Clipping:Running out bases on balls
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| Date | Sunday, May 19, 1867 |
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| Text | [Eurekas vs. Irvingtons 5/16/1867] The Umpire selected, Mr. George Flanly, of the Excelsior Club, gave his decision in his usual prompt and effective style, and rendered general satisfaction, although he was led into error in the first three innings by deciding that after a player had been given his base, on three balls he could be put out, if the ball was returned to the pitcher and sent into first base in time to ordinarily cut him off, while the rule reads, “When three balls have been called, the striker shall take the first base, and should any base be occupied at the time, each player occupying it or them, shall take one base without being put out. Under Mr. Flanly’s construction of the rule, wild pitching was decidedly beneficial to the club occupying the field, as it was found almost impossible for a player to reach first base on three balls. An understanding was had at the beginning of the fourth inning, between the umpire and the captains of the nines, and the game from that point was played as the rule directs. New York Dispatch May 19, 1867 [Eurekas vs. Irvingtons 5/16/1867] In these innings two errors were committed by the umpire, on one each side, and that was in putting out Buckley and Calloway at first-base when they had been given those bases on called balls. When a third ball is called the striker is entitled to the first-base, and so are players on the bases similarly entitled to the next base to that they occupy when the third ball is called, and they cannot be put out. One of the most creditable features of the match was the manner in which these errors were received. Not an appeal was made, not a point disputed. Both clubs merit the warmest praise for this conduct. What they had a right to do, however, was this. When the errors was made, the Captain of the nine against whose interest the error told, should have called “time”, before another ball had been pitched, and have quietly inquired, for information merely, whether the interpretation of the rule was the correct one, and if it was not, then the umpire could readily have reversed his decision; but after the committal of the error and the resumption of play without any such calling of time, no appeal could be made and no decision of the umpire reversed, there being no appeal from the decision of the umpire. As soon, however, as Mr. Flanly discovered his mistake, he corrected it, and afterward decided according to the rule, except in the instance in the fifth inning–Lewis being entitled to his run while on the third-base when a third ball was called, and in the sixth innings, when H. Campbell was erroneously given out at first-base when attempting to run to second after having his base given him on a third ball. Had he been put out a second-base under similar circumstances, viz., while running from first to second after receiving his first base on a third ball, then he would have been out, but as it was he could not be put out at first-base until after the ball had been pitched to the bat, and the game resumed after the third called ball. New York Sunday Mercury May 19, 1867 enforcing the interference rule [Eurekas vs. Irvingtons 5/16/1867] The decision in giving Pike out for intentional abstraction [sic] in preventing Lex from fielding the ball elicited applause from all present. It is the first time we ever saw this rule properly enforced. New York Sunday Mercury May 19, 1867 Pike hit a ball along [the] line to first base, and seeing that Lex was likely to capture it in time to put him out, kicked it with his foot, for which the umpire decided him out. (Applause.) New York Dispatch May 19, 1867 For the first time we witnessed in this game the striker put out for obstructing a fielder in fielding the ball in running the first-base, and the prompt infliction of the penalty elicited the applause of all. New York Clipper May 25, 1867 |
| Source | New York Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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