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Last month Ray Dumont, president of the National Baseball Congress (semipro teams' trade association), proposed a new rule for baseball. His suggestion: let the hitter take his choice of running to either first or third, then continue on around the bases in the same direction. His reasons: more fun for fans, more action in the infield. Sportswriters hooted...
Publicity-wise Ray Dumont last week swore he was in earnest. He promised that the Congress' National Tournament in August will test his both-ways base running. Said he: "Any new idea . . . always receives a cold reception. . . . They said Alexander Graham Bell had bells ringing in his belfry...
...Argentines. It embarrassed President Castillo as Teddy Roosevelt once embarrassed neutral Woodrow Wilson by proposing to fight for Belgium. This week General Justo flew to Rio in the private plane of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas as guest of honor for the Brazilian national holiday. At Santos Dumont Airfield he got a roaring welcome from 30,000 Brazilians. All this raised General Justo's chances of succeeding President Castillo in 1943. President Castillo was particularly galled because last July he himself had said: "War-minded people are fully free to go to actual war fronts, where they...
Last week Ray Dumont announced the birth of another brain child: an "eagle's nest" for umpires. Like the crow's nest tried out at a Southern Oregon State Normal basketball game last month, the ballpark nest will be about ten feet above the ground, will give the base umpire a bird's-eye view of the infield. But Dumont's nest will be perched on a movable derrick, which, at the press of a button, will whisk the umpire to crucial spots...
First tryout: next summer, when the pick of President Dumont's 70,000 sand-lot teams meet in Wichita for the national semi-pro championship...