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Show FEATS ON DIAMOND Remarkable Throwing Stunts Rehearsed By Baseball Scribes A recent discussion of great Hi renin ren-in feats performed on the diamond with a group of New York baseball writers as the debaters, brought .1 recital of what two of thoe present agreed upon as the most remarkable feat they ever knew of being performed per-formed by an oui fielder Joe Birmingham, Bir-mingham, now manager and then right fielder of the Cleveland team, was the hero, and the play was mad? Ill St. louis In 1907 when one of the two scribes were scriveninu In the Mound City and the other was touring for a Cleveland paper. The Browns had two men on bases, George Stone on third and Jimmy Williams on first, with Kobe Ferris at the bat There was one out and one run needed to tie the score. It was the seventh inning. Ferris hit one on the nose with all his weiglu behind it. The ball whistled for 'he right field fence. Just inside the foul I line h looked lik- a homer and WI1-! WI1-! Hams began sprinting for second The coacher at third, however, instructed I Stone to play it safe and wait, for he I was none other than Jim McAleer. who knew Birmingham and saw him tearing for the fenc e for I he Hying sphere. The righl field pavilion, as the old nark was arranged, made impossible to see Birmingham from the press box. But in a moment the scribes saw McAleer start Stone, a sprinter then, on his way home. A' precisely the same instanl the ball was shooting In on a dead line, it reached Nig Clarke's mitt In time for him to tag Stone out. McAleer'8 respect for Birmingham's I FILIPINO BALL TEAM, WHICH IS TO MEET OUR BEST Here is a photograph of the star ball to?sers of the Philippine Islands. The team is composed ot the best players of all the native organizatins, and in the buncb are a lot of classy diamond stars. Some real good baseball nas been served up by these little brown nephews of your I'ncle Snm, and as a team composed of the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox is agi : to meet them in the "round the world" 1 trip next winter great interest Is taken tak-en in the far eastern exponents of the national pastime. There was considerable doubt as to I I whether this team would be out j classed by the fast American teams I In the Manila league, but all doubt I has long since been dispelled, and I tbe Brownies are now the undisputed I I baseball champions of the far east. H |