Clipping:Bunting for hits
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| Date | Wednesday, September 22, 1886 |
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| Text | [from the Boston correspondent] Tom [Gunning] had seen Comiskey and Latham making base hits by bunting the ball while in St. Louis, and he thought it a very clever scheme. He has practiced it very assiduously, and on Wednesday he put it into practice in great style. The first time he came to bat he dropped the ball about ten feet in front of the plate and beat it to first. It pleased the crowd immensely, but everybody thought it was a kind of a fortunate fluke. Next time he came to the bat he tried it again, but the ball rolled down towards Mulvey, and the laugh was on Tom. He knew what he was about, however, and the next time he just touched the ball. It landed directly in front of the plate, and as he dashed down to first there was a shout went up. It was the cleverest exhibition of blocking the ball I have seen for many a day. Tom says it was not luck, but that he has got it down to a fine point, and that he does it on scientific principles. If he can continue to do it as successfully he will raise his batting average very perceptibly. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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