Show I 1 RABBIT SETS PACE FOR BALL PLAYER the middle west has added another interesting item to tho the baseball chronicles of tho the year with a story of a rabbit which acted as aa pacemaker for a batter who had driven out a homo home H run the incident occurred at st cloud minn when Th thielman lelman of tile the homo home team lifted a long hit bit to center geld field which started a rabbit hidden bidden in the long grass the tour four legged spectator of the game frightened by tho the ball ran toward tho the infield reaching second base just ahead of thiel man touching tho the bag tho the rabbit headed tor for third and in order to avoid the bleachers turned at that bag and crossing the home plate pinto disappeared under the grand stand thielman Th lelman was right at the rabbits heels in the race tor for tile tho plato plate and was credited with a circuit hit but the scorer refused to give the rabbit a home run claiming that it had not touched first base |