This was the infield that became famous as "Chicago's stone wall," that name being given to it for the reasons that the only way that a ball could be gotten through it was to bat it so high that it was out of reach.

The members of that famous infield were Williamson, Pfeffer, Burns and myself, and so long had we played together and so steadily had we practiced that there was scarcely a play made that we were not in readiness to meet.

We had a system of signals that was almost perfect, and the moment that a ball was hit and we had noted its direction we knew just what to look for.

We were up to all the tricks of the game, and better than all else we had the greatest confidence in each other.
I had shifted the positions of Williamson and Burns and the former was now playing shortstop and the latter third base.

At third base Burns was as good as the best of them, he excelling at the blocking game, which he carried on in a style that was particularly his own and which was calculated to make a base-runner considerable trouble.