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Record Four 3Bs for Drury.

Fred Drury—the great young second base man for the Leicester City club, not the old second base man who passed through Walsall and Exeter City five years ago—is proving his worth as a “star” for the Foxes, a batsman with a high degree of bat-to-ball contact, and with speed to waste. Yesterday he gave a sterling example of both skills against Bolton Wanderers at Burnden Park.

Starting the match against right handed pitcher Harton, Drury batted from the left side and smacked his first threebee of the game, scoring on Wood’s ground ball out to the second base man. After grounding out to start the third innings, he came up again to lead off the sixth and made his second 3B, and made his second run as Clark hit a fly ball that was taken for an out. Drury then faced right handed relief pitcher Naylor with two out in the seventh innings and made yet another “triple”, his third of the match, and this time with Sylvester on the bases who scored. That blow matched the First Division record for most 3Bs in a single match, held by literally dozens of other batsmen throughout the four decades long annals of the League.

Despite all this, the visiting Leicester side trailed Wanderers going into the top of the ninth innings, which Reeves started with his own 3B and, after two outs were made, sub batsman Moran drew the Foxes level with a home run. This brought up Drury once more, this time hitting from the right side against left handed pitcher Rudd, and who hit a towering fly ball that hit barely fair and bounced directly to the right fieldsman Deverell that would normally be a certain twobee, but once the “dust had settled”, the speedy Drury was instead standing on third with his fourth 3B of the game. Only two other batsmen had matched this feat: Oliver Hendry for Chesterfield in 1904, and Willie Kerr for Derby County in 1898, both clubs in the Second Division at that time.

Drury did not plate a run, nor did Bolton in the bottom of the frame, which led to extra innings. In the eleventh, Drury came up once more, from the left side once again, and hit a high fly ball to the fence in right that was taken for the out. Campbell made the winning home run in the bottom of the eleventh to give the victory to Wanderers, who were only too magnanimous towards Drury’s accomplishment, which they gladly accepted as opposed to holding Drury hitless but instead losing the game.