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Show JaMW1MI(lMiHi why he mm "toWhTecond base r-B i 1 1 . ? . ' . ' i . -: " ... - , Ms ' , ' ' 4 i 111 -yMa-g . .-. . .-- - -U'c: V a h '' j Fred Merkle, of New York Clants. I'red .Merkle. the mnn who set the hnsi ball wurld on Its ear by falling tu ranch second and w-ho "enmn hack" liiHt fall by playing a wonderful game ngnliiHt tho itthlnnders, dropped, Into New York I lie other day lo seo Mc draw. j Merkle waa in a talkative mood, and for tho tlrnt time slnro that la-mentalilo la-mentalilo Incldiiit whlrli lost New York the. pennant he gavo his aide of the affair. 1'p to this lime he tine never snld a word, hut It la known Hint he lent in pounds Hiid cnnio near an uttai-k of nervous prostration through worry canned by the national attac k on his so-cnll d "bonchcud play." "I'll tell you the truth abuul that play." snld Merkle, "and I don't think that I wan to hliimv becuuse other bull players havo been doing the name thing for " yearn or more. I was on llrnt hano and Mit'ormlek wan on third. When Al llrldwell ahot thut long single Into center that w on I hi game I atarti'd urroas the grass fol tho cluhlioune. Mathewnon wnn near inu and when Kvera began shouting for the bull ho noticed that something wua wrong, lie cnught inu by thu arm and told me to wnlt a minute. We walked over toward aeiond bum-anil bum-anil Matty spoko lo Kmsllo. "How about thin, Hub?" linked Mai ty. 'In there any trouble wlih tho score or the play?' "It's all right," replied Ktnslle. 'You've got the game. I didn't see anything wrong with the play.' "'.Matty then look mo by lh arm, nnd w wulki'd away to thu cluti houao.' Imrlrg the hearing of that famous rase Merkle wun not called liefnre the coiiimlHiiton, anil up lo thin time he tins never said a Void about the Incident. In-cident. On necount of Harry Pulllntn being present at tho game evldriicv wan not coiiKldered nccenH;ity. |