Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-08-29

There Il no snort IN existenos, says
Erank Fern, 10 tA8 NsW fork Aa3 asd
Exprsss. which has hean characterized
by more curious ohanesa, strange osia-
cidences. and untoWArd and unexpeolad
events. than baseball. They abound in
gvary department Of the gams, and IL
Glade its every possibla phase. Nor
have they besn oonfned 70 the iateF
days 0f ball paying, but, on the oon-
traKy. theY have oharaoserized the sport
fFom is very beginning. THUS the frst
game u Which more than nine innings
WeTs required 90 doaida il was played
belWesR the old Gotham and Knicker-
booker clubs of New York, on June
30th, 1854, being won By the farmsr In
sixteen fnninaa The same orRanixA-
lions played Z de game later Ia that sea
son, darkness interFapting L after eaeh
side had made ~ runs In fWalEe In
ningg. AZ that time the club 6rst max
ing q runs Waa the victor, and that
score Waa frsqueatly mada ii one o. tuo
innings OF late years thess extra-ia-
ming games have presented some Of the
most renaFkable features known IN
eonnecsi0n with ball. In LouisNilie,
kv.. July Ssh, 1876. she Loniaviile and
Mutual olubs, after playing fifteen 10
ninRs snd making I've rams eaeh, ,agreed
20 postpone she game until Monday.
July i0sh, when they met again and
we're eomPellsd 70 play sixteen more IN
ninRs. she Mataals finally winning this
thirfy-ons inning game By q SCORE Of
.et1b.
TIE uaost notswoFthy game in the
history Of the league vas that between
PFovidenca and Detroit, played In the
former city August II. 1852. Nos 9 ran
vas made until the eiehtesnth inning,
ana then Radb0urn hit oVsr the ieft
Geld fence, making q home run aud win
ming for Providenoe b. = SCORE u % 0.
THIS vas one Of the lonRest professional
contests on record.
One Of the longest games that ever
took place vas one played n Philadel-
phia on the gFounda Of 0irard College /
between the club Of shAt inslltnti0n and
an amatsur organization known ~ the /
YeaReF, on June -, 1878. Iuaotg-one
innings had - Be played before the I
KaaRer proved victorious BY score of
10 10 7. O'Rrian and Milliaan. the 4
eatohers Of these young teams on taat
occasion, have since hoe9me profession /
Als, and Tor three seasons past have /
played IN the same position With the
Athletics. Bat tue most remarkabie /
extra inning game on re ord vas one 1
between the Harvard College teaui and /
the Manchester IN. H. ciab % Nay II, /
1877, Ia which yeaF, By the way, there /
we're mera of lhaso prolonged coalesis
than In any corresponding period IN she 4
histsry of baseball. Twenty foar n
ninas we're played Withoat . run being
made. As usual In ash games, very 1
soft or dead" ball vas used, ana feW
hits ueFs made outside Of the inheid.
th0aQh TynR. Of The Harv4Fds. struck
two baeReF IN fhe twelfth inning. he
also pat out thirty SIX men, the largest
numbef ever credited % any cue player
in . single Raaae.
The qaiokeat game ever played vas
oue between t-e Dayton and kroutou
Clubs, at Dayton, Gaia, SeptembeF 10,
1884, only forty seven minutsa being 70
quired for the entire nine Innings.
PrIoF 10 1875 there had neEer been q
game ia whieh the entire hine innings
had been played withnut a run having
been scored By eithsf side. and mauy 4
playsrs believed that saeh thinR could
never oouur, ogtna % The liability of
even the best deldera 30 make erF0rs.
o. Juns l9th q that ysar the Chicago
and Hartford Clubs played ten innings
with 8 tie soore Of q. Ih6a. In tue
eleventh inning, q wild throw BY Bar
doek oaabied Davlln 20 score he win
ming run for Ckieaae, and the Only ons
made Ia ths game. eiuco thai ume
there have teen great nnmber OF sin.
liar contests.
Probably 6 great many people have
wondered q gfaat deal kow the word
aCnioaaos frat came 20 b applied 20
tie defeat of 3 base ball nine which
faiis 10 make & single run n an entire
game. Il happened In this wise- On
9uly g, 1870. The Mn8ual Club % heU
YoFk and ths Chioaea nine played 3
matah IN the Iattar city. Ihe Caie4e0
nrcas and publio lid Displayed their
eharasteFisiiB rneeknezs and modesty
prior 70 abs snconntoF b pratEinR iheif
elnb ID the msst fulaome tefms and
boastiDg In the mOat loa3 mouthed aud
arrnQans manner th8t they we're R0ing
% bsat the Matnais oat of tt.sir bo9is
and send them home liks wstpped cuEs
with their eaadal apps1dages df9opiuR 1
betwson their legs When the game 70
suited ia 3 score ef ? - 9 10 favor q
the Msfaals after ntne complete inninRs
had bsen bsayed. psrfect bowl Of de-
Iiehs uens ap from he uhoIe eoanfry
outside 81 ChieaRos and the pagers ane i
psOpia Of sha4 wiila@e mantfesied, = 4
poadbis, even more Disgust snd dis
plsasare than they had doBs suay back /
Il ths siKfiss. uhea tte Nationals q
WashinEf q heAs heir crack eaabs tbs 1
Atlantic A Pbiiadeiphia newspaper
nan waa the hfsi - uss the SeFd '-Chi-
eaaor IL its presant esRri6canes witn
reqaFd % baseoall eamas, and fns apt-
ne9s and satire u g uere - stEtEln9
taas i VS. at 0noa unanimously ad9pted
b. he whole noantrY a. . oisFsE ad4t- /
non 20 the Enelisa lan2aARe. an4 4 /
sea o4me % Be ae1sraiiy naed - enchFa /
and many othsx Qanaea besides bAathsll.
TIE nFs61ass nambeF of EuaB ever
rads d 3 ganes i 20. sssred Suns stn.
lea, - tie NIAGARA Cl1b, n h1taio.
aaatus4 10 Coiambt4a. also e thai cstys
ake laassF naaking onig 70. Eha Ni4g
aras na6s - ia shsir nTsi inning 4nd 3
in ihsiF eighth.
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