Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 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. the best first baseman in the National league, tells a yam about the greatest “marble-head” play he ever saw on the diamond. —ll has something on John Anderson’s feat of stealing second with a runner on the keystone sack. •‘The last exhibition game we played Just spring was a t Lynchburg, ’ says Daubert. “The field there is insiffe 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. “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 secbnd base, when I detected the runner on third’ starting for the plate. Quickly I threw the ball to Erwin, who got his man. ’ My man seeing the play, touched second and immediately, started hack to first base, .which he reached safely after a long, slide, ns neither, "myself nor the second ‘ basenmn were looking for any ‘inside trf this character.- ft' was Tfi? WfW .*nd beat anything lever mw.” . ~ . • . 1 ’