The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-05
MORE FOR THE FANS
Giants Figure in Four of Five Longest Contests of Past
 Season.
TUCKEYS OVERTIME CAME
List of Extra Inning and Tie Battles. Other Important He-
 suits.

Baseball dopesmiths are still flgur- ing out some of the strange things which happened in New York and elsewhere during the season just past,
 According to tho figures New York figured in four of the Ave longest games" of the year, and although the National leagues extra Inning con- tests fell ten short of their younger competitors total, the Pulllan organl- zation had three contests that went seventeen innings, or an inning longer than any played by the Johnson ag- gregations, There were but flfty-four games that went over the limit in the National to sixty-four In the Amerl- can, and there were but four tie games, as compared with seven by their rivals
 Of the three seventeen inning games, ono was a tie, and of the other two Brooklyn was unfortunate in each Boston and Chicago went to the tie. Pfeister being opposed by Lindaman on June {. Young pitched the first of the other two record breakers and scored tho winning run himself, he being opposed by Pastor ius, Ten days after Donovan's men again lost q long battle, this time to ! Philadelphia, Corridor was the for tunate slabman, while Mcintyre was relieved in the ninth inning by Ruck- CT, who lost the game,
 Tho Nationals had only two sixteen inning set-tos, and, strange to state, one game of each league was a tie. Willis and Wiltse opposed each other in the tic game, and the score ended 2-2 after a strenuous battle, the teams fighting around the top of the ladder at the time. New York also | figured in the other sixteen-inning battle, the Giants defeating Ed Kar- ger, 10 4 after the Cardinals had hammered McGinnity off the slab Young Crandall took up operations in the seventh and tho Cardinals made but one hit off the broad -shouldered youngster from Iowa for the next nine innings Larry Doyle breaking up the game for New York.
 Each league had one fiftoen-innina game. Miner Brown losing the only contest of that duration to Tuckey the young Boston southpaw St. Louis gained one honor, that of winning the only fourteen-inning contest in tho league, by defeating Philadelphia ir the first game of a Saturday double. header, to 2, Higginbotham being the winner and Sparks the loser This was the last extra-inning game of the season.
 Pittsburg, with Camnitz, Leever and Maddox officiating, defeated Bostor with Flaherty opposing them in thu only thirteen-inning game. But f1vt games went twelve innings in the Ma tional, ns compared 10 eleven for tn, American. Of the games that con sumed a dozen innings the locals par. ticipated in three of them, winnins one and losing two of them. Nev York won two, Mathewson winnint both these games for the Gothamites Cincinnati also participated in thre twelve-inning battles, having tn same record as the Cardinals, eacl losing two and winning one. The win ming game of each team was at tn, expense of the other. Twelve fnishet games and ono tie is the record of tn eleven-inning set-tos.
 The Cardinals won and lost one The victory was won by Raymond single and marked Miner" Brown first defeat of tho season on May 29 Sparks defeated Lush in the othe game, l to 0, after Johnny had hell the former teammates to seven hit and struck out nine men. The Ma tionals had one more ten-inning bat tie than it's rival, each league havint twenty-five games that were decided But the National had one 0--0 ti game, Reulbach and Richie battlin without result. St. Louis was tn first team of the season to play al extra inning game and incidental the last They lost the first ten inning game to Pittsburg on the open ing day of the season. They also los ~ NNl"lilllllh StlllN lU thlihBO, iNtul , bach defeating Fromme. Lush turn ed the tables on Sparks and has A l. victory to his credit over the south erner. Beebe also revenged his de feat with Reulbach, winning a ten 2 inning game after the Cubs had tn McCloskey youngsters to l in tn eighth inning.
 Pittsburg had the best record f , winning and losing extra lnnin games, the Pirates winning three fourths of this kind of contests. The won nine and lost three Six of thes games were won while opposed { second division clubs, and half of tn six were won from Boston. Tn worlds champions were close to tn Pirates, they having & mark of .714 They won one more and lost one nor than Clarke's crew. The Giants wer , third, with seven victories and thre defeats, It can easily be seen ho' far the leaders outclassed their an tagonists, as they were the only team