Clipping:Batting out of turn 4
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| Date | Saturday, May 30, 1885 |
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| Text | During last Friday’s Providence-Chicago game, Umpire Gaffney was called upon to decide a point seldom, if ever, before raised in a League game. Heretofore, when Clarke [sic] and Flint have played, the batting order has been arranged so that the former has batted No. 8 and the latter No. 9. From some cause–probably carelessness on the part of Anson–that order was reversed, and Flint made batsman No. 8 and Clarkson No. 9. In the third inning Clarkson went to bat when it was Flint’s turn, and struck out. Flint then went to the plate and was given his base on balls. At this point it was discovered that each man had batted out of turn, and Umpire Gaffney’s attention being called to the fact, he decided both men out. Anson then claimed that Gore, who batted No. 1, should be the next man at the bat, but the umpire decided that Clarkson was the one so entitled, on the ground that, though having previously struck out, Flint had reached his base on balls before the error was discovered, and, Clarkson being the next batter in the regular order, he was the one to go the bat. In his decision giving both men out, Mr. Gaffney was undoubtedly right, but in deciding that Clarkson was entitled to go to the bat instead of Gore, the Herald is of the opinion that he was wrong. There appears to be no situation of affairs known to the game where a player can go to the bat more than once in the same inning, except where the entire side has “struck round.” When the two men were decided out the play, as far as they were concerned, was completed, and the game should have proceeded with the batsmen in regular order; that is, Gore, being the next striker after Clarkson, whould have been allowed to take his position. Umpire Gaffney has reported his decision, with the attending circumstances, to President Young of the League. St., quoting the Boston Herald |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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