How to score; a practical textbook for scorers of base ball games, amateur and expert . from each other in order that thesymmetry of the diamond and the correct theory of the gamemay be preserved. Players of yoimger years may find that asmaller diamond adds more enjoyment to their amusement,since they are better able to cover the ground in fielding theball in a smaller area and do not become so fatigued by runningthe bases when the latter are stationed at their full legal dis-tance from each other. The bases, except home plate, are best constructed of canvasbags filled with sawdust. Home plate
How to score; a practical textbook for scorers of base ball games, amateur and expert . from each other in order that thesymmetry of the diamond and the correct theory of the gamemay be preserved. Players of yoimger years may find that asmaller diamond adds more enjoyment to their amusement,since they are better able to cover the ground in fielding theball in a smaller area and do not become so fatigued by runningthe bases when the latter are stationed at their full legal dis-tance from each other. The bases, except home plate, are best constructed of canvasbags filled with sawdust. Home plate should be of whitenedrubber, whenever it is possible to obtain it. Some cruder sub-stance may be used for bases if nothing else is obtainable, butit is best to follow the suggestions given. First, second andthird bases should be attached to pegs driven in the groimd,and home plate should be sunk so that its upper surface is ona level with the surface of the ground. The pitchers position on a diamond of regulation size Islocated sixty and five-tenths fe€t from home plate, and on a. PLAY BALL. The A. G. Spalding Bronze Championship Trophy for Public SchoolsAthletic above group is executed in bronze, the figures being 18 inches high,and was presented to the Public Schools Athletic League of Greater NewYork by Mr. A. G. Spalding as a perpetual trophy for annual competitionbetween the elementary schools of Greater New York, the winning schoolto have custody of the statuette for one year. In the first competition,held in 1905, 103 schools were entered, the winner being Public School 46,Manhattan; Public School 10, Brooklyn, won in 1906 and again in 1907;Public School 9 of Brooklyn won it in 1908, Public School 28, Borough ofthe Bronx, in 1909 and 1910; Public School 152, Brooklyn, in 1911, andPublic School 77, Brooklyn, in 1912. The offer was subsequently extended,by request, to other large cities where regularly organized Public SchoolsAthletic Leagues exist. San Fran
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