Show This T his Outdoes Famous F antous Fred Merkle Merkie Play By Dy International S Suffolk Ya Va March 13 Gab Gab Gabby b by Street major ex-major league catcher catch catch- er or who will win manage manago the local team leam in iii the time Virginia league this year ear says that the strangest play he be ever saw happened while lie ho was waa catching for tor Washington in a agamo game gamo at St. St Louis St SL Louis had bad us beat 3 to 2 and there were two out In the ninth said Street Washington ton runners were on third and second and two strikes on Dave the Washington batsman bateman The Tho next strike came camo over and Sheridan called it a strike The ball whizzed right through h Hack Sp Spencer's Spencers mIt and hounded bounded up against the tho grandstand and then shot abet off art at an angle while tho the chubby Spencer pursued it Both Bothof of the tho Washington runners on tho tue bases scored casU easily But all the time Altizer refused to leave tho the plate He was In a no ahot hot argument with Sheridan and insisted that the ball wasn wasn't t over the plate and was two feet wide In the meantime Spencer got ot the tho balL Th There re was io 20 o chance chanco to get either of the runners at the plate but he ho fired tired to first and retired Altizer It made mad a the last out of the tho game and and Altizer's failure to torun torun torun run cost us the two runs and lost loet tho the game gamo for tor Washington And tb they y talked about Merkle |