The Washington times., 1906-09-02
STON LOSES TO PHILADELPHIA IN RECORD SMASE1ERt
CHAMPION ATHLETICS TAKE
TWENTY-FOUR INNING GAME
Harris Weakens in Final Session of Breaking Stug
gle Before Eighteen Thousand Frenzed Fans and Re-
vived Boston Drops the COntest-BnIliant Work.
By JAKE MORSE.

BOSTON Sept. !. - The longest and
doubtless the greatest major league
baseball contest ever recorded came OF
on the Huntington Avenue Grounds in
this city this afternoon between the
Bostons and the Athletics Of the Ameri-
can League. the latter coming out VIC
torious by a grand batting rally in the
twenty-fourth inning. in which they
scored three runs. Final score, 4 TO /.
The only league games In the memory
Of the writer 10 go more than twenty
four innings were q twenty-five inning
game at Fargo. y. D., on July Is, 1891
and one on May II. 1871, when the Bos-
ton Nationals and the Manchester IN
HJ mines played twenty-four innings
In neither Of these games were any
runs made. Last year Chicago and St
Louis went eighteen innings IN the IA
tionaI League, the former winning ? to ].
and IN the American Philadelphia and
Boston fought out a twenty-lnnlng al
fray. In which the latter won by 10 :.
Coombs. the Colby College boy, and
Joe Harris were pitted against each
other Two Of the youngest pitchers ln
the league. and they stuck 10 their posts
through the whole of the long ordeal OF
more than four and three-quarter hours
The Maine boy won first honors, pitch
ing a very fine game. showing splendid
headw0rk and getting out or a number
Of the highest Of tight places. lie
helded his position superbly. Harms
also did splendid work and he too did
some great fielding and both men were
aDplauded heartily inning after inning
for their splendid work
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Three times In the game Manager
Mack instructed his pitcher 10 give
strong Boston batsmen their bases ana
10 his strategy was due the victory IN
no small manner To the catching OF
Mike Powers no little credit Is due
His backstoppiuE was gilt-edged and
his throwing almost perfect He tire"
out I'VE men iu the attempt 10 steal
second. Great fielding ny Parent and
Ferris helped to stave of the result
Great ball players as they are, they
fairly outdid themselves, making sue
cesslon Of phenomenal stops and plays
that fairly brought down the house
The Boston outneld was kept busy,
but so was the Athletic field, and in
the iuield Cross Murphy. and knight
showed 10 fine advantage Knight
Murphy. and Schreck, OF the Athletics.
and Parent. Grimshaw. and Stahl OF
the locals. were the only ones who sue
ceeded IN making more than one hit Ia
the game Knight made the splendid
record OF five successive clean hits. two
Of them good for three bases. but, oddly
not one Of the hits figured in any Of the
scoring.
schreck did not get into the game AN
Ill the eleventh inning, and il proved
a mighty good thing for the Athletics
that he did. as he made the drive that
sent the winning run over the rubber
and he played the bag as II il were
the easiest thing he ever tackled Fred
DIV Parent led the locals IN stick work
and he banged out four, three Of them
in succession. one being good for two
and one for three bags. Grimshaw and
Stahl also hit we'll Stahl put Freeman
in the game in the fifteenth inning TO at