Clipping:Tagging up on foul flies
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| Date | Sunday, January 10, 1875 |
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| Text | Among the amendments to the rules likely to be adopted in March next are two or three which should commend themselves to special favor with the fraternity. ...and lastly, allowing bases to be run on foul-ball fly-catches, just the same as those of fair fly-balls caught; this is, to allow, the base runner to leave the base he has returned to and touched on a foul ball, hit high for a catch, the moment the ball is caught, just the same as he now does in the case of a fair fly-ball caught. ... In regard to allowing base runners the privilege to run bases on a foul fly catch just the same as in the case of a fair fly ball caught, there is not a point that can be made against the new rule, while several can be urged in its favor. The foul ball feature of the game is already too one-sided in its character to be as fair as other points of play are. By the existing rule the striker of a foul ball is not only punished, but also the base runner occupying an earned base when the ball is hit. Sure the latter is entitled to as much freedom in running bases on a foul ball as caught on the fly on a fair fly ball. The new rule will introduce livelier work in base running, and consequently improve the game. New York Sunday Mercury January 10, 1875 [from a letter by Benjamin Douglass, Jr., of the Hartford Club] There are several reasons why this should be adopted. In the first place, it is very seldom the fault of the players on the bases when they do thus get out. It is often caused by the umpire’s being slow in calling four or by his being unable to hear him when he does call, on account of the noise made by the crowd, so that it is an accident when base runners are so put out, and not by any good play by opponents, therefore it should not be taken advantage of by them. Philadelphia All-Day City Item February 28, 1875 the Atlantic Club annual meeting At the annual meeting of [the Atlantic Club], held Jan. 7, the following officers were elected, a large number of the old members being present: E.W. Stafford, president; Wm. A. Powers, vice-president; Benj. Van Delft, corresponding secretary; Samuel Davenport, recording secretary; W. Gleason, treasurer. Directors, J. C. Cornish, Jos. Hamilton, James Campbell. Auditing Committee, Hugh F. Campbell, Rich. Goodwin, Jr., James H. Preaton. The players engaged for the Atlantic team of 1875 include Barlow, Rosman, Crane, Patterson, Nichols, Kessler, Booth, Pabor, Clack, Boyd and two or three other good men, and true Charley Pabor, the honest old veteran of the Morrisania Unions, will captain the team. New York Sunday Mercury January 10, 1875 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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