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Show POCKETS BARRED BY CHRIS VON DERAHFi j Cincinnati Won From St. Louis Through Odd Accident. Ball Hit by Visiting Player Got Stuck in Pocket of Carroll and Batter Scored Before Sphere Could Be Extracted. . Way back in 'S!) Cincinnati was playing play-ing one afternoon with Chris Von Der Ahe's St. Louis aggregation on the St. Louis grounds. Cincinnati had a man on first base and two out, and needed two runs to win. Cliff Carroll was playing center field for the St. Louis nine. The Cincinnati Cincin-nati batter hit a slow grounder to center, cen-ter, and Carroll ran up to gather it in. The situation was ticklish, and Carroll Car-roll prepared to field the ball carefully. He squatted down to meet it, and got his hands in position. Just before it reached h!ra the ball hit a clump o-f dirt and bounded high. Carroll grabbed for it with both hands, just as it hit him in the chest. Somehow in the struggle the ball was wedged into the pocket of Carroll's Car-roll's uniform shirt. It got in there, and Cliff had a terrible time trying to get it out. The runner stopped at second long enough to see that something was the matter. Then he started for home, with Carroll still digging away at his shirt pocket. The result was that the runner got home safely and Cincinnati won the game. Von Der Ahe almost had a fit. He fined Carroll fifty for putting the ball in his pocket and made a rule that thereafter no pockets of any kind should be allowed in the uniforms of his team. |