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Show SAY DOOIN'S INJURY WAS DUE TO HIS . HABIT OF BLOCKING MEN AT PLATE VETEBAW PLATER BAT PTOIXHi' MAKAOBB ALWAYS BT HTM- aur ox BABiLDfB nr ntomr or flats to pbbvrnt BoomiKO. Chicago National league players quote that "I told you ao thing whea they apeak of Charlie Dooia'a injury. Prank Chance and Joe Tinker aay taey told th Philly leader he would get it aome day if ha dldn t ehange his style of blocking men st tha plate. Dooia'a baaaball religion ia to prevent pre-vent rnnnera aeariag. When eatehing be feela it hia duty lo keep every ma a from getting to tha plate by everv fair meana aad he takes so thought of him self ia doiag ae. . " With a runner coming from thirdjind s poaaible chance to retire him, Dooia seta himeelf aa the baeeline ia' froat af tha plate aad eteve there until the manor ma-nor aueceeda in acoring or ia retired. More thaa once the fiery leader has beea cautioned that eome day a runner run-ner would go through bim epikee first, and kia reply haa alwayi been the tame: "I 'II be there when he cornea." Tbe seeident to Dooia was tba result of hia- effort to block Oakea off the plate. Ha act himself ia the path of the fieeiag runner, who did go into him feet firat, breaking hia leg. Philadelphia play era describing tha accident aaya that Oakea' leg eeemed to be ia between Doin'f feet as he reached for tba plate. Dooia, being act eolidly for tha throw, refuted to give aad inch and something had to break. It waa Dooia 's leg. Tbe accident reealla that to big Larry McLean, the Cincinnati backstop. Me-Lea Me-Lea ia the biggest man in baaeball. He was injured aa ths result of s colli col-li sine with Roy Thomaa. McLean, like Dooin, waa aet la froat of' tha plate, hia feat spread to braea him, whea Thomas came in standing ap, running full tilt into tha gigantic catcher. Thomas bounded backward from tho collision like a rubber ball aad the playere harried forward, thinking he waa eerioualy injured. Inatead, it waa McLean wba aaak ta the ground with a brokea kneecap, Thomaa escaped es-caped without injury. Both of theee accident seem to bear ont tba theory advanced -by Dooia that the plaver who throws himeelf upon the other fellow escapes injury, while tha man who eete bimaelf ia tha victim. |