Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1917 — OUTFIELDER IN TRICK PLAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUTFIELDER IN TRICK PLAY

Amos Strunk of Philadelphia Athletics Makes Putout at First—Two Other Instances. Something out of the ordinary Is for an outfielder to make the putout on a player who is caught off first by a pitcher. Amos Strunk, Athletic center fielder, was the hero of a stunt of this kind in a game played in Washington on June 20. The victim was Charley Jamieson, whom Grlf tried to remake into a pitcher this season and who now has gone back to outfielding. “Rube” Schauer detected Jamieson taking too long a lead off first in the eighth inning and his throw to McInnis started' a run-down play that was completed when Strunk, who help-

ed in it, tagged Jamieson on the line and the back. A trick American league outfitelders apparently have forgotten is to sneak in from center and help trap a man off-Second. Two guardians of the middle mesa have accomplished such a feat—j Tris Speaker, when he was playing with the Red Sox against the Indians, and Jesse Clyde Milan of the Nationals, against the Red Sox. They received throws from the backstops and plastered said throws on the rtbs of "Doc” Johnston and Larry Gardner. Speaker tricked Johnston on June 7,1913; Milan hoodwinked Gardner on July 7, 1915.

Amos Strunk.