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Show GREATEST PLAY I 3 EVER5AW; I TOLD TO !IIusbrTon; By JOHN KLINO. Premier Catcher of America, and Who la Regarded by Critics as the Greatest One the Game Ever Haa Known. ' Mike lieiilln. who wan then with , Now York, ma le what I think was the : neatest play I ever saw. lie ma le H aitnlnst the Cuba In 1'.'"S In n r.iiiio ' bat seemed In ii c.e the pennant ...ee. and he beat us out of the name ' by It I hao M en a lot of n i , taeular rall ie s an. I throws, but Hint one b. at anytime I eer saw, I u of e,iirse nnlous In win the c.iuio b, e.ni-e we wi-le batlllnc (, r Iho .i I. riant, and the a.itiis ha. I a i-:i:bt a, ,.in I. ik.. oi, r us. Tie wire l.iiiiiim in by on,- mn In Hie el.-blh Ititiini:; e koI tn In, tl on bases with only one out. and It lis,ke, as If we uuubl Kiab the nn rlbt tt.iie. There was an Immense crowd 1 lou the play monad,, but Hie le-hl was Icar except tor ii hunch of ,i datura , who had rome In nt tl nor on the ' niibt Held foul line They Were piled 111 WlUllll II few feet III,, no. j III that elublh iniiliiK Iho rrowd was r.lKlnu In cIiimt to ihe llae and a ! tew were nn fair nroiiu,l strung aloir Ihe bli;li hlcaelier barrier. Tini er was j in bat and he was lilttliiR haid. II"! I rmiKlit tho ball aipian-ly and ilrove It 1 IiIkIi ilonn the foul line, nut more than I tell feet "l,o Ihe boull lnry. It look, 1 ten tliotlKiiml to nnlhlli,; that llonll'l nor anyone ehe could reach the ball, iiiol that It would mi Into the irowd ! Mid settle tho (Mine. Ilolillli c:iine raeliiK nlmia the febl. s,rlni!rn os )u.r, ns he rnuld .11,, I stralcV at the bleai Ihtk iui.I the crowd. Tin- sperm ,7 rrL., laO JOHN KLINO. I tors began to separate n bit. an, I with it urent burst of speed he lure rlnht Into them. Ilia left hip nn, slioul ler scraped the fence us ho leaped, all, I hu Iwlsted and tinned Into the crowd ns he cmiKlit Iho ball. The rhlcimo run-nora run-nora were of course on llielr ways to Ihe plate ns hard ns they rnuld run. Hut nfter Dunlin made his marveloin catch he mndu the part of iho piny that I believe whs the ureaiest of all. The runner who ha, I been on aerond ba.io had played the ball safely, tnie Ini! Just enoiiKh distance to enable him t.) score If Dunlin lost the ball, or to not back If he eniiKtit It. The other runner already was across tho plnle, and had taken too many chances. Aa Driilln raiiKht the ball ho whirled Into In-to the crowd. It looked as If bis piny was to throw to second, a shorter and t-asler throw; but like a Hash he anw that the runner rould return to ac-mil ac-mil while the nihi r runner would have to hurry to net bark to third, lie irrnnit out of the crowd and shot to third base on Hie (trst hound and le nt the runner by a few feet, siivIiik the came for New York and almost kIv-hip kIv-hip tho (ilanis the pi nnnnt. (Ci.pl-rlelit, mil. by W. U. Chapman ) |
