Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 215, 21 August 1915 — Page 7
PAGE SEVEN Events Seen Through the Classical Bonehead Plays SAZI CRAWFORD NEAR CCO-IHT RECORD. -AND STILL HAS COHE YEARS TO PLAY WHITE SOX STARS FORM?$100,000 INFIELD
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1915
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Foamier (left); Blackburn, CoWm and Weaver (top to bottom, right). , The new "100,000 infield" in the 'American league is that of the Chicago White Sox, and consists of Jacques Foamier at first base; Eddie Collin at second; Buck Weaver at short, and Russell Biackhturne at third. All these hare been most proficient performers sine Joining: the bis; show, and Collins was a member of the great infield which made the Athletics famous.
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Recently at Newark, N. J, the Feds staged a ball cam whereat the bleacher admission was only ten cents. Twenty and fifty cent were the other prices and the idea seemed so successful that President Gilmore now declares-that it may be tried in all the Federal league cities. The cartoonist has one or two hit? ideas that may help the Fed fill their eats.
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BREEZE, ILU SHOULD BE PROUD OF ITS BEST KNOWN NATIVE SON, LARRY DOYLE
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- Boner will be made and boners will be forgotten, but the one that Ollie O'Mara pulled in a recent . OiantDodger game ought to be' written in indelible letter on the page of bateball history. . Jack Coomb was on second and Outfielder Myers was an first O'Mara stepped to the plate and bunted. Catcher Dooln of the Giants picked up the bunt and tried for the force out at third. He threw wildly, and the ball went to left field where Burns tried to pick it up, but bobbled with it long enough to permit both Coombs and Myers to score. Where was 0,'Mara all this time? Probably rounding second, you say? Not at all. Mr. O'Mara, having bunted, refused to run. He claimed that the ball waa a foul, despite, the fact that Umpire Hank O'Day called it fair. Teammate from the' Brooklyn bench grabbed O'Mara and hustled him toward first while Burns was fooling with the ball in left, but O'Mara broke away and ran toward the umpire.
"That ball was foul." yelled O'Mara, It was 'foul, I eay. D'ya hear me?" . Then O'Mara started back toward bom plate. Once again hi teammates tried to hustle him to first, but O'Mara threw them off. He kept ; yelling: "That ball was foul." ? By this time both the Dodger runners bad scored and the. ball was finally thrown to the Giants' infield. It was relayed to first and O'Mara was put out. Can you beat it? DOYLE'S CLASSIC BONER. Larry Doyle, captain of the Giants, pulled a boner earlier in the season that was a classic. It is a safe bet that 99 per cent of the fans who saw it or read about it have forgotten it. Burns, the Giant outfielder was on third. There was one out. Doyle sent a long fly to right field which Moran caught. Doyle ran out the drive and was just rounding" first when Moran threw the ball to the infield. In the meantime,' Burns was shooting for
home. There wasnt a chance la the world for the throw to catch Burns at the plate, and Moran didnt make a try .for him. - The ball came sailing close to Doyle just as he wa slowing up after rounding first, and Doyle, to the amazement of .every one . present, reached but and caught it. The Braves at once rushed to the umpire and claimed that Doyle' act prevented their making a play at the plate for Bums. In reality, no play had been made, but the umpire could do nothing else but rule in favor of the Braves, and although Burns had scored and already was back in the dug-out. the umpire anulled Burns' run and declared him out because of the interference of Doyle. Had Burns' run been allowed to stand the Giants would have won the game, as the score up to that time was tied. The Braves finally pushed another run across and won the game.
Larry Doyle. Larry Doyle, captain of the New York Giants and among the batting leader of the National league, come from Breeze, I1L Larry began his career by getting coal out of the mines around Breeze and playing baU onj ,
HEATED FIGHTS FOR THE PENNANTS WILL BE SEEN IN ALL THE LEAGUES; TEAMS ARE GROUPED AT TOP AND PROMISE THRILLS
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Baseball fans seem to have been bored with the eame this season and not to have fathered at the parks
in their usual manner. Whatever may be the cause of the poor attendance, it is sure they cannot blame the league races. It is now to be seen that in the American, National and Federal leagues ana the American Association the first three and four teams at the top are neck and neck.
RED SOX LOOK LIKE BEST BET FOR AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT
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Sam Crawford, Detroit's remarkK able eutfielder. baa .709 safeties to bis credit and, since be is a wellpreserved man. there fa no reason why he should not continue as a regular player for several seasons. He is one of the contenders for the 3,000-hit title of Hans Wagner.
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COOMBS AND WOOD COMEBACKS OF 1915
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Jack Coombs Cleft) and Joe Wood
During the present baseball season there have been two .notable
of stars of years ago coming to their own again. Jack Coomb, formerly, of the Athletics, is now pitching winning ball for Brooklyn, and Jo Woodof the Boston American is pitching with the same effectiveness he J tm X91Z after havins experienced two poor sersons.