Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1913 — USE FOOTBALL IN BASEBALL [ARTICLE]

USE FOOTBALL IN BASEBALL

New Winter Game Invented by Pennsylvania Professor Has Unique Features—Accidents Few. Baseball may soon be an all-year-round sport, for you can now play it with a football. The new friend of the, magnate ana the professional players’ nemesis is Professor Benscoter of the Wilkesbarre high school. As inventor of the new game, he explains it as follows: “A baseball can uot be easily held by players in cold weather, hence the need of a game with the larger, clumsier football, It is played on a baseball diamond, with the same number of players on a the most notable difference being that there is no pitcher; this player occupies the position of another shortstop—‘right shortstop’ —between first and second. = “The ball is put into play by being kicked from home plate-and the runner hikes for first, as in baseball, and is put out by the passing of the ball to first ahead of him, as in baseball, or being touched by it in the hands of a player. “The runner may not advance from a base when the ball has been passed tb the baseman who touches the base while the runner is there; this debars the runner from advancing from the base until it has been again kicked out; it likewise debars any runner back of him. The kick may be of any sort—place, punt or drop kick. The runner may be declared out if he advances from the base before the ball is kicked out. If the ball is kicked foul or the kicker is out; he is also out if he fails in an attempt to kick. /‘The game is very lively, being full of constant kicking, running, catching and passing. It develops strength, speed, accuracy, skill and with less liability to accidents even than in baseball on account of the freedom from the chance of being injured by a pitched or batted ball.”