Show er YZ Z FANO plays MAJOR DIAMONDS yra ii id T aff J buum BY ROGER BRESNAHAN manager st louis cardinals who in 1 regarded as one of the great eft catchers Cat chera the game ever has known after a fellow allow has haa been catching as long as f I 1 havo have he be has trouble picking out tho the worst bonehead play he ever made we all mako make plenty ot of into taken with ou our r heads beads as we well 11 abour as our panda hands an and d far be it from mo me to c claim to bo be an exception there Is one that may not havo have been tho the worst I 1 ever made but it was vas bad enough and it was two seasons before I 1 would laugh over it although it was waa tunny funny i I 1 made it while I 1 was catching for new york years ago we were up there fighting the leaders at the tamo and every game roun counted ted and in that mat series we had bad five games to play against a weak club and we expected to 0 o clean up and get right close to tho the I 1 top it was tile the second gano gane of 0 the series that gave me the chance to pull the play the team we were playing against had recently purchased a player who was waa a magnificent hitter bitter but a slow low on hla his feat feet and among the he play pla era he ha had a reputation of being one ona ot of the slowest thinkers in the business in fact he be was so slow and so BO bad tha he be steal more than one or two bases a year and then you W roger bresnahan ally ily when no one tried to stop him lie ile was so ao bad it was impossible to catch him on tho the bases because he put his foot op afi the bag and staid there probably under orders from his manager who knew hla his reputation for slow thinking and take a chance on letting him make a blunder I 1 wont tell who he was or what club he h belonged to as I 1 dont want to knock him anyhow in the second game of the series the score was 2 to 1 in our favor in the first halt half of tho the ninth antl and we were playing at home it looked so son for as clatty wai was pIt pitching thing and going at ila his best so it seemed as it IF they never could score scora except by accident tho the first man went out and then came the big slow fellow who lilt the ball clear down to tile the fence felice in center held field it would have been a lioma home run for almost anyone hut but lie ho was too slow blow and stopper at second I 1 knew it would bould talio take another home run or at least a double to send him home homeland 1 I decided to try a little scheme schem e to see it if I 1 pull him into to making a blunder I 1 decided to lot the ball lilt hit my mitt roll a few feet away blurt that it had gone toabe to the stand and try to make him start to third ile was GO slow alow that I 1 i bit to fear I 1 did it ran back past tho ball picked tt it vp ip and looked and you may Imag lilo my surprise surp riso to see bee him within ten feet or third and starting to slide ho bid started altti he pitch to steal tart ahr t hite lie ile s scorer doroti in a long fly tied it up tip anahed beat bead is 13 out in the iho tenth the tough part ot of it waa as tbt thai h ho lever stole atole another base that year md ind 1 found out from knoof their play rs that bs be only stole stale because he got nixed in signals algita ls and thought ho he wa elered to steal copyright 1312 by W 0 chapman Chapin ag |