Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1907-01-02
Deaf \ LIST RECORDED
AGAINST TWO LEADING
NATIONAL SPORT GAMES
COMPARATIVE LIST.


In the last three years that the most
death dealing Of all sports Is football.
For some time the grim reaper's har-
vest ON the rridron was much greater
than In any other sport. but baseball
Is coming fast, and before long may
| take tho .ag. Ut football us the leader
. W this gruosDmc race. From careful
records covering the last three years.
/ II has been found that only two more
pcrsOng were killed In football than In
baseball In that length of time. This
year aitcen were killed either playing
,r watching baseball game:. while the
total number killed at football was
/ twelve. In 1905 twcnty-One were killed
| In football, while only eleven met
death unthc ball field. In 1904 twenty
lue PLAYERS met with fatal accidents
playing baseball and only sixteen foot.
ball players fell victims to fatal foot
BAN injuries. while Tor the same per-
iod forty-seven were killed In base
ball. No noted football stars have
! been killed playing the game within
the last three years, and the same IL
truc nf baseball, yet this year, for the
first time in many years, two minor
league players were called out ut home
plate by death.
Lightning killed as many people nj
baseball games as nearly all other
kinds OF accidents. Five persons were
struck and killed and many injured by
a bolt of lightning near Mobile, Ala,
May q, and two months later. at Man.
itowac. Mich, on July %, five people
were killed and two injured In the
same manner II Is peculiar coincidence
: that both OF these accidents happened
on sunday.
Several amateur and semi-prOfes
) sional players were overtaken by deatl
Ia violent form outside of the bail yard
Peck Butler was killed by the ears a
Jackson. Tenn. last February, an,
William Peterson was crushed In thu
same manner ut Springfield. Ohio, tn
same month. Both were minor league
players. William Thomas, wei
known eastern league player. fell from
steamer and was drowned while com
ing down the Hudson from Providence
to Jersey City. Two college pitchers
were accidentally killed during tn,
year. Herbert Farr Of Beloit. wa
crushed in IA California mine accident
: and Ross Frazer met death by the &c
: cidental discharge of a rOommate's re
volver Frazer was Wisconsin I'm.
vcrsity pitcher. Two Of the most hor
rib!e baseball fatalities of the year oc
Cured In the west. Patrick CosgroyC
an AGED spectator at game In the vi!
! LACE OF Valley Junction. H., wa
knocked down by a base runner an,
killed. one of the players spikes pen
: Grating the brain. Another acciden
of The same kind occurred ut Rolla Nc
: During an amateur game James McKe
. was knocked down by his fellow-play
er. and the latter's teeth sank into Nc
: KEGS skull, killing him almost in
J. staptly.
One OF the saddest accidents of tn
year occurred at Columbia, Tenn
= where Walter Geers, son of that fam
Gus reinsman, Ed Geers, was killed b
Y being hit on the back of the head by
pitched ball. Neither the National no
American league has one fatality I
record. and II there ever was = playn
killed ON the big league circuits non
r. Of the uD-to-date players can remen
Z Der such an accident. Below will u
r. found the list of baseball fatalities "a
: the season Of 1906.
Charles Arnold-Dropped dead viii
= running to base In a game ut Chicag
August ..
Claude Camp-Struck over the hea
= by pitched ball at Mnskogee, Ind. I
June o.
% Patrick Cosgroye-Aged spectacle
3. spiked In the head and killed durir
game at Valley Junction, ILL.,, June
p Edward Dillon-Struck on temple
Il