The national forum., 1910-07-23

On the afternoon of July 19 Of last
year, in the second inning of base
ball game between the mines repre-
senting Cleveland and Boston, played
on the grounds of the former team,
Wagner, the first batter for the visit
ing team, reached first base on an er-
ror, Stahl, the second batsman,
bunted safely, advancing Wagner to
second base. With two strikes and
three balls listed against him and
with the 10000 spectators tingling
with excitement, the Boston captain
gave the "hit and run" signal The
next ball pitched was met by McCop-
nell's bat with tremendous force and
was driven over second base in man
ner that BODIED i'll for the home team.
Neal Ball, of the latter nine, was play
ing second. The moment the leather
sphere left McConnell's bat the for
mer jumped back Of the base, leaped
into the air, caught the drive with one
hand, regained his feet and touched
second base, stepped quickly to one
side and touched Stahl with the ball,
and thus made the most thrilling and
spectacular unassisted triple play
chronicled in the annals of baseball
Balls feat was the second of its kind
ever recorded in the history of the
major leagues, the first having been
to the credit of Paul Hines, of the
Providence (Rho Ge Island) team, who
had performed similar exploit, Curl
ously enough, against a Boston team
thirty-one years before.
Each passing season testifies to the
fact that the national game is a sport
full of unexpected thrills. That these
thrills are as common to the amateur
as toathe professional / contestaj is to be
appreciated from the record of Geo.
Bowen, Of the Northside Club team,
of Noblesville, Ind, who, in game
played last season with the Black Dia-
mond nine of the same town, struck
out twenty-four players and allowed
only one hit. In professional base
ball, on August 21 last year, William
Mitchell, pitching for the San Antonio
team against Galveston in a Texas
League championship game, estab-
lished worlds record by striking out
twenty batsmen in a nine inning
game. In collegiate sport a record
was established last season in the
game between the mines of the Naval
Apo do ne hn TIpi ttty ~
land when Anderson, of the latter
team, struck out twenty Annapolis
players, and Meade, of the Naval
Academy, succeeded in eliminating
fifteen. Here was total of thirty
five strikeouts in single game!
In the Tri-State League, on August
19, last year, the Lancaster nine
made thirty-two runs and thirty-three
hits off pitchers Stillman and Gray, of
Johnstown, in regulation game, no
player on the Lancaster team making
less than three hits. One of the most
wonderful feats recorded in baseball
chronicles was accomplished last sea-
son by Harry Krause, the youthful
left-handed pitcher of the Athletics in
the American League. Krause won
every one of the first ten games he
pitched upon his debut in the League.
This included three victories over the
champion Detroit team, which team,
incidentally, succeeded in scoring but
one run in the three contests. In the
ten games Krause was scored on only
four times, six of the games having
been shutouts. His first defeat Of the
season occurred in an eleven inning
game with st. Louis.
In the game between the Boston
National League team and the Roam
oke (Va,) nine last year outfielder
Bates, Of the New England team,
brought the spectators to their feet by
knocking out two home runs in one
seventh. The most spec
tacular game in the matter Of length
ever recorded in the minor combines
was played last season between the
Decatur and Bloomington mines in the
so-called Three-I League, when twen-
ty-six innings were chronicled --
game almost three times as long as
the game usually runs. The lnrsert
game in the history of the Northwest
ern League was played last year be-
tween the Portland and Vancouver
teams. 1t lasted for twenty-five inn
ings
One o. the most sensational after
moons in minor league baseball in
many years occurred on August 2S,
1909, In the New England League,
when the Lowell and Haverhill mines
net in a double header. Duyal
pitched both games for the former
team and won both. Each team was
with triple play. In the
first game Lowell batted out seven
teen hits and thirteen runs against
two opposing pitchers. This is the
first instance in baseball chronicles of
two triple plays in one afternoon. A
week previously to Duvals notewor"
thy effort Jack" Taylor, the we'll
known veteran pitcher of the Dayton
team Of the Central League, pitched !
and won double header against the !
Terre Haute (Ind.) team. What was