Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1914 — Rule Does Not Hold. [ARTICLE]

Rule Does Not Hold.

The first decision under the ruling of President Johnson that the provision calling runners out at third when touched by a coacher does not hold if the ball is knocked out of the park came in a recent Athletic-Tiger series at Philadelphia. After slugging the sphere out of the lot, which is Qot a rare thing for Sam Crawford to do, Moriarty, who happened to be coaching at third stepped over and congratulated £am with a hearty handshake, whereupon the champions sell up the claim that the batter, under the rule that a coacher must not touch the base runner, was out Umpire Chill overruled the contention, holding that the ball had been batted out of the field and therefore was out of play.