Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-06-27 | Page 15 | The Greatest Play I Ever Saw

THE GREATEST I PUY 1 EVER SAW My I.Rfl1 WYATT, CV-yelad'a reat 1 awai Cwtcb-er. I'oeably In la Incident of mtna should h Iahtf4 "preateat ptaya,"' i rather than 'reo.teat pUv." At oar I rate, tha ama In which It occurred attcba In mf mtpd. and tt la worthy ! of note. . I waa with tho Athletic at tha time. Bd Hommel. tha areat knuckl hall pitcher. n a new-r0nr new-r0nr wlih ua. Wa had aeveral i hurler who war no afreat ahakaa at flaldlns. and poaathly th op no-- I Inrf team thouaht that waa afel). Inv with alt of Mr. Mark a recruit ainundemen. A ' Hommel waa pitch Inp aaa?iat DoaeUnd, who had plenty of faat men and Pod hnnlero aiwt lhy tried t bunt Kddle out of th boa. Tho flrat hatamna tapn4 one down th -tblt-4 base Una. Hommel went 1 afir it. ahnped. enatt had It up, and while In a sit tin position buraed t to first ahead of the ma-' I ner The second . man un bunted toward firat. r"-l)ie aot that by a apectacular diva and eurvad It around tha runner lata tha flrat baeeman'a hands. So It went for four fnnlnva. while otr twlrler accumulated seven or eiirht dots In the aealst column. Nona of tho a chance waa eaev, anme of them tremendoualy dlffl-cM. dlffl-cM. hl ha handled all In remark-ahln remark-ahln st via. Then sin that thta form of attack waa uaeteaa. the Indiana switched and bepaa awlnp-Inar awlnp-Inar at th ball. I hav not mentioned thla Incident Inci-dent . aa th preateat pia I ever raw. hecouaa any on of Rotnmel a efforta ml ah atand alona an a ba hall claaalc. fin aa they were. Hut for conaecullv brtlltanc In field-trip field-trip tho pitcher1 poet ton It wa an enc. It must b remembared. too. tht Hommel at that tlm was a younaateya lneperlencrl In fast mmpinv, while ho waa ppoa4 to fa and cany men. The- tell me 1ht. tha oTdtlmere. like Witts and Mln,er Brown. wr wonderful fteldera. but tt hardly eeema poeeth). that thy bad ftay-thlr.p ftay-thlr.p on Kd Rommel Copyrlpht. 1?4. hy Jubllo Lodger l'ompy.