The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11
SOME ACCIDENTS
 ON HE DIAMOND At Least Ten Deaths During 1910 Baseball Season ALSO MANY INJURIES Sliding Causes Most of Them With Collision and Bntted Balls Other Principal Sources of Field
 Accidents
From the Washington Post.

injuries, Iaral aHu OlueFNlSe, put IS nore baseball. In view of the number of persons who play baseball, and the length of the season, as compared to football, accidents in baseball are small in number compared to football; that Is, to the football that was. This years football so far has produced much less in the way Of accident and injury.
 The deaths of the season of 1910 were chiefly among players not of the great est skill, who are drilled in the points of the game, and who have undergone careful physical preparation. Fatal acci- dents are rare on professional diamonds, but there is no lack of distressing acci- dents to expert players.
 In March, in Kittanning, Pa, Roy Dun can, a pitcher, IS years old, was hit over the heart by a line drive and dropped dead. The same month, in Read Ing, Pa, James c. Allen, IA years old, was struck on the head by fly ball and died few hours later. On April Il Rudolph Ruhling, IT years old, of New York, was struck on the side of the head by a pitched ball, went home, and died a few hours later.
 The papers of the next day also con- tained accounts of two other fatalities. Frank Burns, a student at the Rensse- laer Polytechnic Institute, died as the result of being hit on the temple by pitched ball. He was 19 years old and promising student and athlete. There was fracture at the base of the skull and blood clot. William Schmitt, 2S. of l Freeburg, H., was killed by being struck over the heart by pitched ball.
 Batted Ball Kills Player
 Frank Breitweiser, IS, of New York, was killed by a batted ball, which struck him in the temple. He was dead when the ambulance arrived Another New York boy killed was Harry Becker, of the Townsend Harris High school. A scrub game was on and young Becker was hit in the stomach by a liner. He picked up the ball. threw the batter out, but suc- cumbed a short time later and died.
 Charles Moran, catcher of La Porte, Ind, was struck by a bat, and death re- suited while surgeons were operating on him. Texas furnished a victim in Alonzo Crompton, 16, whose death was brought about by being hit by foul ball. On July 2s there appeared the following dis patch from Philadelphia: "A double play which retired the opposing side and won the game for his team cost the life of Albert Stevenson. youthful ball player, who lived in Camden. He died in the Cooper hospital today of blood poison ing after he walked to the institution for treatment" bounding ball hit a pebble, struck his knee and bruised it. He continued playing for week, then went to the hospital
 From Montclair, N. J., in July there came the following dispatch: Baseball has claimed it's third victim in Montclair this year. R. D. Edwards, an officer of the Mapleside school here, is dead as the result of an accident which occurred in a baseball game on Independence Day Edwards was standing close to the plate when one of his teammates knocked out a home run. AS the batter started for first he threw his bat behind him and struck Edwards on the head. Death was due to cerebral inflammation"
 There were several severe accidents early in the season. Winters, Harvard freshman, sustained a compound fracture of the leg sliding to first. Captain Phil bin of the Yale varsity nine, was bad | ly hurt in a game against Pennsylvania at Atlantic City. He smashed ankle bones sliding and did no more playing until June although he was hurt in March, Another player severely hurt sliding was Theodore Hagey of the Hel- | lerstown, Pa, team. He sustained compound fracture of the leg.
 Injuries Play Havoc With Team In the New York Sun on April ap- peared the following from Williamstown, | Mass: "Three injuries in three days have worked havoc with the Williams baseball squad J. Guy Prindle, IS, the most prom ising candidate for first base, was struck by a line drive on Wednesday and is still | in an unconscious state. Paul Otis, '12 a fielder, Is suffering from broken an- kle, and R. Lawrence Oakley. Il, a promising candidate for catcher, today suffered dsocated shoulder
 Stevens and Rutgers were playing game on April 16 when Van Ness, Rut- gers fielder collided with another player in going after a fly and broke his collar bone. In the same game Meigs or Ste- vens broke his ankle sliding home An | accident of a quite different nature and one happening to crack professional player occurred late in April when Owen Wilson, the Pittsburg right fielder, broke blood vessel in. his foot while running. The day following Birdie Cree, of the New York Americans, was knocked un- conscious by a pitched ball.. and was timid at the bat for several weeks after.
 The danger attending sliding was em- phasized when Alonzo Decker, second baseman of the Syracuse university nine,
 broke his leg in a game. Channell, the young outfelder of the New York Ameri- cans, broke his leg sliding to third on
 the hilltop grounds and didn't play the rest of the season. A pitched ball frac- tured the skull of Ben Bowcock, left fielder of the Fall River team of the
 New England league, according to a
 dispatch of April 27. Catcher Simon of
 the PittsbuEgs broke his thumb in prac-
 tice.
 Two players were hurt in the same
 game in Bloomfield, N. J. Charles Egler.
 of the Bloomfield club, had his hand
 spiked at the plate, requiring six stitches
 to sew up the wound. William Bnrdette, Bloomfeld's catcher, dislocated an ankle
 sliding In game in Boston Rube
 Waddeli was hit on the arm by a pitched
 bali and the bone at the elbow frac- tured. Gandil of the Chicago White Sox
 threw out his knee in a game with the
 Washingtons.
 Accident in Hsrvard-Prfncefon Game
 There was a bad accident in the liar
 yard d-Princeton contest of May A. Aron- son. the Harvard centeThelder, hurt his
 ankle sliding, and was out of the game for the rest of the season. Emerson of
 Dartmouth dislocated an ankle. Catcher
 Orndorff of the Los Angeles team was
 struck on the head by ball, causing 5 concusson of the brain. A batted ball } broke the ankle of Joe Wood, the young Boston pitcher and laid him up for sev- eral weeks. Joe Tinker of the Cubs hurt his ankle sliding and was out of the game for several weeks.
 peculiar mishap was that which oc- cured to Jimmy ORourke, third base } man of the Columbus team, who played ] at Yale and later with the New York Highlanders. He was hit on the head by
 pitched ball, dropped like log, and his vocal cords were paralyzed for a
 time Harry Wolter of the Highlanders
 and Otto Knabe of the Phillies grabbed
 at line drives and each had finger broken; this on the same day
 Tn the series with the Giants Ed Swee- | pav tho IJioblapdere' catcher snltt his