Show I 1 1 1 1 Ball Plays While Knocked Out You have o heard of or fighters being knocked out standing up but did you ou over o hear of ot a ball beIn boIn boIng bo- bo In Ing put to sleep yet et able to play two innings Inning's although wholly ob oblivious oblivious ob- ob livious of or what what was going on Philadelphia players brought back from Irom the west a n remarkable story of or the twenty one battle bottle between Pat Morans Moran's men men and the Cubs which tho the Chicago t team ain won won 2 to 1 I writes Jimmy Isaminger In the Philadelphia North American Jack Adams was as Morans Moran's catcher In this battle and ind did excellent work Tho The Cubs came near to endIng endIng ending end- end Ing the tho game samo in one of oC the the- extra innings Leslie Mann wa was on third b base e when Charley Charle Deal smashed a bounder toward Watson atson Tho The latter latter latter lat lat- ter knocked it down and It to Bancroft All the time Mann was WM sprinting printing sprint print ing full Cull speed to tho the plato with the Iho therun run that would have ended the tha game Off Ort balance Bancroft whipped a R. fast and accurate pp peg home homo Mann made a 1 long and desperate desperate des des- feet leet first slide Into Catcher Adams It was a n terrific collision collision colli colli- sion nion but Adams stood like made of or stone atone an and tagged Mann Iann who was called out b by tho umpire Immediately Adams placed th the th ball on th the tho ground and sank down The ump called Ume time and Phils rushed to lo the catchers catcher's aid ald After Arter Artera a wait walt of or fully three minutes Pat Moran foran if Ir he could con con- The catcher said nothing nothing- but nodded his head There Thero were two out and tho the n next batsman raised a n foul toul that Adams Adama caught near a box a 0 feat leat that the partisan crowd didn't overlook While Adams was on the bench Eddie Burns went to him and asked him how he felt elt There was no reply and Burns Durns said Go to th the tho devil ll then an and walked away He lie was sitting next to and Gabb Gabby Cabby turned and said B Be a dog and shake It off ott Still no re xe- xe pI ply Adams looked hooked as If It stupefied fled fied but when the inning ended he ho went out on the tho field ag again In and caught as usual After Arter the tho side Bide changed again Adams had a time at that and sent sant senta a n. long liner to tho the outfield that caught and saved the game ame for tor the Cubs Cuba by so 80 doln doing When Adams returned to the bench ch he h. was still acting in a trance and Cravath Cra sought conversation with him again How do you OU feel Jack Jackl asked d Cravat Cravath hIts h. h Its three miles over that way was the cryptic answer That was enough for lor Cravath who went over overto overto overto to Pat and told him that Adams was nuts nute and had better get ou out Tho The catcher was conned Into Inlo goIng goIng goIng go- go Ing to lo the clubhouse several other players accompanying him Eddie Burns BurnH took his place All MI the time Jacks Jack's face was expressionless and pasty past Not until he ho got under the hower did dill his mind begin to clear Then ho couldn't couldn recollect a athing a athing athing thing after aner his collision with Mann At first ho he refused to believe bellevo that ho he had hind caught two Innings Tho The wonder of or it il was waB that he ho could give the proper signs to the pitcher and virtually run the gaff gart although his mind was n n. complete completo blank The players ascribe this to instinct but declare that It was the tho oddest happening hap lisp p pening of ot tho kind they ever er heard of or in baseball S 1 |