Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1917 — FIRST TRIPLE PLAY IS MADE [ARTICLE]

FIRST TRIPLE PLAY IS MADE

Description of Thriller Pulled Off on Forbes Field—Stunt Engineered by Boeckel.

The triple play made in the Pitts-burgh-Boston game of September 18 Is said to be the first eper pulled on Forbes Field. With the-fchses full in the second inpfng of the second game, Myers hit to Boeckel, who thr*w to Schmidt, forcing a runner at the plate. Schmidt sent the ball to first ahead of the slow-running Meyers, and when Kelly tried to come on home frim second he was retired by a throw back from first to the •catcher.