equidistant. No stump match shall be played on a regular day of exercise. If there should not be a sufficient number of members of the Club present at the time agreed upon to commence exercise, gentlemen not members may be chosen in to make up the match, which shall not be broken up to take in members that may afterwards appear; but in all cases, members shall have the preference, when present, at the making of a match. If members appear after the game is commenced, they may be chosen in if mutually agreed upon. The game to consist of twenty-one counts, or aces; but at the conclusion an equal number of hands must be played. The ball must be pitched, not thrown, for the bat. A ball knocked out of the field, or outside the range of first or third base, is foul. Three balls being struck at and missed and the last one caught, is a hand out; if not caught is considered fair, and the striker bound to run. If a ball be struck, or tipped, and caught, either flying or on the first bound, it is a hand out. A player running the bases shall be out, if the ball is in the hands of an adversary on the base, or the runner is touched with it before he makes his base; it being understood, however, that in no instance is a ball to be thrown at him. A player running who shall prevent an adversary from catching or getting the ball before making his base, is a hand out. Three hands out, all out. Players must take their strike in regular turn. All disputes and differences relative to the game, to be decided by the Umpire, from which there is no appeal. No ace or base can be made on a foul strike. A runner cannot be put out in making one base, when a balk is made by the pitcher. But one base allowed when a ball bounds out of the field when struck. It is likely that Wheaton picked some of his twenty rules based upon his previous experience in town ball play in Manhattan. According to his own account some fifty years later, his written rules for the Gotham Base Ball Club in 1837 eliminated "plugging" the runner and laid out the infield as a regular diamond. The twenty rules differed in