The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-29
Statistics Indicate That niur-
les on Diamond AreMOre
Than on GridirOD.
! MANY INJURIES DURING
! PAST THREE MONTHS
Ball Players Lose Their Heads
and Slug Not With Fists,
But With Bats.
Tribune Special Sporting Service.

Tribune Special Sporting Service.
CHICAGO, H., July 2S.-The base
ball season is just about half over. In
the past three months twelve men have
met their death as result Of the
game and over twenty have been serl-
ously injured, some fatally. This is
but n partial list, CLEANED from the
various press dispatches from day to
day. And the list of those hurt does
not include the innumerablc broken
legs. fingers. arms and noses received
every week
Just as Bad as Football.
The list as it stands now is almost
as serious rs the one Haunted by the
hystorlcal football reformcrs of last
fall No doubt If another list, telling Of
those who died from running, walking
playing tag or eating too much. were
kept, ii would be equally appalling.
Players Lose Their Heads.
In the Texas State league this spring
an umpire had his skull crushed by
players, who, protesting against his de-
cision, lost control of themselves. The
Iootball reformcrs said that any game
where n man forgot everything but vic
tory, was sure to bring harmful re.
suits. lt is not ON record that any
player on the gritliron has yet been
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Some Fierce Scraps.
On July !, at Cumberland. Md. play
crs in the Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Maryland league got into Il fight over
n decision, Eddie Sapp, a Butler sec
with two bats, \ riot followed, in
which many were hurt. Sapp is still
in the hospital in critical condition,
and some of the crowd are still in
Jail.
AT Bedford, Ind, West Baden play.
er resented the roofing by negro and
n fight followed The negro had his
serious condition. All three fights
were not on the sarl lots, but in or
ganized baseball leagues.
Some Noticeable Deaths.
Some of the more noticeable deaths
during the year are as follows:
John koscielmak, Detroit boy, was
killed receiving battcd ball on the
jaw. lie died in terrible agony
Jesse Robertson. United States sail
OF, died OF n fractured skull at Nor
folk, Va. He was hit with a pitched
ball
Patrick Cosgrovc. Spring Valley, Ill.,.
way of base runner.
Sam Woodward, star player Of the
Georgia Technical college, died while
playing in the Cotton State league. He
was hit on the head by pitched ball
Eddie Gecrs, one of the famous
drivers, was killed by a batted ball
while playing in Tennessee.
Carl Staubcr. Saginaw. Mich,
dropped dead from, over-eXertion in
running bases.
a good dozen men have died from
heart trouble as the result of roofing
at games.
No Fatalities in Big League.
In the big league company no men
have been killed The PLAYERS are
alert and know enough TO keep out of
the way of danger for the most part.
However, many have been hurt
Some Serious Injuries.
More noticeable than the rest are
the injuries of Mike Donlin, out with
a broken leg; Charlie Schmidt the De
troit catcher. with broken ankle. and
90 Kid Elberfeld, with his thigh
ripned open by spikes.
Two pitchers in Pennsylvania have
suffered broken arms in the same
manner. They threw the ball so hard
that they snapped their elbows in two.
The Best People on Earth 90 to
Calder s. Wby9 Because IT has
high moral tone and offers nothing to