Clipping:Enforcing the restriction on high deliveries

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Date Saturday, May 10, 1884
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[Columbus vs. St. Louis 5/9/1884] ...the effective pitching of Morris bothered the St. Louis very materially, and for a long time the umpire gave him full latitude, and he was not slow in crowding the limit, leaving his box repeatedly, and constantly getting his arm far above his head and at the same time nipping the base-runners by obvious and palpable baulks. He finally overstepped the bounds, and in the last inning–the tenth–Quest was sent to his base on a baulk, was advanced a base by McGinnis on a sacrifice, and was driven home by Gleason on a superb right-field slash, securing the winning run and the game. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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