Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1915 — PECULIAR TRIPLE PLAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PECULIAR TRIPLE PLAY

Crawford Hits Safely, but Is “Killed” With Two Others. » . - ' “Wild Bill” Donovan Relates Exceptional Play in Exhibition Game— Three Players Retired on a Clean Single.

During a fanning bee recently several well-known players were discussing exceptional happenings in baseball. Plays of every kind and variety were mentioned until the conversation had veered around to Wild Bill Donovan, who had smilingly accepted the statements. There was a lull in the story telling when Wild Bill put in: “Did any of you fellows ever see a triple killing on a single? When the All Nationals went west in 1902 we opened against another all-star aggregation at Hamilton, O. In the first inning of the game we got a man on first and second, nobody out and Wahoo Sam Crawford at bat. Red Dooin was catching for them and Miller Huggins was playing second base. “Sam gave the hit-and-run signal and the men on bases started with the pitch. Sam met the ball squarely for a single into left field. The man on second rounded third for home and the man on first tore around second for third. “Lefty Houtz was playing left field for the other side and he came in

with the crack of the bat, scooped the hall off the ground and shot it to Dooln on a line. “The man -who had rounded • third saw the ball was going to heat him to thd plate so he stopped and started back to third. The other runner also turned round, touched third, and started back to second. “Crawford was already past first and tearing for second. Dooin sized up the play immediately, made a bluff throw to third and whipped the hall to Huggins, who touched Crawford, sliding into second feet first, then turned in time to put the ball on the other man coming bhck to second head first. “The man who was almost to the plate, and who turned back, was standing off third watching the play when

Huggins touched Sam and the other player, then wheeled and threw to third, nailing his man for the third out." - “You win," was the verdict of the fanning players.

“Wild Bill” Donovan.

Sam Crawford.