In the meantime, the umpire had asserted his authority at first base, and given the St. Louis players one minute by his watch to resume play.
Willis got tofirst base on an error by Warner, but Denton hit into a double play, Ellis to Douglas to Kopf, and the inning was over.
Four in number, and designated as First Base, Second Base, Third Base and Home Base.
When the amendment was presented at the convention of 1869, a delegate wanted the rule applied to all bases, but the majority preferred to test the experiment as proposed at first base.
Blake caught a foul fly off the bleachers; Trace made a beautiful catch; McCord was like a tower at first base, and little Dean went through the last stages of development that made him a star.
Thrice Salisbury threw to MacNeff to hold Reddy close to first base, but he only wasted his strength.
Homans ran down to third base to the coaching lines, and Ray went to first base.
Under ordinary conditions you have a clear view of every player, the batsman, unless he is left-handed, is facing you, and the run to first base is made directly in front of you.
A left-handed thrower will seldom make a success as a ball player except as pitcher or on first base.
He will be obliged to stop hot liners with one hand and often while on the run to make an accurate throw to first base.
Janet was away like a shot to first base, past first and safe on second!
Carol was edging away from the security of first base.
Or, if a fair ball is struck, and the ball is held by an adversary on first base, before the striker touches that base.
Mac stepped forward in the box, dropped his bat on the ball, and leaped down the line toward first base.
When he got to first basesuddenly he bolted for second, and in the surprise of the unlooked-for play he made it by a spread-eagle slide.
Mallory, at first base, snatched at it and found only the air.
But instead, after waiting with admirable nerve while ball after ball shot by him, he tossed aside his stick and trotted to first base on balls, amid the howls of the visitors.
Then the side was out, and Bob trotted to first base.
In another moment the game had begun again, Warner having taken the place of the injured left-fielder at first base, and Sleeper having gone to bat.
To be sure, Apthorpe put a fly where the Durham right fielder could not reach it, and so got to first base, and Riding advanced him by a neat sacrifice; but he had no chance to score.
At the foot of the terrace, just back of first base, a striped awning warded off the sunlight from a little group of professors and their families.
I saw that Durham was playing her professor of mathematics on first base, and asked him if there wasn't anyone in the faculty who could take Willings's place.
In such cases players running bases shall return to them, and may be put out in so returning, in the same manner as when running to first base.
Instead, however, he knocked two fouls, and then sent a liner down to first base, which the baseman caught with ease; and that ended the chance for scoring.
No ball seemed too hard for them to get, and even when a Giant got to first base he found it difficult to advance against the accurate throwing to second of the Jap catcher.
The inning on each side was exactly alike, with the exception that our third man out flied to first base, while your man flied to third.
Sterling was up next, and on the third pitched ball he managed to plant a short drive in left field that got him safely to first base.
He planted his feet wide apart, and connected with the first pitched ball for a hot grounder that got him safely to first base.
Twice they got a man on first base, but each time Bert struck out the following batter or only allowed him to hit the ball for an easy fly that was smothered without any trouble.
Out by first base, Norton, who had never been on the coaching lines in the five years he had played with the Bears, was ranting and screaming like a wild man.
How in the eighteenth inning with a runner on first base, the mightiest hitter of the Pennsylvania nine drove a hard hit ball to left center.
Hal started after the ball, grabbed it on the bounce with one hand and without stopping raced to first base, which he reached just ahead of the runner, making the third out.
Well,” said Hughie, “I think I can see a team out of this crowd all right, though I am not quite sure of Dill at first base.
The feeling of nervousness was shared by Hughie and the coaches over the one weak spot, first base, in what would otherwise have seemed to him a championship team.
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