Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1919 — MUFFS FIRST FLY IN YEARS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MUFFS FIRST FLY IN YEARS

Larry Doyle of Giants, Allows Ball to Slip Between Fingers in Pi* • rate Game. Those fans who saw Larry Doyle set himself squarely under a pop fly from the bat of Casey Stengel inT'a recent game between the Giants and Pirates, get the ball in his hands, and allow it to slip through his clutching fingers to the ground are hereby informed that they witnessed a very not'made an error of just that sort for 12 long years—that is, he had not muffed a fly ball under which he had time to settle Kimself for the catch. He blamed his recent defection on the

fact that he had not yet fully recovered from injury to his bead. His head, he says, fairly swam as he scrambled backward to get under the looping pellet, and he was so dizzy that he could barely get his hands on the ball, to say nothing of holding it firmly.

Larry Doyle.