Show FAMOUS va fJONE HEA D ON major DIAMONDS akk 0 o S J furo 2 12 BY CHARLEY OLEARY nf lelder of detroit tigers who la Is considered one of the cleverest and an d faste 6 I 1 t of the veterans veteran of the A american league the worst blunder I 1 ever rondo made in my baseball career was the result ot of getting mixed up ov on signals and it turned out oat to bo be as lucky a thing lis as ever happened tome to me it la tunny now b but u t it came near breaking my neck aud and herman berman jaw at the same bame time i we were playing boston on oil the detroit grounds late la in the season of 1907 when everyone was scrambling for the pennant and every gamo game was worth a right eye to win our infield had been shot to pieces and we were shirting shit allitt ting Ing every few days at that time I 1 had switched from second over to short because hush bush was waa hurt and who had been hurt and out of it got back at second probably it was the change a of position that mixed me u up P at any rate the score was estr extremely meir close and I 1 believe was a tie at the time as wei afterwards won it by one run ran Sp speaker ealier opened the eighth inning with a two base w wallop llop to alft and it looked pretty tr troublesome for Us Schin tilt was catching and I 1 signaled him to try a throw to catch speaker oft second usually the signal was given by some one else but speaker was taking at long lead and I 1 thought there wit was 9 a chance to nip nii him S X R W charley oleary I 1 saw schmidt give donovan the signal for a pitch out and as the ball was pitched I 1 went back bach of speaker as hard bard as I 1 could to tho the bag my aly eyes were on tho the ball as schmidt threw but at that I 1 bumped up against something that felt like a 9 stone atone wall it was waa schafer schaefer coming crom the other side ot of the bag to take the throw schaefer staggered back and the thrown ball hit him on the shoulder then on the jaw jany speaker had seen the collision and he tore out for third thinking tho the ball would go on to center field it would have had bad it not been for Sc haefs ets jaw ile he staggered jumped at the bill ball and threw speaker out by ten feet at third then he sat down and donovan came back laughing and counted ten before he could get up we never did find out who blundered but it depends upon who schmidt took hta big tip from lie ile evidently got it from so I 1 was to blame declares that he saw we both were mixed on the play so threw to hit schmidt in the middle of tho the back and make the play that way and he bo apologized because hla his throw was afew a few inches high and wide and hit in the jaw instead copyright 1912 by W 0 chapman |