The Alaska citizen., 1912-07-08

Tigers finally strike tnelr Slrlde. the teams will bunch up more. By July 1 it ought to be q magnificent race
 At last l have the facts of that dog game. James Mcintyre. Of the Bradford. Pa, StarRecord has kindly furnished tie iull details, and it will settle d lot or discussion. Johnny M0Graw has for years told his version of the dog game. and claimed ;H have played in it. But he didn't The reason McGraw did not play in this game is found in the following extract from a box score:
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 He was let out i,y Clean because of that just short time i.efore the dog game the story of which follows.
 In lH9D Bradford. Pa. and Qlean, \ .I. were iH the Western New York and Pennsy1vania league with Erie, Jamestown. Meadville and Dunkirk. The two towns were great rivals and wer" running neck and neck in the league race. TMrnty miles separated the towns. and whenever one team played in the other town II meant big eXcur- sion and bundIe Of greenbacks put up in bets. Az q rule one man was trusted with all Of tile money, and he sought out the treasurer of the other towns betting fund and the money at evens ting fund and the money ht eyens was laid down in one lump. In this particular game each club had it's star battery Bradford. Alex. Jones and Hess. and Clean, Artie Agan and Doyle. The pitchers were very tight. and at the end Of the nine innings the gain. was tied up. By tilfs time nearly $1O,V00 had been posted in brtR, and the vast crowd on the Clean grounds was wrought up 1o tremendous pitch ot excite ment The tenth. eleventh. twelfth and thirteenth innings went by and still no result, and then the four teenth loomed up with Clean at the bat in the first half.
 But I'm getting a little ahead of my story not having prepared this dope shipShape. so to speak So much depended on this game that the club owners dispensed with the services of the regular league um. pires and put ill two proHinent citi- zens who had been amateur base ball players in their younger days. One Of these was Tony Iullane's old catcher iu the Oil and Iron league Charley Purrington. and the other Eugene r. Whltcolnb. now q wealthy Pittsburg gas magnate, and a partner Of T. x Barnsdell the mutimillionaire gas operator
 III the fourteenth inning. with two down, Big Dan Shay hit safely. Catcher Doyle of the Cleans came up and hit a Texas leaguer into left Eddie Brynan. who had pitched in the 'SOs on AnEOn's Chicago team, was playing the field and he ran in 10 get the ball. Ordinarily. Shay. who vas big and lumbery, would not have gone any further than second base on the hit.
 But on the left field foul lines stood a mass of spectators. Among them was Joe Asselto an Italian cigar and tobacco merchant, and by his side was his cocker spaniel. As soon as Doyle's hit struck the ground, the spaniel made dive for it and beat Brynan to it. The dog seized the ball in his teeth and dIl lO W cll u 1ldSLs W llSlt- " llO playing center field for Bradford. Bill Armour now owner of the Tole- does was playing right and he and Brynan and Wright and Shortstop Barney Mclaughlin all tried to get to the dog. but the dog eluded them all and ran hither and thither. Of course. Big Dan and Doyle ran around the paths and both scored, At first the crowd was held spell bound with amazement and then gave way to the widest kind of d demonstration. The umpires were fairly mobbed by the contendng players, all but Brynan, who kept chasing the dog, trying to recover the ball When the kioodle got tired playing he dropped the ball and Brynan fielded 1t in. but alas, it was too late.
 The umpires didn't know what to do. The contending captains ar