Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1913 — Latest Freak Play. [ARTICLE]
Latest Freak Play.
From Knoxville, Tenn., that home of peculiar plays, comes a story of a new one from a truthful correspondent. In a recent Appalachian league game, with a man on third, Schiefley of Knoxville stole second. ' The Bristol second baseman dropped the ball and Schiefley sat down on it. While a search was being made for it the man on third “stole” home. The umpire, says the correspondent, refused to allow a claim of “interference.”
