Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — Base Signal Aids Umpire. [ARTICLE]

Base Signal Aids Umpire.

' A base signal for baseball fields to aid the poor umpire at a baseball game has been Invented by Stephen H. Wills. The invention is expected to terminate the famous disputes between opposing players and the umpire on whether the player touched the base before being tagged out. The jipparatus makes an electrical contact. which sound ..the alarm and raises the signal when a baserunner touches fr reaches the base. This Is accomplished by having the baseplate or" bag hinged and raised at one edge bya spring; when the runner touches it, it la depressed, giving the warning.