Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1917 — CENTER FIELDER DROPS FOUL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CENTER FIELDER DROPS FOUL

While Playing for Brooklyn Fielder Jones Muffed Ball Just Over Left Field Line. Fielder Jones, manager of the St Louis Americans, believes he Is the only major league center fielder that ever received an error for muffing a foul ball. Years ago Jones was playing the middle garden for Brooklyn. Joe Kelley was in left and Willie Keeler in right field. A left field hitter of

the Mclnnis type came to bat and the outfielder shifted so sharply that Jones was really playing left field. The batter sent up a long fly, which threatened to drop close to the left foul line. Kelley and Jones raced after the ball, and the latter got his hands on it, but the sphere fell from his grasp into fo.ul territory.

Fielder Jones.