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Show fAMOUS DoNtlltAD PlAYS on Major Iiagdi Diamonds i(Xu.-A,tyrrj AT flvGu J. fuu?mv By LARRY DOVLE. Captain and Second Baaeman New York Qianta. Who la McGraw' Ablest Lieutenant and One of tb Greatest Players. Tin re U one thing that makes bll player rorer than anything else. ml tl, at Is when he pulls off a play that tie Hunks a about the wisest and latunriest he ever tiinile, and then have ume teiiow rtos htm and nmke htm look ..s If he was Hie worst bolii-heiid .In tl.e l.iiHinriK You know there la a IsMiK nui.iiig the players thnt you Irsn t i nu ll a l.inl base runner on tho lm-rv .Hid theie Is a lot of truth In 'It. In fa.t Ii Is the smart ball player who makes the worst blunders, anil I know si-irral really clever men who hale l.en.nin known na boiieheada linply because of the way things turned out, j There la one play that I always will I remember. I don't mind telling It uuw, sinre we had rather sweet ro-Triik-i. on the team thnt pulled It oo 'me, hut for a couple of years I used .to boll over every ttme I thought of It. I mnile the play In a game sxalnst the ChlriiKo I'll!. back lU 1VU8, when wf VrlN Larry Doyle. (hey nosed us nut nml won th championship, whlrh we nil thought should have belonsed tn us. I nuuls the play just at the time It hurt us orst, and when I made It I thuuiiht t was pulling off a ulco little lilt of work. I was on second Imac. no one ns out. and another runner was on third; so, na we were only two run to Iho bad It looked as if we would tie It tip and probably win out right there. Naturally we were hustllnii and fighting for Ihnse two runs, ho-causa ho-causa we felt that If we tied the Cubs Miiilirwsiin, who was pitching, could I), in t linn. The batter lilt a medium , ibiitt fly to Pherkard. who wint over , rlitht nloiigsldo the foul line to rnteh It. The crowd was nlong the base 'lines nnd out In left, and I went bark, touched second, nnd stood there Watching lo see whether he could .make the cntrh Ho made It nil rlvliL Just at the edge of the crowd The ready to Blurt for home the Instant the hall hit ghnckard'a hands, nnd It looked as If there was a chance to throw him out at the plate, although he waa fnst. Rherkard waa hand! appod by th fact Unit the crowd ao close to him. and the moment he caught the bnll the runner started home at top speed I decided If Sheckard threw to the plate I would go to third on the Ihrow. nnd I watch-d watch-d him cloaely. llo Jumped clenr of th crowd, swung hla arm and made 't throw. I rnme up tho line as ' s I could scoot, half watching Inward the plate as I ran to see If the DU went wild so I could make turn and score on It. Fifteen feet 'orn third I heard the roar her yell, "d looked There was Htelnfeldt J"th the ball In his bsnds, and befor I could check myself he touched me, "ever evea giving mo a chance to '"de. One run scored, but we never fit any closer and they beat ua out a Ihe score stood. I went lo the bench Mllng mad. thinking Rherkard had brown wild to the plate, and Bteln-,(lt Bteln-,(lt had pulled down the ball Aa a , "attar of fact, be swung as If throw-I throw-I to th plate, changed the dlreo . t of the throw while bis arm was Jlnglng and trapped me. I never rga him until w beat th Cubs I t fall. j (Copyright, ULt. by W. O ChapmaaJ I ii i i i |
