Show Ays What ma mai seem sem to be b a a difficult because of ot the rarity field teat feat It It which It I Is performed does Inot not always bold hold true For instance take the triple play un Fines the Inauguration ot of o manor league baseball the play has been mode made only five times peculiarly enough the feat teat was ee performed twice lot lest season eason both times In inC C Boston Unquestionably the Ute triple Vh ph unassisted Is decidedly rare but t not necessarily difficult It J Is 01 Iou that for Cor one player to retire tJI the side Id by mAkIng a G the tho whole situa MUle situation situation 1111 tion n must niu u t be hO more or Ices loss made to order It so happened that I was the In the game at Boston Booton last summer In which First Baseman George Burns Bums of ot the Boston club made his unassisted triple play It ItIs Itis ItIs Is something of ot a coincidence that Burns Burn the trick against Cle CleOland Cleeland eland the club he I Is to play with Ith this year The play came with runner on first and second and Cleveland trailing by several run runs On the hit and run the batter a line Itoe drive directly into Inlo Burns h hands Ho He touched out the runner going to second and then boat beat the runner originally on sec eec second sec second ond back to that base tS I waved tb the third man out out Burns Bums with mth o a smile lie playing Ing over w his lii lA face JC turned to m me and remarked Is Is there an au one nc coo clao I can tn touch to snake make It tour four Burns will tell you that during his career In the major league that he has made hundreds hundred ot of plays far tar more difficult than his triple play yet that I is the one play that will mil go down Into records and stick there long after aner Burns Burna as a pia plater er has be been n forgot forgot- forgotten forgotten forgotten ten ten The really commendable lea lea- tea tea-Iture tore In making a triple play lay un- un unassisted Iture assisted alsted I Is not the execution of ot the tho play but rather the alertness of ot the mind In grasping the possIbilitieS The slightest fraction traction of ot a de- de deIs deIa de IThe Is Ia on such a play would make im- im impossible possible possible the successful completion As A I watched Burns make moke hIstory that Afternoon at et Boston the tho thing thine I marveled st at tar far more than I I tho execution of the pta pIA WM was the WIlT war his Us mind grasped tho the The Tho third third an and final out at second secondi baa base was a rather rether close cloe decision Had Slad Burns Burna hesitated but slightly In InI I his Intention the play would have failed to go gD over ever Invariably In ID It a triple play unIted unassisted It Is II the mental feature rather than then the phy- phy phy 1 execution that Is deserving deferring ot of Of course such uch a play pro pro- pro vI des a big thrill for or the spectator but from a e angle there is seldom eldom anything difficult about bout It The play simply must be made mode to order to go over I I I |