The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25
Brooklyn and Boston Are Scrap.
ping to Keep From Being
Last in Race.
VETERANS HEROES OF ONLY
QUADRUPLE PLAY ON RECORD
Old-Time Slugger Still Holds
the Worlds Record for
Batting Average.
BY MANHATTAN.
Tribune,

BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
i NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-The Brook
lyn and Boston National league club.
are now engaged in a desperate stng
gle to attain seventh place in a column
of eight.
AT this writing BROOKLYN is seventh
struggling bravely to remain so. Bets
are being made that the Trolley Dodgers
will end the season as the target car
riers In the league procession.
10 charge baseball team with signal
tapping is one of the most serious com
plants possible
Charges and counter charges of sys
TENS whereby visiting clubs were handi.
capped by having their signals revealed
TO the home team 8 batsmen were cir.
culated freely last year in the Ameri-
| can league, that the New York Ameri-
cans were taking unfair advantage of
the Chicago Americans but no evidence
could be found of such questionable
work
The first case of this alleged tipping
reported in the Eastern league in some
time came in the game between the
Newark and Buffalo teams recently and
IT was McGinnlty who preferred the
charges The Newark pilot was doing
the pitching and the Bisons were driv-
ing his curves to all points of the com.
pass. in fact, "tbe Iron Man. was
batted out of the box in the second in
ming. during which the home club made
six runs.
Uuder the circumstances little faith
was placed in McGinnity's charges, His
complaint would have carried weight If
he had secured proof that the Buffalo
club was indulging in unfair tactics
AS far as baseball history goes, there
was but one quadruple play ever made.
According to Ben Dodson. an old time
fan, who was present on the memorable
occasion, it took place in New York in
1876 and saved a game for the old Net
ropolitans from Chicago.
son this occasion New York had the
best of it believe, 8 to 3-apd it
seemed cinch to put ont the game even
and ninth III bunch. But the Chicago
team rallied. Bing. biff. went rho hits;
before the crowd could really wake up,
Chicago was driven in five ruBs.
Quadruple Play.
1.-TWO men out, bases full. and four
to be put out ere the seance could legal
" close The batsmaD drove a liner
knee.high across the diamond. Covering
short for the Nets was a little fellow
named Gaskins.
"T'he ball ripped at Gaskins, who held
it. He sprung to second getting run
ner who had left the middle station. He
fired TO first, and the man who had
been there was caught, The first base.
man threw to third and runner who
had been sliding for the plate arose TO
learn that he was out and that the quad
ruple play had been completed.
Gaskius wore no gloves.
Richmond has the record batter of
them all His name is Eward G.. Tate.
He is now police sergeant.
Pop Tate has a batting average
that puts the rest in the shade. It was
the Old Virginia State league and Tate
made his highest average in that league
playing for >orfolk in 1883. He par.
ticipated in eighty eight games and
hammered the ball for an average of
.531.
In those DAYS the Virginia State
league was factor in baseball and the
teams in that league could tackle any
teams PLAYING the game. And Tate was
the best of all when it came to honorsr
triples and singles. :,
fPop' started playing professional
ball with the Norfolk team, Then IT
was that he bstted the l.all for .53l. He