Show f Af A k x L LISTEN TO THIS HANK ODAY ODA Y BEFORE YOU PAN EVERS By HUGH S. S FULLERTON Henry 0 ODay n- n cr or of the Chicago Chi cago Cubs with tb bad taste attempts to tal take from Johnny Evers E lea leader er of tho BI Boston ton Braves Dra credit for the famous Merkie play fH says Bays ron made o Evers' Evers tation 0 ODay Day dec lf arca credit for the tho I pla play belongs to Hofman O ODay ay i is I wrong r wrong I would not net deprive o Artio of a abit abit abit bit ol at credit reaH 3 as s I the be facts will sh show w. w The Tho plaY 1 th-t th Dro arose o iu in u Pittsburg Into lato in Evers erg pla playing in second 0 ODay Day umpiring n and Carey an on n first base Caro Caroy forgot to run ran to r Evers grabbed tho the ball ran to second held it up and nd screamed to 0 ODay Day to call ell out O ODay ar was at the water tap taking a drink thinking the Iho game gamo ended and Pitt Pittsburg was n given a a. victory Chicago protested tho game 0 ODay Day ho did lid not seo eo 0 the play and ana tho ho protest was Tras lost Every player on the lic Cub team know knew the tho play pla Three weeks after the Pittsburg play pIa made his famon bono bone oil on tho Polo Polo- grounds tl was at first a runner at third and a Lit lilt went over o second Merkie raced for tho the club club- house honse ODay ODa umpiring with Eraslio I remembered t tue he c Pittsburg incident nt and and ran down toward second base I was as on second base yelling veiling for forthe ho the tho ball Hofman ran to snort short right richt center Cantor grabbed tho tim ball ban and started to throw At that instant I be be- lieve 0 it was Joe M McGinnity grabbed Evers and md trie tried to drag him hm off ocr tho the base Ho Hofman man hold heM tho the ball an au instant not kno knowing to brow because a New York was holding E Evers ers Ho lIo finally threw e evidently to Tinker who was ras running from short across to catch Emslie and was pointing toward going oin to the clubhouse The ball hit Tinker Tack Jack grabbed abbe it and McGinnity and Tom Torn leaped upon him and md tried to get tho the ball Evers E still was ras at second screaming for tho the ball hall tried to throw but toro tore the tho ball from him and md throw threw it into tho crowd back of shortstop Into that crowd leaped and commenced ft lighting fighting with the tho spectator who had grabbed grabbe it Floyd Krob Kroh who ho was WiS not in the Iho g game me ran in inand inand inand and l knocked th the spectator down t grabbed abbed tho ball and brol broke o through the tho swarm reached second base with two or three fellows hanging to I him and finally while whilo hilo bein being jerked backward handed tho ball to It ItIs Itis is probable 0 livers Evors Tinker and all nil taw a aw the play but tho credit for it lies not in the puy at New r e York but hut butin hutin in ill the ono at Pi Pittsburg which bich Ever Evers discovered |