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Dan,
I think your partner was looking for boogers and found a sticky one and then he blew the rule by calling the hit batter out for not touching 1B - that must be an appeal, and no appeal should have been allowed in this play. Cecil covered that one with the batter-runner passing 1B. I'm also sure that you were wrong in sending R1 back to 1B - that too was an awarded base.
Both Fed & ASA books are in the van, so I'm trusting memory & everyone else who hunted for Fed's position to say this isn't specifically covered by Fed. But, while Fed does not make mention of this, ASA does. Since ASA is the national governing body, my inclination would be to follow the ASA position every time that Fed does not cover it. Along with this, John Bennett's rules differences book (I have that on my computer, so I can do a FIND on different key words) also recommends that we follow ASA's position on an injured runner and the awarded base.
Steve M
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