Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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. 4 Jake Daubert, the best first baseman 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 the fceysfenre saW~~ “The last exhibition game we played last spring was at Lynchburg," says liaubert. “The field there is inslfie 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_qeplayerg , L bench. “ .“The Lynchburg team got men on first and third in the eighth inning when the runner on first was caught off 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 starting nr the plate. Quickly I threw the ball to Erwin, pho got his man. My man .seeing the piny, touched second and Immediately started back to first bnse. which he * reached safely after n tong slide, as" neither mjtself nor the. second baseman were looking for any ‘lnside stuff’ this, character. -Lt was bormheaded stunt and beat anything I ever saw.” . >