New Britain herald., 1915-08-20
FAMOUS BONE PLAYS.
Brooklyn Statistican Complies Inter-
 esting List of Plays.

Brooklyn Statistican Complies Inter-
 esting List of Plays.
 Bone head plays have been re- corded from time to time, and it re- mained for a Brooklyn statistican to compile an interesting list of plays that have gone down in baseball his- tory, as bones"
 A number of trades deals and swaps are also included Tn the list for which managers are accredited wltn pulling the Barry stuff. The hst follows:
 When 'Bfn'' Deve1y accomplished the release of George Sta11ings as manager of the Tanks.
 When Fred Merkle forgot to toucn second and thereby robbed the Chants of a pennant.
 When Frank Chance traded "Hal"' Chase for Borton and Ro111e Zleder.
 When "Chubbv" Charles Ebbets re- fused to pay Joe Tinker the salary de- nanded by the latter ro play with Brooklyn. which resulted in the >' making'' of the Federal league.
 When Cincinnati traded Mathewson for Amos Rusie.~
 When Chief Bender refused to come; to New York in 1914 to look the Bos- ton Braves over to discover the bat ters' weak points. Subsequently the Braves won four straight from the Athletics for the worlds champion ship.
 When Connie Mack and Organized Ball permitted Eddie Plank to join the Federal, league.
 When Anderson stole second with the bases full. ,>,
 When Vincent Campbell and whal- ing of the Braves Jumped to the Federal league and lost. their share of the world series money.
 When the Feds reduced the price of admission to one dime.
 When Mathewson grooved a ball for Home Run' Baker in the world series, which the latter knocked into the right field bleachers Tor home ! run. .~
 When the Athletic management re- fused to . permit the Philadelph1a i newspapers to place the scores on their bulletin boards
 When Jack Chesbro of the Yankees pitched a. game in the rain and per- 1nanently disabled his pitching arm.
 When "Cy'' Seymour ignored Mathewson's request to play deep"
  a three bagger over his head and won the deciding game for the National league pennant.
 When Charley Murphy deposed Johnny Evers as manager of the Cubs.
 When Rollie Zieder permitted his famous bunion to interfere with his playing while with the Yankees.
 When Ed Sweeney became walk ing delegate for the Players Fra ternity.
 When Jim Thorpe played profes- sional ball in a minor league under an assumed name and disqualified himself as an amateur.
 When Fred Clarke traded Hyatt, Wilson, Robinson and Dolan to St. Louis for Konetchy, Mowrey and liar mon.
 When Walter Johnson returned that $2O,000 check to the Chicago Federals.
 When O'Mara, the Brooklyn short stop, refused to run out a safe bunt 1 although three of his team mates tried to drag him down to first base. When the Cleveland management replaced George Stovall with Harry Davis as manager of the Indians.
 When Connie Mack refused to sell Home Run" Baker, to the Yankees.
 When Clarke Griffith refused to sign Eddie Collins for the Yankees.
 When Weeghmar of Chicago handed out free passes in his lunch rooms for admission to the CFhifeds grounds.
 When Appleton of Brooklyn threw the ball to Miller Huggins, manager of St. Louis, who was coaching at third base, and allowed two Cardinals to score, thus losing his game.
 When Devore of the Giants per- mitted Evers of the Cubs to work the concealed ball trick on him, depriving the Giants of a run.
 When Horace Fogel tried to make first baseman out of Mathewson. ! Q When McGraw tried to play Benny l Kauff in the outfield, although the ! latter was ineligible according. to the rules of Organized Ball.
 When 'HaP' Chase tried to play shortstop for the Yankees