Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1920 — RABBIT PUTS ARBITER IN BAD WITH PLAYERS [ARTICLE]

RABBIT PUTS ARBITER IN BAD WITH PLAYERS

During a baseball game in the Norwood (O.) Industrial league, a rabbit caused much hilarity and a new baseball ruling tiftt must stand as a precedent. In the eighth inning of a hard contest between an adding machine company’s team and a sash and door company’s club the rabbit jumped out from beneath the grand stand and started hippity-hop across the diamond. The players of the sash and door club who were in the field with a wild cry started in pursuit of Br’er rabbit During all the excitement, a baserunner for the opposing team hoofed it for home and scored. A tempestuous scene followed. The sash and door club claimed that time should have been called by the umpire. Arbiter Cooker ruled thus: “It is' the umpire’s sole right to call time in any game. The players had no right to chase the rabbit unless said chase was sanctioned by the umpire. The run counts.”