Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1919 — STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY [ARTICLE]

STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY

Runner, Steals Second, Then Steals Back to First When Teammate Is Tagged at Plate. Jake Daubert, the best first baser man in the National league, tells a yarn about the greatest “marble-head’’ play he ever saw on the diamond. It has something on John Anderson’s feat of stealing second with a runner on tin? keystone sack. “The last exhibition game we played last spring was at ..ynchburg,” says Daubert. “The field there is inside the race track at the* fair grounds, and the catcher is some distance from the grand stand. There were so few spectators at the game that Manager Dahlen suggested inviting them to come down and sit on the players’ bench.l “The Lynchburg team got men on first and third in the eighth inning when the runner on first was caught eff the bag on a throw by Erwin. In chasing him up and down the line I got him within ten feet- of second base, when I detected the runner on third start fog for the plate. Quickly I threw the ball to Erwin, who got his inan. My «ninn seeing the pl&y, .touched - second and immediately started back to* first base, which he reached safely after a long slide, as neither myself nor the second "biise- •- Muff’Tofthls character; It'was. the prize x 'bon»»headed stunt and beat anything I ever saw." / '