The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-30
ON THE SCREEN Of SPORT
By Hugh S. Fullerton.

instance. IN two cases IN the Vale
! Princeton game the runners had the hall
| beaten TO second base. The catch Was
| made behind them. and IN each case IN"
! runner was touched from behind The
! professional, even OF average ability.
! would have dropped away from the ball
| and avoided BEING touched. Lee Of
! Princeton was tagged out once when
he was entirely paS, the second base
man. who could not have touched hlm
had ne dropped inward.
Coupled with their letter perfect hit
and run play. vas the odd fact that
when they were not playing hit and
run, the runners were not IN motion
when the ball was hit. Twice l'rlnCc-
ton men were forced at second on hits
that the batter might have beaten TO
frst. and one" Holmes of Tale failed
TO get started and WAS forced out on
have been Il hit for Diamond had the
shortstop been forced to throw to tlrst.
Make Good Sacrifices.
The game ran along without scoring.
and. after the sixth inning the strain
and excitement commenced To tell on
the players and in their eaEcrness they
commenced to forget what the coaches
had told them To do. Several times out
ficldcrs stopping OF catching the ball.
started 10 make throws wrong and check.
cd themselves IN time. one Murphy or
Yale flashed n brilliant stunt. MagcttS
had singled sharply TO right field and
was running rather SLOWLY when MUIR
ply came UP with the ball. started To
lob n to second. saw his chance ana
flashed IL TO FIRST base. throwing out
the pitcher on clean base hit
Up to the ninth the game might have
been played out OF skull practice les
sen Then en-. k SeyS r HSSsSd s snsLp
Holmes sacrificed in perfect shapc-in
fact every sacrifice was pushed down
perfectly. and have not seen a colicg"
player TAI! TO lay down his sacrifice
this spring-whilc there are three ma
ior league teams VIGOROUSLY weak in
this department OF the game. Diamond
flied out and crane drew pass. the
fourth ball being pitched wide purpose
ly Peters evidently siGnalled that he
would hit the second ball pitched and
Flahcrty and Crane were in full flight
and OF to good starts when nc raped
the ball sharply down TO Trtmolc, who
scooped it psr vert, w. WON
Then came the stroke which gave Yale
the victory. According TO the old-tinre
hall player the only way to make. win
two out and runners on bases. is 20
n'-nt Of the fielder. the hall is hit hard
enough or thc player is not 10" fast.
Many OF the modcrnS insist upon Try
ing for the base nearest the fielder. In
my Judgment. every SUCH ball should be
thrown TO first
T7imble could have thrown Peter out
easily. He scoope,d the tball and without
looking at the runners, tossed IT TO Sec
ond-and Crane. who is fast, beat the
play McPhee then could have thrown
20 FIRST and retired Peters. but he saw
Fahcrty tearing for- the plate. making Il
beautiful effort and he threw 10 the plate
to head off the run His throw beat
Fahcrty q. step Fahcrty went behind
the plate in half side. missed the rub
her and Fisher missed him.
Fisher did not attempt the second
touch and F'ahertyi flcpped back 70 the
plate and was safe
Yale's speed and cleverness in running
with the hit. Scored the tally. I doubt
II there are five players in the Major
Leagues who would have scored as f'a-
herty did in tho same play.
PrinCetops rally. when practically
beaten wIs ora OF the gamcst and hard
est ever have seen. eaten and deS-
perate, they forgot the rules and fought
for q run. They came near. Trtmb.c
smashed a lLDe tly out against the left
cid stands. trying TO atone for his blum
der. but Crane grabbed tho ball With
two on bases Mcnamara slaShed vi
cious line smash at third base. The ball
curved over the corner OF tho bag,
struck rout by lnchcs-and on the next
effort ne struck out.
Copyright 1920 by The Bell Synd cate)