The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1898-03-17
oDDINCIDENTs IN BASEBALL
A Veterans Scrapbook Furnishes q List Of
Notable Games.

a Veterans Scrapbook Furnishes q List Of
Notable Games.
The following bits were taken from
the scrapbook of an old time enthusiast
by the Cleveland Post and give some of
the notable incidents of the past history
OF baseball:
May l, 1877, the St. Louis Browns
and Syracuse Stars played 15 inning
o to game.
Eleven days later the Harvard college
and Manchester clubs played 81 inn
ing o to game at Boston.
On July 4, 1878, the New Bedfords
and Hartfords played three nine inning
games in three different cities-New
Bedford, Taunton and Providence The
New Bedfords won all three games-15
to o, to l and Is to 8.
Not run was scored in a IS inning
game between the Holyoke and Harvard
college teams at Boston, June &c, 1889.
George Gore made the circuit of the
bases in IA seconds at San Francisco
Nov. 8, 1879.
Tom Lynch shut out the Baltimores
without a hit while pitching for the Ma
tionals, May "a, 1880.
Johnny Ward, pitching for the Provi-
dence team, performed the most remark
able pitching feat on record, June II,
1880. He not only shut out Buffalo
without hit, but did not allow bat
ter to reach first.
By making / 1 runs in the ninth in
ming the Atlantics beat the Nets at New
York city Aug. 9, 1881.
On May 30, 1882, Fennelly of the
Atlantic City club made six hits for 10
bases with the Keystones
1t was ON Aug. II, 1882. that home
run by Radbourn was the only run made
in an Is inning game between Provi-
dence and Detroit. This is considered
by many the most remarkable game on
record.
The East Saginaw team made 90 runs
in the sixth inning of a game with the
Dayton club, April 81, 1888.
On Sept. 6 of the same year the Chi
cago club made IS hits and IS runs in
the seventh inning of a championship
game with Detroit.
In a game with the Allegheny team
at Cincinnati, Sept. IL, 1888, the Reds
made "a hits for a total of "a bases.
With Mountjoy and Cushing pitch
ing, only one hit was made in a game
between Cincinnati and Toledo, Oct.
81, 1888.
On Sept. 8, 1884, Davis Of the st.
Louis club struck out "a men in an am
ateur game at Cairo, Ills.
At Dayton, O., Sept. 10, 1884, was
played the quickest game on record, the
nine innings being completed in just At
minutes.
Charley Bennett, while catching
Weidman of the Detroits Sept. 26, 1884,
put out % men-20 being on strikes
and threw out the other three, an un-
precedented fielding record.
The Baltimores not only failed to
make hit off Smith of the Newark IN.
J. team Oct. 8, 1885, but went out in
one, two, three order for nine innings.
On May 80, 1886, Van Haltren, pitch
ing in Oakland, CAL, struck out the
three first men at bat on nine pitched
balls.
In July 81 of the same year the Balti-
mores made one single off Ramsey Of
the Louisvilles in 10 innings.
In three successive games at st. Louis
Sept. 90, 81 and %, the Kansas City
club failed to score single run.
Oct. 81, 1887, the Cleveland and
Pittsburg clubs played a nine inning
game in exactly 60 minutes.
Jack Crooks, then of the Omaha team,
made five successive hits, four of them
being home runs, in a game with the
ST. Paul team at st. Paul .Inne g. 1889.
SADDLES FOR 1898.