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Rh speeding runner from third and, without a moment's indecision, hurled it to Lanny. And Lanny, dropping to his knees on the plate, got it a foot from the ground just as the spiked shoes of the runner shot into him. Catcher and runner, blue stockings and purple, became confusedly mixed up for a moment, and then Clearfield, seeing the umpire's arm swing backward over his shoulder, burst into triumph and flowed onto the field!