Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-02-01
BASE BALL NEWS.
SOME INTERESTING POINTS IN
LAST SEASONS GAM ES-TME
NEW QUICKSTEP TEAM.

bOME 1NTEREoE1N0 FOINIS IN
LAST SEASONS GANES-TME
NEW QUICKsTEP TEAM.
The Philadelphia Record contains the
following interesting statement OF some
of the remarkable feats in batting dur
ing the season of 1883:
Denny, of the Providence club made
seven successive safe hits, incluiing
three two-basers,in game with semi
professional club, played April IA. In
the championship game between the
Baltimore and Columbu clubs, Septem.
ber 4, in Baltimore, Md, Brown, of the
latter team, made six hits, with total
OF fOurteen-twO home runs, two
double. .baggers, and two singles. John
Reilly, of the Cincinnati club. got in
total of thirteen bases on six hits Sep.
tember IL. An extraordinary batting
feat was accomplished by Knight, of
the Athletic club, July 25, when he
made Ave successive safe hits with a
total of twelve. The first time at the
bat he made a single, the second time
double, the third time a three.bagger,
and the fourth time a home run, thus
accomplishing curious sequence of
hits. His fifth was a two-bagger.
Pieffer, of the Chicago, and Brouthers,
of the Buffalo, each made SIX hits in
six times ut bat, the former being credit
ed with three baser and two double
baggers. Wise, of the Boston, once
made six hits with total of eleven in
seven times at the bat, his hits being
three singles, double and triple
dagger. Iu another game Wise made
four successive twO-base hits.
In the Indianapolis Columbus game,
September rs, in indianapolis, Ind,
kerins, of the home team, out of five
times at the bat made two singles, one
double and two home-ruDs, the boil in
the latter instances each time going over
the left-field fence. williamson, M. j.
Kelly, Powell. Gross, Battin, Dickerson,
W. Gleason, Nicol, Clinton, Fox, Car
penter, G. Latham, Holbert, Farrow, ,and
Walker also each hit safely each OF
their tive-times at bat in champion
ship games between profes' onal clubs.
Hankitson, Caskins, Wolf, aud T. Man
ming each ice made four hits in four
times at bat, and p. Hines, Denny Start,
Cassidy, Pfeffer, Williamson, Anson, w.
Gleason, w. Latham, 7. Mansell, Ger
hardt, Hecker, Clinton, Henderson,
Gross, Calvin, Shafer, Stricken, Morill,
Brady, Dunlap, Welch and Sommer
also once accomplished the same feat.
Charley Jones, of the Cincinnati, and
Ward, of the New York, each once
made four hits with total of eleven
the former ny three triPie- pasers, anu
ouoie-oageer' anu the ia.t' py twoI
nome runs, uoup.e anu q single
broutners, OF the bunaio, ana fwlhg,
OF the new YORK cup, succeeded IN
.e niakine one SAFE nlt az least III each OF
hihe'eeu CONSECUTIVE games. furce,',
OF the fnliadeiphla, succeeded IN max
ing MS IN seventeen successive games,
aou hroutners maze iorty'six saie MUS
WIN total CT sixty.seVen IN nineteen
CONSECUTIVE cnainpiohshlp contests.
Casklns maze four OF the SIX sale hits
efeoiteu W the ne" Iork Clup, Juiy
~, on inc pitchlhg OF uaI'ib.
AN unusual NUMBER OF nome runs
were inaue iast season. otoVey, OF the
Athletic cluD, plade twenty nome runs
inc'naihg tne longest mus ever maze on
Ihe ot, Louis, Ath!etic anu Ti'Ispure
grounds. Jones, OF the U nclnnatl, and
Hornuhs, OF the bostohs, alone accom-,
pllshed the !eat OF knocking the Dall
over the ieIt' heid renee OF the new
grounds III Baltimore, Nd. Dunlap, OF
the cleveland, mace the hrst nome run
OF the season at Kecreatlon Park, June
y, when hese mt the ball hyfng TAR over
the fence and through window OF the
little brick church.
The longest hits OF the season In New
YORK, Boston, Butalo, Cinclpnatl,
Baltimore and Louisville were made
respectively by Ward, Brouthers, HOr-
nuhg Comlskey, Stearns and W hitney,
the last named knocking the ball an
estimated distance of2Oo yards from the
home-plate. The feat of making two
homerurs in one game was accom-
Pllshed once each by L. Brown, Stovey,
=. Hines, Hotaling, Ward, Ewing,
kerins and Morrill,. Ward made the
winning runs in the second and third
championship games between the New
York and Boston clubs ~ home runs
off Whitney in the ninth inning, his
feat of three home runs in two games
off such pitcher being q remarkable
one.
AS the base ball season for 1884 ia
only about two mouths OFF, lovers of the
game are beginning to take an interest |