Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-28
THE BSBEE DAILY REVIEW BSBE ARIZONA SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 27 1908

Captain A. c. Ansen of the Chicago club and he secured Larry Coreoran and Fred Goldsmih. two youngsters. from the Springfield, Mass, club with
 the intention of alternating the pitch CTS each day This worked well until Goldy grew indifferent and CorcQrar,
 willing worker, did the bulk of the
 work. pitching fifty-six games to
 twenty four for Goldsmith The next season Goldsmith ook a brace and
 pitched forty-three games, to Corcor-
 ans forty-one for the champion Chi eago team
 In 1883, Jim Whitney and Charles
 Burlington pitched ninety-four of the Ininety-eight games won by the Boston champions Whitney working in Isixty-two and Burlington in thirty two. This year the pitching dis tance was but fortyJiye feet, and the boxmen were allowed 10 oyerstep the front line, so that striite-out records
 were the rule of the day.
 In 1884, Charley Radbourne SUI prised the baseball world by pitching seventy-two games (twenty in sue cession) for the Providence cham pions, Charley Sweeney pitching
 twenty-five and leaving the club in a hun about the middle of the season.
 In 1886 John Clarkson came within two of equaling Radbourne's record
 pitching seventy games for the Chica-
 go champions Jim Mccormick pitch
 ed twenty-eight and John Flynn twep- ty-four.
 Chicago won the championship the next year with the same trio of box men. Clarkson pitchng fifty-three
 games. Then came Manager Watkins of Detroit. who worked nearly as many pitchers as the clubs use at the
 present time setting the pace for the extra number of pitchers for big l league club to use during a season. With a schedule of 124 games and
 pitching distance of fifty feet, De troit worked no less than six pitch games. Lady" Baldwin, Conway, Weidman, Twitchell and Shearn di- viding the other eighty-three games between them The next season the
 original New York giants pulled off
 the championship, working four pitch
 CTS in a schedule of 124 games. Tim
 Keefe pitched fifty games, Mickey Welsh forty-seyen, Titcomb twenty three and big Ed Crane twelve. The
 giants followed this up the next sea
 son, SS, with the same schedule, with
 four pitchers Hank O'Day taking
 Titcomb's place, the latter being a left-hand box man. Keefe and Welsh
 each pitched forty-one games. Crane tYenty-eight and O'Day fifteen Then came the Players League troubles. and Brooklyn won the
 championship, using four pitchers, with a schedule of 140 games. Tom Loyett worked in forty-two, Terry in forty-one, Carruthers in thirty-three
 and Hughes in eleven. Old eco2omi- cal Boston won the pennant in '9l,
 with three pitchers and schedule of TAO games. Charley Nichols pitching lforty-sevea, John Clarkson fifty-one and Harry Staley thiTty-fiye. In 1892. the pitching distance was
 changed from fifty feet to sixty feet, and Boston added Jack Stivetts to the three boXmen of the previous year. John Clarkson pitching sixteen games,
 Nichols fifty-one, Stivetts forty sever
 and Staley thirty-five. Boston pulled of, the pennant for the third time in 93 with four boXmen, Nichols pitch ing forty-eight games. Baltimore
 broke into the running in '94 and won
 out with four boXmen, McMahon be- ing the star performer, with forty seven games. The next year six pitchers were used to land the flag in
 the Oriole City, with Hoffer the
 leading pitcher, with thirty-seyer games.
 Baltimore used five pitchers to win the blue ribbon for the third time | in '96. Then came Boston, winning the pennant twice with but four box men each season. Five pitchers was i the average used until 1901, when the schedule was increased to 154
 games, when Boston won the cham pionship of the world with five pitch l CTS, as follows: Young. forty-three; ! Dineen. thirty-seven; Gibson and Tan nehill thirty-three each, and Winter, 1 twenty. The Chicago white soX won the big honors with six pitchers, Ow-
 en doing the most work. with thirty l five games.
 i Last season the Chicago soX won
 out with seven box men, with Brown
 and Overall pitching thirty-six each,
 Lundergren twenty-eight. Reulback
 twenty-seven, Fraser twenty-two and
 Taylor eighteen.