Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1916 — SCORING IS BLAMED [ARTICLE]

SCORING IS BLAMED

Pittsburgh Writers Criticize St % Louis Official. Think Pitcher Babe Adame Should Have Credit for No-Hit GameCorps of League Scorers Would Solve Problem. Official scoring in the baseball world Is again causing trouble. It started right here in St. Louis when Pittsburgh writers criticized the work of the local official at the Cardinal park for not giving Babe Adams a no-hit game. One dinky hit, that many thought was an error by Schultz, was the sole black mark against the Pirate hurler, writes Ed Wray in St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The present system is truly faulty. Scorers are appointed by home clubs. They are Invariably working newspaper men. Sometimes, as in this city, the same man is not on duty in all games, but the job is "split,” representatives of several papers taking turns at the task. Thus several individualities may enter into the scoring in the same town. Pittsburgh writers suggest that the league select a paper, without permitting anyone to know which one it i?, and take its box scores from that publication. It is argued that the scorers would then each give his own version, without waiting for the official on it. But this would only confuse fans who want one ruling on plays and that an official one. And they are entitled to it. The obvious course, if the scoring is not satisfactory, is to take it out of the scribes’ hands and establish a corps of league scorers, each to be assigned io certain series, just as are the league umpires. There is absolutely no reason why this should not be done now, even allowing for the expense.