BASEBALL POINTS,
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run, and the runner on first falls runners
can advance unless
to touch third base on his way to forced to make room for the
the plate, does that affect the batsmen. status of the batsman ?
Five-Has the pitcher a right
to take a position off the rubber and foint a delivery of the ball to
is the batsman ?....
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Tbree-If the umpire is hit by
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FourThe failure of a preced-
ing runner to touch a base, and wba is declared out for so doing, in no way affects the status of a succeeding runner. unless there are two out.
One-When pilober aonounced what must he do?
Two-What happens when thể One-When a pitcher is an umpire to hit by a batted ball announced in the lineup be must which no play has been made?" pitch until at least one bataman
Five-The pitcher positively Three-lf the umpire is hit by is retired or reaches first. a thrown ball what is the proper Two-If the umpire is bit by abas no right to be off the rubber ruling?
fairly batted ball on which no and feint a delivery of the ball to Four-If there is a runner on play is made, the batsman is the batsman. Such an act 198 first, and the batter hits a home entitled to first base, but no balk.
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An automatio codiez machine Taia is because the machine which experts predict will re-doos all the "thinking" mechani volutionize busines and private cally. A child, having the proper. correspondence by raido and line "key" wheel can operata i telegraphy, has been invented without difficulty. at Oakland.
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The weakness of all previous
It is a small machine, with key-codes, pointed out by Pos in "The board somewhat like that of Gold Bug." is also obviated. The typa-writer and a series of wired jetter "o" occurs with the greatest wheels, which its inventor pro-feequency in any lengthy mises will insure absolute secrecy message, the letter "i" with next in the transmission of messages. greatest frequency, and so on. Mr. Edward H. Hebern, its in-each letter of the alphabet ventor, has other successful having ith relative order of machines to his credit. He has appearance. Thus coders could, worked on this codifying sp by counting the symbols, deter paratus for 12 years, he says, and
mine their meaning. - has spent more than $300,000 in this work.
But the Rebara code machine is so constructed, that the ra For the last two years the petition of a symbol does not machine has been undergoing mean the repetition of any given Bovera tosts by cryptographers, in a message, it might stand
letter. Thus if x appeared twicel both government and privatë. They have failed to discover a first for an a, b, or o, and the single flaw that would enable an
next time for an x, y'or z. In fact autsider to decode the messages times in a massage before it can a letter must appear 11,000,000 sent through it.
be traced back to mean the same Assured of his success ML latter as that for which 31 Hebern is now ready to market originally stood. This invention he says at a cost of
$100 each. Business houses Experts are also predicting that
with branches all
over the
this machine will make chack country, telegraph offices, radio forging and false casbing pra By the stations, hotels and other semiotically impossible. public places are Reens future placing of a secret code message users of the coding machine.
of several letters on a check, e. The scoret of the apparatus bank, supplied with the duplicate lies in
wheel
of your wheel, can instantly weighing
detect a "crook," three ounces and Buficiently
be amall to
the
Due to simplicity of coding and
carried in 耩 de coding and to the moderate
vest pocket. These wheels are
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lo pairs, one for the sender and price, it is believed that the THE HUMAN ZOO one for the receiver, Without machines will become exceeding one of these wheels, wired iden. ly useful for homecorrespondance. tically with its mate, buadreds of Writers of love letters and tel millions of operations would bave sgrams, those who have bież embarrassed by prying housemaid, to be gone through before a Hebera code message could be landlady or top inquisitive..rel- atives, will find in them a solution.
decoded.
These wheola come with -a number of loose wires. Attach meat of these wires makes the code,
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Busin sa men will find them but slightly more time-taking to operate than a typewriter, and indispensable in all cases where secrecy is needed,
A key-wheel will fit any machine. Thus if you are travel.
And the supply will be un ling and desire to send a code limited for hundreds of millions of wheels could be made before message, you can borrow any are accidentally wired in machine. The one to whom you identical fashion. send can do likewise.
Even if you" lore, the wheel. your code will be,aafe. You and your correspondent have a secret" "key" for placing the wheel in the machine. Without such "key" anyone finding your wheel would be helpless,
Reaction.
An interesting discussion an Reaction, Its Use and Abuse,” opened by Messrs F.J. Goudron, B.Eo, and F.T. Jones, took place et: a meeting of the Stoke-on- Also, should you discover any-Trent Wireless and Experimental one in the process of decoding Boolety recently. Mr. Goodson your meesege, the turn of this first dealt with re radiation, what wheel a fraction of an inch would it it, and how t is caused, and render the wheel ad machine Mr. Jones de It with its delecida. useless to him, block forever-ad
Another alumbling for To detect re-radiation, touch cod fiera has been the time the aerial terminal with a drup element. Any ceda lab rate finger, and if this produces a enough to make discovery, wank, or a more or less musical difficult has been so involved as nots in the phopes, it shows that to require bours in dece ing the set is re-radiating. If only a Where these codes took hours, a click is produced, this is due to in application, the Hebrn or de capacity effecty, and not to re- takes minutes. he decoding of radia ion.' To beet method of the most involved messages takes detecting ro-radiation is 10 slightly longer than one finger employ another receiving est
ame distance AWAY, typewriting,
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