Clipping:Calling and counting balls
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| Date | Thursday, March 13, 1873 |
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| Text | In calling balls, under the code of playing rules for 1873, the Umpire must observe the appended rules– 1. He must neither call nor count the first ball delivered to each striker, as the first ball is dead as far as calling or counting it is concerned. 2. Every ball recorded in the section headed “Unfair Balls” must be called in the order of its delivery after the first ball has been sent in. The section in which the word “repeatedly” occurs does not apply in this case. For instance, suppose the pitcher sends in five consecutive “unfair” balls, the first is not counted, the second is counted but not called, and the next three must be called in succession. 3. When the pitcher “repeatedly” fails to deliver fair balls to the bat, then the umpire must call balls then the umpire must call balls on him. For instance, should the pitcher, on delivering the first ball to the bat, send in a “low” ball when a “high” one is called for, such ball is to be counted but not “called;” that is, it is to be counted as the first of the two balls which will constitute the required repetitions of the unfair delivery necessary to incur the penalty, and should the third ball not be within the specified distance, then “one ball” must be called. It is only in the case of a failure to deliver “fair” balls to the bat that the word repeatedly comes into play, and not in the case of the delivery of unfair balls. It should be remembered that there is a distinction between the class of balls expressly named “unfair balls,” and such balls as constitute a failure to deliver fair balls, as a reading of the appended sections will show: UNFAIR BALLS 4. All balls delivered to the bat which are sent in over the striker’s head, or on the ground in front of the home base, or on the side opposite to that which the batsman strikes from, or which hits the striker while he is standing in his proper position, or which are sent in within a foot of his person, shall be considered unfair balls, and every such unfair ball must be called in the order of its delivery, after the first ball has been delivered, and the first ball to each striker alone to be excepted. FAIR BALLS 5. All balls delivered to the bat which are sent over the home base, and “high” or “low,” as the batsman calls for, and which are not delivered by an overhand throw or by a round arm delivery, as in cricket, shall be considered fair balls. It will be seen that the pitcher may fail to deliver “fair balls” to the bat and yet not send in an “unfair ball.” For instance, a ball sent in over the home base and between a foot from the ground and waist high of the striker is not an “unfair ball,” and yet, owing to the fact of a high ball being called for, it is not strictly a fair ball. The difference in the application of the penalty is, that while every “unfair ball”–as described in section 4 of the rule in question–must be called whenever delivered, the other class of unfair balls–that is, not fair balls for the striker–cannot be called until the pitcher has “repeatedly”–viz., twice in succession–failed to deliver fair balls to the bat. This different in the application of the penalty should be well studied by umpires., quoting from Henry Chadwick’s DeWitt’s Guide for 1873 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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