Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-23

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hunting trip with Mascot CAR up IN
the Feather river district.
| At last President Ban johnson OF
| the American league has announced
! that the double umpire system will
| be used in all games of that league
next year. President johnson has
signed two new diamond indicators to
complete his staff.
Frank Smith, former pitcher of the
| George Lukes team, returned to town
| the other day from Yuma and here
after will be on the pitching staff OF
the Salt Lake club, working for the
| company during the week in the round
house department. Smith was consid-
cred one of the best twirlers in the
Independent league and if 1t was not
for the poor judgment of Manager
Lukes that club no doubt would have
won the pennant in the Independent
| league long ago. Smith is 2S years
of age and is seeking his release from
| the Omaha team, as he has had an
/ offer to enlist with the Seals as soon
as lie can receive his clearance papers.
| Smith won six straight games for the
Lules and was sought by Manager
Louis Pitzer of the Order of Pendo
club to finish the post-season series
| in the Independent, but to no avail,
as he already had signed with the Salt
Lakes.
Los Angeles fans will say au revoir
to the Seals tomorrow. The Los An
geles team will leave for their last
games in the north, returning at the
end of a five weeks series. They Will
finish the season on the home diamond.
Probably Hen Berry in his new "cady'
will Join the team and Tom stevens
later will go north to be present at the
final spasms.
lack O'Connell once had narrow
escape from being state senator, and
in California, at that. But the push
of the north gave him cold shoulder
and he never made the trip to Sacra-
mento. Hen Berry maintains that he
would be a much better statesman
than umpire, and so stated yesterday.
Jack has been trying to figure out
whether this was intended for com
pliment.
Freddie Snodgrass, the former ST.
Vincent baclstop is getting away with
the goods on the New York diamond.
He has been welding the big nit Just
as Devlin Is playing third base ana Is
making good in all stages OF the game
wise how over at Azusa writes
to if.form me that he has made great
discovery It is that Babe Asher has
seen his best year and is all IN. II
YOU do not believe it, just look up his
record" he says. At the time the
Azusa lad made his great discovery
"Babe" Asher had pitched ,r IweHay. foo Z.
seven games and lost five. The tact
that no other pitcher who came to Win
| fer in Southern California made sucn
a record goes to show that my frlend
from Azusa has his wires crossed ana
does not know what he is writing
about.
New rules regarding the purchase py
major league clubs of players from
minor leagues and one regarding the
worlds championship series We're
adopted by the National baseball COM
mission the other day. The f1rst is rule
AZ. and provides that no major league
club player can be sold to MINOR !
league club with an option to be paid
later unless the consideration to be
maid by the minor league club for the
major league player is at least $500.
The following additional detailed
| rule to govern the contests for the
worlds series was also announced:
"Rule 17.-Neither one of the contest
/ ing clubs shall be allowed |to pay a
| bonus or prize to any or all Of its play
arc who may take part in the series,
| either before or after the game has
been completed, and the commission
| will retain the certified checks which
| each c1lb is required to deposit under
r,1le 6 until such time as they may be
| satisfied that there has been no Vlo-
Iation of this rule, then said certineo
| check shall be cashed ana creulteo 70
the funds of the national COMMISSION
| Here are some baseball records OF
the past twenty-five years. They are
interesting and some will make the
nlavers and teams of 1908 hustle TO
eclipse them:
Greatest number of runs IN game
Chicago VS.. Cleveland, July ~ 1904
35 to A.
PLAYER who played in greatest num-
| her of games-Barrett OF Detroit, 162
Greatest number of times at bat
Brown Of Louisville, 1881, 65s times.
/ Greatest number of one-base hits
Keeler, 1897, 243.
| Greatest number of chances accepted
| by cher--SchreckensosL OF Aln-
i letic, 1905, S99.
! Greatest number of chances accepted
Nv first asemen--Donohue of Chicago
/ Americans, 1907, 1886.
/ Greatest number of chances accepted
bv second basemen-Evers of Chicago
Nationals. 1904, SS9.
Greatest number of chances accepted
i by tnlrQ DdSelucH-- " A'OSNOi'
Nationals, 1899, 6Ol.
i Greatest number of chances accepted
by shortstop-Allen of Philadelphia
/ Nationals, 1892 955.
Greatest number of chances accepted
by fielders-Slagle of Washington, 1899,
424
/ Greatest number of games pitched
Hutchinson. Chicago, 1892, 20.
Pitcher giving greatest number of
bases on balls-Rusie of New York,
1892, 261.
! Greatest number of stolen bases
| Stovey, Athletics, 1888, 1866
Longest game, major leagues--Ath-
letics VS.. Boston, at Boston, September
/, 1906, twenty-four innings, 4 to l.
Longest game, minor leagues-Fargo
VS.. Grand Forks, July 1S, 1891, rs in
nings, 0 to 0.
Greatest number of championship
games in one day--Three games, Sep
tember /, 1890, Brooklyn VS.. Pittsburg;
! score, 10 to 9, to 2 and 8 to 4.
Largest attendance, major league
October 10, 1906 New York Nationals
VS.. Philadelphia Athletics, worlds
championship series, 1882.
Largest attendance, minor league
September 1, 1907, at Columbus. O.,
Columbus VS.. Toledo, 20,531,
Unassisted triple plays-Paul Hines,
| Providence, r. L. May 8, 1887; Harry
O'Hagan. Rochester, at Jersey City,
4 August 18, 1902; Larry Schlahy, at Port
land, Ore, June 10, 1904
, Greatest number Of consecutive games