Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1911 — Great Baseball Play. [ARTICLE]

Great Baseball Play.

“What was the greatest baseball play you ever saw?” asked a friend of Governor-elect John W. Tener: “The greatest play I ever saw,” said he, “took place in an amateur game on a town lot at Charleroi. The teams were playing on a wet, field and an outfielder who wore a derby hat went after a high fly. He came to a little pond and taking his eye off the hall made a jump to cross It. As he was leaping the ball struck him on the head, went through the crown of his hat and lodged there. The base runner was out and the fielder had not touched the ball with his hands. Can you beat it?” —Washington Correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch.