Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1919 — STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY [ARTICLE]

STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY

..... C Runner Steals Second, Then Steals Back to First When Teammate Is Tagged at Plate. J?:ke Daubert; the best first baseman in the National league, tells a yarn about the greatest “marble-head” "play he ever saw on the diamond, has something on John Andersen’s feat of stealing second with a runner on the keystone sack. -t “The 'last exhibition game we played last spring was at Lynchburg," says Dnybert. “The field there Is inside "Thff race traclT arttie fairgrburidsT and-the catcher is some distance fromtheggrand stand. There were so few spectatoi*s at the game that Manager DahlCn 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 bn a throw by Erwin. In' chasing him np and down the line I pot him within ten j ~ of.- secptid base, when I detected the runner on third starting for the plate. Quickly. I threw the ball to Erwih, who got his man. My man’ seeing, the play, touched second and "Immediately started Back to first base, wjjich he reached safely after a Jong slide, nsneither myself nor the second base* mhirwere looking for any ‘inside stuff of thifr character .7 It was the prize bon-headed stuat and beat anything I ever saw.” . . ’