| Show I 1 1 headed alays alp I 1 w s I 1 I 1 ofte ana 11 made b I 1 wr S fa rs I 1 no ball players aber exempt from the theaone boneheaded headed play there are some men like john anderson anderon who are asuluk 1 in thinking as a marble slab sla band eaid who win fame by their dumb plays but ille the brainiest brai niest man in the business mahe made them the ball play playa r who is Infallible doeg doe snot not exist after the string of defeats Is gone the greatest of all boneheaded bone headed plays playa was made by anderson when he 11 to steal second with the bases bases full but there are many more almost na as good says a detroit writer nobody would accuse willie keeler supposed to be the brainiest brai niest man in the business of being dull on the field and yet be gave an exhibition worthy orthy of a fence post one day at bennett park a few years back there was one out and a man n on third A run wai was needed to win and it was late in the game sam crawford was at bat and sam rested against the ball for one of his hard drives the wind caught it and carried it away avay over the foul line keeler sprinted after it he caught the ball behind the grand stand it was wag a wonderful eatch catch all right but the man from third walked h home ome as willie hidden behind the stand could not throw at the plate if the wee one had thought a moment ment he would have let it gone as a foul it elmer flick is another wonderful ball player who left his think thinking ilig machine at horne home one lay day at bonnett bennett park it w was as th the e first series of the year here elmer was on second and nag ni g dark clark was on the bag and waiting for tho the man at the bat toi to hit the ball suddenly ho he heard a snout shout and sound of footsteps a slide he looked around and there was flick dusting himself off lie had stolen inird dark clark on tho the ba bag watching him I 1 the crowd thought it was u failure of the squeeze play and aad blamed dark clark but flick admitted afterwards that he forgot dark clark was on the bag bob pulled off one equal equally rich this season at the park with a runner on third colne batter hit a stinging grounder to him at f arst bob in some way figured out that the runner had not been on third but on second so as soon as he got the ball he threw to third thinking the base runner was sprinting for that bag instead of that the tiger was scoring with ease even joe yeager suffered this lapse of mental activity during a game this year with a 1 man on third a sharp bounder booe to joe at third it was one of 0 those kind that hit bit the fielder before the batter can leave the field As there were two to out ont it was a cinch chich to retire the side at first joe however tried to retire the man co coming in from second and the tigers w won on out jim Delelia delahanty Del chanty nty loft left the st louis club and went to washington washing fon as the result of 0 a boneheaded bone headed play against the tigers the browns bad tied thy the score and needed ono one run to win somebody rapped a drive to left fel field d and del started to score slide yowled bowled the coacher co achor but del ran although as though doing a hun der yard dash dashy and was an easy out at the plate mcaleer never permitted him to play again andring was on second hoy were nere hitting hard after a bad chuck by bill coughlin had given them a chance to score some philadelphia batter laced a low one to left held field now there were two out and th the only thing in the world for oldring to do was to sprint as soon a as that ball was hit lie he would have made the plato and won the game with ease it if he had but even at this crucial stage when every tan fan in the stands know knew two were out lie he forgot ho he stopped hair way between third anti and second to see whether jones jonea was going to catch the ball when he saw that it was going safe he fit started arted to run davy shot the ball to the plate and oldring was out by two feet if jones hail had caught it it would have leave been the third abird out anyway and just I 1 why oldring stopped he himself cant explain |
