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Show I A PLAY THAT FAILS NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN H By TOMMY CLARK. H ! rpHERE is one play In baseball that M- I when tried fails on an average of M '. , nine times out of ten, and yet on the M ' possible chance that the runner may M bo cut off at the plato It Is attempted M almost whenever the occasion offers, M i ? on the chance that It may be the one B tlmo It is successful Tho play comes M up with a man on second and a single Is made to the outfield. Nearly al-M al-M : ways the outflcldor takes a chance and M heaves tho ball homo, with the result M that the batter goes to second, from M where a Mnglo would scoro him. whereof where-of os If ho wcro held at first it would take 1 two safeties to send him home. It 1 looks liko tho better play to throw to M m, second, but, as has been said, the flold-H flold-H m or is generally willing to toko the B V chance. jl In a recent "Washington-Detroit B l gazno tho play was tried seven times and was a dismal failure six. The one time, though that It succeeded It was tho factor which probably saved tho game for "Washington. Bush. Cobb and Crawford singled in succession Two runs had been made, and Mo-rlarty Mo-rlarty was on Eecond w hen Loudon drove the ball to center for a slashing single. Milan got the ball, and, making mak-ing the throw to the plate, got Mo-rlai Mo-rlai ty at the plato by four or five feet-It feet-It was the one time In tho game that the play was carried through, and that one time more than counterbalanced all the other failures It I3 the ono chanco for which players aro always trying Taking that play as n general thing straight through tho season, It Is likely that it more than evens up In favor of tho team at bat There Is not much chanco to got the man at tho plate trying try-ing to score from Gecond on a single, and the throw home always places the batter making the hit In a position to score on another hit, when if ho had been held on fiist It would have taken two to send him over. It would appear good baseball to make the effort to get tho runner at the plate only In the last couple of Innings when It appears that the run will win for tho side at bat. "DASEBALL Is an odd sport When-ever When-ever a player comes through with a bit of daring base running say takes two bases on a short single or an infield in-field out. he Is a marvel. Let the same bucko on the following day fizzle on the same stunt for which he was lionized lion-ized on tho prc lous afternoon and "he Is a wotnot, a goofie, a boob with a wax mustache. Yet baseball ia a game of chance. It Is tho chanco taking tenm that generally WI113 out In the long run. |