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Updated: May 11, 2025
If there is to be a throw to second or third he should know it, so that he can be ready to back up in case the throw is wide or breaks through the baseman's hands. So, too, he must know when to expect a throw if he himself be covering second. In all cases where a runner is caught between bases, the short-stop must take part.
I'll bring my first baseman's glove. Silvey'll find his catcher's mitt. Beat you home! Beat you home!" They were off. Down the cement sidewalk they darted, their quick breaths showing ever so slightly in the crisp air. John stamped up the steps and into the front hall. "Mother!" he called. "Mother!" "Yes, son?" came the voice from the big second floor sewing room. "Where's my baseball glove?"
And now the umpire had upon his lips the fatal words: "Strike three!" For as he looked down the line traced in the air by the ball, he saw that Tug had misjudged it. But for once science meant suicide; for though Tug struck wildly, the ball condescendingly curved down and fell full and fair upon the bat, and danced off again over the first baseman's head and toward the feet of the right-fielder.
But remember how you started in on the diamond as a "green player," with fumbling fingers that missed half the balls thrown to you, with soft hands that stung every time you tried to stop a "hot" ball; how you ducked and flinched when a fast ball came at you, and how you fumbled half your flies and, even when you fielded them, were likely to send them in six feet over the baseman's head.
The "rabbit" bounded forty feet out of his hands! When Snead's grounder nearly tore the third baseman's leg off; when Bane's hit proved as elusive as a flitting shadow; when Lake's liner knocked the pitcher flat, and Doran's fly leaped high out of the center fielder's glove then those earnest, simple, country ballplayers realized something was wrong.
Dick kicked second bag, then darted back as he saw the ball drop into the hands of the Lehigh catcher, who promptly sent it spinning straight into the third baseman's hands. Then Maitland gained first on called balls, and Furlong did the same, which advanced Prescott to third. Now Carson came up with the stick, sending out a slow grounder.
In this he succeeded, and he sent it over the second baseman's head, but it fell short of the fielder. Merriwell came home while Griswold was going down to first. And now it needed but one score for Yale to tie Harvard. The man who followed Griswold dashed all their hopes by hitting a weak one to short and forcing Danny out at second. Harvard cheered their men as they came in from the field.
"Yours," admitted Silvey, reluctantly. "And the two bats, the second baseman's glove, and two fielders' mitts were mine, too, weren't they? Didn't my dad buy 'em for me? Well, go ahead and have Johnny for your old captain if you want. But if I can't run the team, the team can't use my things!" There was an astounded silence.
The effect of the baseman's covering ground in this way is to allow the short-stop to play a deeper field and farther toward second base.
He was close upon third base and going with unabated speed. He kicked the bag -then a warning cry told him that right field had the ball. A swift look over his shoulder, and Prendergast fell back upon third just before the ball dropped into the third baseman's hands. "Safe on third!" came the umpire's announcement. The ball arched over to Dick Prescott.
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