The Klamath news., December 09, 1925, Image 6

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A LEAGUE HEADS Tfll
1 PLAN NEW RULES
Baseball Leader Worry Orcr
Too Many Loit Bate
balU In 1925
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NEW YORK. Dec. S Amidst the
greetings of old baseball friends.
ill excited chatter of reminiscence
end the exploding of rumors, the
auiulH of nation! league bare
begun their annual winter meeting.
While the corridora of the hosptt
able old Waldorf Astoria overflow-
ed with facea familiar to the nation
al paatlme for a acore and more of
years the owner of the eight club
of our major league baseball cir
cuit met behind closed door up
stairs. The meeting will be con
tinued Wednesday afternoon, after
memorial services in memory of
many national leaguers who died
during 1925.
Somehow the friendship of base-
ball men seem more enduring than
those in other branches of sport,
and all day long the gilded, high-
eeillaged corridors rang with cries
of "hello, there. Johnny," "well,
well, howdy, Jim," as heroes of
yesteryear. Including many who
helped bring baseball to the posi
tion of prominence It occupies to
day, renewed rrquafntance and
swapped yarns of "good old days."
on the diamond.
1 The national league, at Its ad
journed meeting reached no very
startling decisions Tuesday. Per
haps the most important had to
do with a recommendation to th i
Joint rules committee that pitchers
" vcruuuea a limited use of re
sin next year.
President John Heydler had Just
finished explaining that th- num
ber ot baseballs used during- the
past season reached the unusual
total of 46.184, or 3.S47 do.en.
.this, he said. Is 245 dozen mors
man were used by the .national
league in 1924, and more than
double the number rea aired In isjii
when the players disposed of 1,52a
aoien.
"We agreed It was about time
something was done to mrt tht.
aid Heydler, who then went to-
explain that one way In which this
might be done would be to permit
pitcners to nse resin, under con
trol of the umpires. He said this
recommendation would be made to
tne joint rules nmmiii tn t.
ary or February, when the latter
oooy win meet at Heydler's request
Besides reducing the number of
balls a pitcher now requires, the
nse of resin would soon hare its
effect upon the hitting. Not only
would a twirler require fewer
sphere in the course of a game,
but his effectiveness would be increased.
SCOUT MOVEMENT
GETS UNDER WAV
Troop. In Variou. Part,
Of County Met Last
Friday Night
Bcoutlns Is getting we!! cncanlred !
in Klamath Fulls, according to K O.
Nord. local scout excrt'tlve. Friday :
evening there voro r.?out ir.-et'ngs
held In various part- of the county
as follows: ;
Troop One of Kigali. Falls was '.
under the leadership of M. R. Bor-
land, assistant scoutmaster. S. P. L. '
Swansea is gettin nom. .'. !
competition under way. and the boys
are advancing rapidly In scoutcraft.
Howard Barnhisel. or.e of the Round
Table special Instructors, was on
hand and gave Instruction in sema
phore signaling. The scout execu
tive was present and delivered to
the boys their drum and bugle
equipment, flag and other property.
Oeorge May was named bugler. Ron
ald Ulrich drummer. Troop One Is
going right ahead.
Troop Four. nnHpr th I
of Frank Moser, held a very good
meeting. Howard Metcalf, special
Instructor of the Round Table, help-
urn uujs on tneir tenderfoot sub
jects, specializing on knots.
Meetings were also held at Donan
sa under the leadership of James
Lubke and C. A. Kieler, and at Chll
oqufn under the leadership of W c
Balfour, Frank Bell and DeKore
Cramblett.
Monday evening Troop Two holds
Its meeting at the Presbyterian
church, under the leadershln of Per.
oy Murray. William Mueller mri n, I
Cole.
Troop Three meets at the fiacred
Heart Academy under William Can
ton and D. K. Vasdonburg. The
Scout executive plans to visit both
troops.
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