Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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 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 oil the keystone sack. “The last exhibition game we played hi st spring wa s at Lynchburg." says "Da übert? “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 Lyhchburg 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 hi,n OP and down the line I got-llim ten feet’ of second base, when I detected the runner on’ third starting for the plate. Quickly I threiv the ball to gptjiis man. My a J« touched second and immediately starter! back to first base, which he reached safely after a long slide, as neitjipr myself nor "the second 'baseinn n were looking for any ‘inside stuff' of this character.- It was the prize b<tn“headed stunt and beat anything I ever saw." „