Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1919 — STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY [ARTICLE]

STORY OF “BONEHEAD” PLAY

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 “warble-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 Inst spring was at Lynchburg,” says Daubert. “The field there is insiHe 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 Dnhlen' 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 ftf when the runner on first was caught off the bag on a throfw by Erwin. In chasing him up and, down the line I xot him within ten t> 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, 1 touched secomf and* immediately started hack to, first base, which he reached, safely after a long slide, as neither myself nor the second haseraan were ionldng for any ‘in'sjde stuff 1 of this character. It was the prize bnfiehended stunt and beat anything 1 ever saw.”