St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-20
cURIosIriES % BASE BALL.
Features of the Past seasonRecalIed


while playing with the Ithica club at Utica
on Oct. s. Pringle is heavy weight. and
strives TO pitch the sWIftest possible
bail. While doing this, and endeaFOrihg
to curve the ball. he not only
broke his arm near the elbow, but dislocated
his shoulder. The hrst instance Oh record
OF Il base ball player committing suicide oc-
CURED AT Grand Rapids, Mich, on March
%. when John L. Sullivan. the third base
man OF the Grand Rapids club of 1888, who
was native Of Rochester. \. y, in a
lit of despondency destroyed himself at
his residence in that city. The one promi-
nent pitcher who played himself
out in 1886 was one-armed Hugh Daily.
The good effect of plucky rally in the
closing part of an uphill contest was Illus
trated on April y at AEdOyer. NJ lss. in
match between the Phillips academy and
the Boston college. When the Boston
players went to the bat the score stood TO
0 against them. They then spurted at the
bat To the tune of five safe hits, which
Welded them four runs and the game.
The largest aSsemblage of spectators ever
seen at "a ball match was that gathered at
the Polo grounds on the afternoon OF Dec
Grafton day. when 30 709 people paid adj
mission and some hundreds "a ned en-
trance over the fence. IN the morning
s. 600 were present, 50 that during the day
over 80. 600 witnessed the contests Inc
largest number ever gathered on the Brook
lvn club grounds at Washington park on
two consecutive DAYS were present on
last Good Friday and the day following,
the turnStile count exceeding Il, 600 for the
two days. 1t is rule at most Of the pro-
feSsional ball games that wien a ball is
knocked over the fence the boy who returns
it to the grounds is given free admission.
On April 2, in game at Washington. a
foul ball was hit over the fence, and al once
the betting crowd in the grand
stand began laying wagers as to
whether white boy or a negro would
bring it back. On inquiry it Was found
that a little girl had captured the ball. and
the result was that all bets were eff. Dur
ing the progress of a game at Ihurl0w,
Pa. last April, a tornado carried the grand
stand over the fence with several people IN
it. Strange to say, no one was seriously
hurt but hundreds were badly scared. The
finest grand stand yet built on ball ground
is that constructed last spring on the st.
George grounds at Staten Island. 1t is
3-stOry building, 400 feet in length by 90 in
breadth, and will seat over i've thousand.
There is also a dining room on the ground
floor, 200 by 50 feet, which viii seat LOO
persons.
A remarkable game was played at Savan-
nah on March 20 between the Pittsburg
club. Of the American association and the
Savannah club. of the Southern leagua.
Not run was scored on either side uD To
the close of tue fourteenth inning. LII the
fifteenth the Pittsburg team got a single
i tnf
of the season among the Southern cluOS.
A novel struggle took place at Wash ngron
park. Brooklyn. April S, between the Brook
lyn team and the Long Island Athletics.
The four BROOKLYN batteries played the
match. Terry and Schneider being the first
battery for Brooklyn. and Harkins and
Clarke the second. the two Brooklyn bat
tereS. ToOle and Oldield. Porter and Nc
Caulev. playing on the other side. The
former won. The worst defeat inflicted
on an intercollegiate association nine by q
{ League club this season was that given by
the Philadelphia club on April ,. when
they whipped the Brown university nine 81
to 0. One of the noteworthy victories OF the
Yale college nine was that scored al
New Haven on Apr!l 7. when the col
legianS defeated the Eastern league pro
fessiOnal team of jersey City by , to 0. The
leading tea,uS in the league and American
association for 1856 are those whose play erS
were nearly the same the last month of the
season as the first. Wluie the defenders in
both organizations are the teams who were
changed So often during the season that
scarcely an original player renamed to
finish. The monthly record Of the league
season shows that Detroit has the best record
for one months play. they having won
% out OF 20 in May and 20 out
of % in July. ChicagO's bsSt reco ri
was in Nays out of y; New York ;
best was IS out of u. in June. and Phila
delphia Il out of a in July. Boston's best
was Is out Of %. in July: St. Louis best
Is out of y, in August; Kansas City's best
0ut of "A. in August. ana Washington 5
best S out of p. in September. The Baitl-
more club played eight tie games in 1856
they leading The Association clubs in this
respect. singular feature of the
contest between the mines Of the
Pennsylvania university and Columbia
college at Philadelphia on April Il
was the fact that the PENNSYLVANIA nine
made no less than II runs off 10 safe hits.
while the COlunbiaS scored but runs
though they made - base hits. The Met
rupOltan team went 10 Newark April 10
3 pay lIlt view d. h team. III tilV iOuA III
ming a dispute arose over decision made
by Umpire Dave Pierson. during which
Burns. OF the Newark club. assaulted Eos
ter. of the MetrOpol tans. and he
would have injured him had not Rose
man. of the Nets coliared him and brought
him to terms. The Nets then left the field
and the two clubs did not meet again dur
ing the season.
In the American association Atkisson, of
the Athletics. disposed of the MetropOll
tans without their max ne single hit on
June Is. Terry, of the BrOokyns, pitched
out the st. Louis champions without Their
making a single safe hit on July a. and
Kilroy did the same thing at Pittsburg on
Oct 6.
The best managed teams in 1886 were
the Chicagos and PhiIadelphias. while the
worst were the New Works ana Wash
ingtons. The best managed of
the Americans clubs was the
ST. Louis. and the poorest the Baltimores,
one leading and the other being the last on
the list. The Southern league season of
1886 was made a failure, financially and
otherwise. by the participation OF pool
gamblers in the work Of the games. The
Brooklyn club benefited financially this last
season by seventeen Sunday games at
RidgewOod, and at no game was there less
than 5000 people present, the highest NUM-
Der exceeding I, 900.
BE Musf Have Been Tickled.
Texas Siftngs.