Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1919 — STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY [ARTICLE]

STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY

Runner Steal? 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 on the keystone sack. “The last exhibition game we played last spring was at Lynchburg,” says Danbert. “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 £>nhlen suggested inviting them to dome down and sit bn the players’ bench. . r “The Lynchburg team got men on first and third in the eighth inning when the runner on first was naught off the hag 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 for the plate. Quickly I threw the ball to Erwin, who got his man. My man seeing the play, touched • second - and immediately started back to first base, which he reached, safely after a* long slide, as neithcn myself nor the secbnd baseman tferp- looking for any,‘inside stuflf'. of this jCharaeter. It ttbs the prize boneheuded stunt and . heat anything I ever saTr.* "<