The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-04

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There Il, no patron OF the national
game In Cleveland who Keeps u closer
watch on record. breaking performances
tain Major William J. Gleason, says the
Cleveland Post. The major 10 a verltn-
BILE encyclopedia OF information on OK.
.tra-innlng games. long hits, batting rec.
ords. great pitching tests and other re.
mnrkablc achievements on the diamond.
He. with but an occasional reference to
his book OF records" recently recalled
q -hand a quarter OF n hundred sensa-
tional occurrences on the diamond dur
Ing the past twenty years. every ono
of which ls OF interest to the base ball
enthusiast, Here Is the list:
Twenty years ago. May ], 1877, the
Hst. Louis Browns and Syracuse Stars
played a 15-!nnlns o TO 0 game.
Eleven days later The Harvard Col
lcge II Manchester clubs played a 81
inning 0 to 0 game at Boston.
On July &, 1878. the New Bcdtords and
Harttords played three nine.inning
games In three different citles--New
Bedford, Taunton and Providence. The
New Bedfords won all three gamcs-15
to o. to l and Is to3.
Not q run was scored In q 1~3-lnning
game between the Holyoke and Harvard
College teams at Boston June &c. 1889. /.
George Gore made the circuit Of the
bases in "a sseconds at San Francisco.
November Q; 1879.
Tom Lynch, the present umpire, shut
out the Baltimores without q hit while
pitching for the Nationals, May "a, 1889.
Johnny Ward, pitching for the Provi-
dcnce team. performed the most re-
markable pitching featNon record. June
II, 1880. He not only shut out Buffalo
without a hit. but did not allow n bat
ter TO reach first.
By.making IL runs In the ninth Inning
the Atlantics beat the Nets at New York
City August .. 1881.
On May %. 1892, Fcnnelly. OF the At
lantlc City club. made six hits, for 10
bases, with the KeystoneS.
II was on August II, 1882. that a home
run by Radbourn vas the only run made
In IN 1S-inning game between Provi-
dcnce and Detroit. This Is considered
by manylthe most remarkable game on
record.
The East Saginaw team made 20 runs
In this sixth inning Of q same with the
Dayton club. April 81. 1851.
tir September 6 OF the same year the
Chicago club made is hits and IS runs
intllG eevcnth inning Of a championship
game with Detroit.
In 4 game with the Allegheny team
at Cincinnati. September 12, 1883, the
Reds made 81 hits, FOR q total of 81
bases
NI.J,h .yo,n. ,,d r,cL,,n ruatt..
only. one hit vas made In a game be-
1SSI.
On September s, 1854, Davis. OF the ST.
Louis club. struck out "a men In en- anna
teur game at Cairo. i'll.
At Dayton. Ohio, September 10, 1854.
was played the quickest game On rec
ord, the nine innings being completed
in Just Al minutes.
Charley Bennett. while catching
Wieldiran, of the Detroit eam, Septcm-
Der &c. 1854, put ont ~ memo being
on strikeS-and threw out tho other
three, an unprecedented fielding rec
ord.
The Baltimores not only failed to
make q hit OF Smith. OF the Newark.
y. j., team, October ,. 1885. but went
out In one-two-three order for nine in
niRgs.
on May Sc. 1856, Van Haltren, pitch
ing In Oakland, Cal, struck out the
three first men at bat on nine pitched
balls.
On July 81 of The same year the Bal
timores made one single off Ramsey, OF
tile LoUisvillcs. In Il innings.
In three successive games at st. Louis,
September 20. q and 90, the Kansas City
club failed to score 4 single run.
October 81, 1887, the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh 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, June S., 1859.
On June 90. 1885. the Louisville team
met its twenty-sixth consecutive de-
feat.