Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-20

the six teams in much the same scoring
humor. Each game was won by a one-run
margin and Philadelphia beat New York
9 to 1, Brooklyn downed Boston 2 to 1 and
Chicago won from st. Louis 3 to 2. Five
of the six teams made two errors each.
There were two / to 0 games on May 9
and each of the winners, Philadelphia and
Chicago, made six hits.
-Four runs was a popular total to win by
in New York-Brooklyn battles. The New
Yorks beat the Brooklyns 4 to 0 on April
IS, but later the Brooklyns repaid the score
with vengeance. Three days / and running,
April %, "a and Is, they ~vanquished their
Polo grounds friends by scores of 4 to L
This same combination occurred three
times en- June II. on which day Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and Boston won from Chicago
st, Louis and Philadelphia, respectively. by
scores Of 4 to l. There was a game on
May is in which the scoring by st. Louis
was out of all proportion to that by Boston
in view of the fact that each made the
sfme number of hits which was ten For
their ten hits the Bostons stacked up nine
runs. while the Cardinals got only one,
st. Louis made only two errors, so poor
fielding didn't figure in the one-sided re-
suit. Poor pitching. more likely, as St
Louis used three pitchers, 1t may nave
been pitching wildness or scattered hits by
st. Louis.
Two ErrOrIess Games.
Two errorless games were played on
May %. which was unusual for one day.
They were between Chicago and Boston
and Cincinnati and Philadelphia. On the
next day Cincinnati made eight runs off
eight hits and with only two errors by
the Phillies. The four total crops out
again on June 5. Each of the winning
teams-St. Louis. Cincinnati, Chicago and
Philadelphia-made four runs. The Chi
Cages played an unbeatable game On June
6. They made fourteen runs. nineteen hits
and no errors. shutting the Bostons out
with no runs and five hits.
Although the Bostons made fourteen hits
on June 10, twice as many as the Reds
made, the latter won the game despite the
hard hitting of their opponents. The score
was 8 to 5 and the Bostons surely wasted
their clouts that day. A week later the
Pittsburgs made ten more tallies than the
luckless Bostons and with the same num-
Der of hits-eleven. The Bostons played a
pretty fair fielding game too. In the New
York-Boston game OF June Is everything
was done on a wholesale scale. There were
twenty-four runs, thirty-one hits and nine
errors.
The Bostons made only seven hits against
the Phillies on July /, but made rare use
of them, for their run total was fourteen,
and with the Philadelphias making only
three errors. The twist taken by the fig
ures on July II resolved itself into four
shutouts in as many games. The New
Yorks. Brooklyns, Bostons and Cardinals
were blanked. The New York ittsburg
sixteen-inning conflict of July 2S was re-
| VnarEahIa for tie all aror,r1 nlouapaag UN.cb
side mad two runs and three eros, and
New York made twelve hits to Pittsburg's
eleven.
Giants as SIuRgers.
The New Yorks were hitting the ball
savagely the latter part of July and the
first part of August. For five consecu-
tive days they slammed the globe for fif-
teen, fourteen, twelve. ten and fourteen
hits in that order, a total of slxty-five.
About the same time the Cubs too were
demolishing the leather. They smasked it
for forty-two hits in three consecutive
games. 1t was a pretty good game that
the Bostons played on August /. when
they made fourteen hits and fourteen runs
and blanked the chicagos. thereby evening
up the IA to o walloping the Ch1cagos
handed to them on June g. Oddly enough,
the chicagos made five hits in this game,
the same number as made by the Bostons
OF June 6.
The Bostons were beaten 0 to 8 by st
Louis on August 10. and st. Louis INDUCED
in a batting orgy which Melted eighteen
hits. The Bostons made six. Boston made
twice as many hits as runs, and 81. Louis
the same. st. Louis made three times as
many runs as Boston and three times as
many base hits. The Pittsburgs and Brook
lyns grappled on August p in a game
which was seventeen innings long and was
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