson Set
ties Trouble.
BY JOHN Is. FOSTER.
Downright. 1922. by The ArgusO

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New York, April 6.-Ban John
son, president of the American
league, has left New. York city,
where, in cooperation with others,
the affair of the Newark baseball
ground was adjusted Organized
baseball fell heir to this property
when Harry Sinclair and the Fed
eral league patched up their differ
ences with the major leagues and
sent the Federal to join other
leagues which had preceded it. AS
a matter of fact, Mr.. Sinclair did
most of the patching up. His share
in the Federal sleaIue was pretty
well taken care of. 1t looked as If
some huge sums were paid by him,
but in reality the public paid the
bill, as it always has paid when
leagues fall out. 1t is true there
have been great losses in baseball,
but the true story of the profits for
certain individuals has yet to be
told It's some sum.
Mr.. Johnson, who is conducting
the affairs of his league pretty
smoothly, in spite of all the opposi-
ton which he has .hadsfrom time to
time, is glad that the Newark ball
gro-nd is no longer bothering the
major leagues, and he wouldn't try
to pick a winner in his league even
if tempted with diamonds. He says
there are some pretty good clubs
in his circuit this year and he will
find them sentiments" heartily
endorsed.
New Jumps Misses.
Mr. Sentell, who is a new umpire
breaking in for the National league,
seems to have stubbed his toe re-
gaTding the scoring of run on
double play. There are many who
think that run cannot be scored
if a double play is made. but that
is not right If the double play
finishes with an out at first on a
batter running to first base, run
can not score; but if a double play
is made where the third out is not
forced out or declared out before
the runner arrives at third base,
there is always a chance for a run
ner on third base to beat the ball
happens to be a caught fly ball.
That is not taken into considera-
ton in many games which are
played throughout the country, and
SentelI seems to have fallen heir
to a notion long held in the south
that no run can be scored on a
double play. Where they got that
idea no one has been able to ascer-
tain, yet some years ago they
wouldn't believe in the far south
that any run was legal if it cross
ed the plate during the process of
a double plaE.
Make Own Rules.
In spite of the fact that there is
national code of rules and that
the rules are better spread for base |
ball than they are for most games, |
there are to this day local applica- |
tions of the rules which are in
sisted upon in local games. Down !
in Alabama once it was found that |
they were playing with the old no
ton of putting a man out going to
first base if he was hit by thrown
ball, and they won ut have it any
other way. because they had been
playing that way ever since they |
had taken - baseball and they |
were sSre that their forbears
couldn't be wrong
DerriIl Pratt becomes champion |
of the Boston Americans and he is
gaining a little for the loss of the |
possible opportunity to play second |
base in the world series of 1921. |
Little fault could be found with the |
quality of second base play as he |
exemplif1ed it in 1920 There was |
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