Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-12-02 | Page 8 | Many Peculiar Plays Arise in Baseball World

Many Peculiar Plays Arise In Baseball World A southern league fan who iead the storj recently of peculiar plays made j in the Dixie circuit offers another which he thinks odd enough to get mention. It came up in a game atj Nashville between Memphis and ' Nashville. With Lewis and Walsh of! Memphis on second and tirot and one OUt, Dehaney came to bat. He hit I one through the pitcher's box a mile a j minute and it looked to be good for a single al least. Then something happened The hnll scooted under the second base cushion like a rabbit going into ittj hole ana j stuck there. Second Baseman M . 1 of Nashville ran over, reached under ' ihe bag, came up with the ball, I touched second base, thu forcing Walsh on his way from fits', an 1 threw to first, getting the hail there before lehane could make u a dou -j blr play retiring Ihe side Bill Brennan wa. umpiring and 1 he called the two runm rs fut he cried: I've been umpiring fOi twent; years and that Is the first tini" I ever saw the second base bag mnk an as-1 sist." 1