Show THIS MAN DIED ON THIRD BUT SCORED RUN ANYHOW Veteran Umpire Xon In III Wisconsin Tells Story of Queerest Incident Known I to 11 Baseball HIIs bull One of the strangest ot oC known In Incidents In the history ot at the great reat na 1111 national lIonal game of ot has hns been hean told and alI I Is III vouched for by Umpire Ander Anderson son umpiring Wisconsin league games who stopped over o er In St Louis last week In 1903 said 1011 1 Anderson I was um umpiring umpirIng Independent bull ball In Minnesota Superiority of teams between the towns of 11 1 II and Ind Benson Denson was wal walto to bo determined by a doubleheader t Denson July 4 It H was one of at the hottest days 1 have hoyo known Benson Ben on won wo 11 i r game gme 2 to l 1 by b a nuke ply play In the ninth was somewhat disheartened l but for the tho afternoon game they were I pitching a 1 on whom every tan fan wo ld bet bt his last dollar About hout the end of the ninth inning began to show the effects of at the heat the tho score was still It a 1 tie had been In fact since the tho second Inning In the Ih first half hal of oC the th tenth got a n run by ti I base on nn 1111 error and a 11 hit fans looked pretty prellY was wall first up and I 1 could see scebe he was about to the down out mark markWith With two and ami throe on him how eel ho got lucky luck a J biffed a single TIr next man uy was a II player with a head that t he could use He met the first ball fair nil and square and got what hod every appearance ot or being a II homer homel started tell for the plate pint got to second all right staggered a n little on the Iho way In to third l and tell fell flat fiul on the third hag ha ramo camo along and knowing that two runs rims would wIn tho game that ho he could not nol scorn ahead of ot picked up and carried him to home plat ud Ill touched It Ith himself h t I decided that tho Iho two runs counted A doctor came out on tho field looked at nt and anel pro pronounced pronounce l him dead overcome by b llio what I meant when I said saidI 1 I lime of at a player plan who died at third ba o and then scored n a run lun anyway Denver Post |