Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1917 — BOBTAIL GAMES ARE BARRED [ARTICLE]

BOBTAIL GAMES ARE BARRED

President of American League Stops Practice of Calling Games for Team to Catch Train. There will be no more bobtail games played in the American league, so that one team or another can catch an early train. President Ban Johnson has issued a sharp call-down to the managers’and umpires, for consenting to call the Chicago-Cleveland game of July 2 before nine innings were played, pointing out that there is a rule of the league against the practice. The game, which went seven innings, the Sox winning 4 to 3, presumably will stand, however. .