Clipping:A proposed rule to make steals force plays

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Date	Wednesday, August 17, 1887
Text	[from Caylor's column]...I had a talk with [Ted] Sullivan about umpiring generally, and he expressed the opinion that most of the umpire's troubles came from decisions at second base, which, ion most cases, are as he claims—guess work. He suggested that the remedy for this must be found in a rule abolishing the necessity of touching a base-runner at second or third base on a steal, and making the play the same as a force-out b3y requiring the baseman to merely hold the ball on the base before the base-runner reaches it. That might relieve the umpire somewhat, but it would kill the science of base-running and base-playing. In fact, Mr. Sullivan's theory would never do.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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