Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1926, Page 53

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15 1926. SPORTS: 53 Base Ball Rule to Curb Intentional Pass Would Only Increase Umpires’ Woes the play L'Y'{ His decisions are made post facto on nd drop-| what he sees actually to have taken g place, and not on what he thinks should have taken place. the winning run, and, with a man on| have I, on my judgment, to put a| out on the field, every man, and want | pass, even when it appears to be in-| is a caught fly ball becaus second and another on third after | game in that plight? to know what I mean by deciding that | tentional, because no umpire has a| intended to catch the I man on third scores because a fool rule of two bases forces him home. What had I better do after making| this base on balls, as likely as not the| *“On the other hand, suppose I don’t| the probable winning run cannot cross | right to play the game. If the um h of an o the decision, run under the stand or | pitcher in desperation and vexation | think that it is an intentional pass.| the plate. pire is to be permitted to judge of been opposed to e to the fence. will groove another and two more| What will the New York teamn do if “No umpire has any right to say | the motives and intentions of players, | islation in regard to a base and so have other men who realize chances are that it will be! runs will come home. What right' it happens to be the club at bat—rush | that a pitcher gives an intentional! why can’t he say that a muffed fly ball ' any kind on the part of the umpire.' that there must be no presumption of - MOTIVE OFPTCHER = Officials Must Consider Act- ual Happenings, 0’'Day Declares. BY JOHN B. FOSTER. NEW YORK, October 15.—Hank ©O'Day, the oldest umpire in base ball, happened to be doing a little meditating when the writer caught him in the midst of the soliloquy. “I wonder,” mused Hank, in his wondering way, “what some of the base ball fans have in ther craniums when they want umpires to decide upon intentional bases on balls and why they also wish the batter to be given two bases when an inten- tional pass is decided as having been given. “Suppose this to be the case” Hank went on. “Take the world series as an instance. Presume it had happened there were two out and runners for the New York team on third hage and second' base, with the score tled in the ninth inning. Ruth is at bat. The pitcher works him for all the cunning he possesses. “He shoots one ball after another 85 close to the plate as he dare shoot them to make Ruth swing at & bad one. The count runs to one strike and three balls. The pitcher, despair- ing of getting Ruth to bat at the ball, throws the fourth one wide because he doesn’t wish to groove the ball. 1 rule that it is an intentional base on balls, although I know how hard the pitcher was trying to get the batter. “Ruth is sent to second base. The STEVINSON FAVORED TO REPEAT AT GOLF Miller B. Stevinson was a favorite | today to annex the golf championship of the Columbia Country Club as the | second and third rounds of the match play event were being played. Stevinson, who won the title last vear, led a field of nearly 130 golfers in the qualifying round of the cham- pionship vesterday, and went through his first match round with flying col- ors, defeating. Martin R. West by 3 and 1. The champion had a card of 74 in the medal round, 4 shots over par. The match play round in the| champlonship flight was the only one played der that a 36-hole final may be played tomorrow. A surprise of the first round was the easy defeat of Albert R. MacKen- zle, former club and Middle Atlantic | champlon, by H. E. Doyle. The lat ter, who had qualified with a score of 93, defeated MacKenzie by 6 and 5. Hugh H. Saum was 3 down with 4 to play to John W. Brawner, but won | the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven- teenth, halved the eighteenth and | chipped dead out of a trap at the nineteenth to win the hole and the | mateh. Summaries: First and second the four flights belc ship are being play same time as the round matches in r flight. intries for the Middle Atlantic open | golf championship to be plaved at | Rolling Road next Frid - day are coming in to Charles P. Bets airman of the committee! in charge. Few en- tries have been received from Wash- ington, although practically all the Washington professionals plan to take part in the tourney as well as the Maryland open to be held on Thurs: | da Leo Diegel, the present cham Bill Mehlhorn and John Farre}l dy have entered. Other entrants | include Frank Hartig of W: n, | \ilfred Reid, former Indian Spring | pro; Dan Wil of Shackama Schrelber Master and W s Should be in Betschler's hands by | smorrow night | MAJ. NAIDEN IN FINAL | OF ARMY GOLF PLAY PHILADELPHIA, October 15 (#).— Maj. E. L. Naiden, Washington, D. C., and Capt. J. H. Gay meet in the final round today_for the golf champion- <hp of the United States Army In the 36-hole semi-final round of the tournament vesterday at the Huntingdon Valley Country Club Maj. Nalden defeated Li Furuholmen, Fort Bliss, Tex. 5—3, while Capt.. Gay eliminated Lieut. . A. Quails, San Antonio, Tex., 10—8. PITT SHAKES UP TEAM FOR COLGATE CONTEST PITTSBURGH, October 15 (#).—In an effort to strengthen the weak spots uncovered in the Georgetown and Lafayette games, Couch Jock Suther- land ‘of the University of Pittsburgh, announced a r: shake-up in the lineup for today, when Pitt plays Colgate here. 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