Evening journal., 1914-09-21
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Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
Please inform me what team Pitts
burgh played July 8, 1912. Also state
score and number Of innings.
FAN.
Pittsburgh played Philadelphia July
3, 1912, and won TO 0 In nine
innings.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL;
Please tell me Joe Woods record
in the 1912 worlds series. p.
Joe Wood won three games and
lost one In the 1912 worlds series.
Sport Editor. EVENING JOURNAL:
With a runner on first, batter hits
a ball into section of right field.
which by a ground rule Is limited to
two bases. Runner on first goes all
tho way home. crossing the plate
safely, whereas he is entitled to third
base only. Should umpire order him
back TO third? Can he be tagged out
returning TO third? A.
Umpire should order him back 10
third, hut he cannot be tagged out
In returning 10 the base.
Sport Editor. EVENING JOURNAL:
Batter hits TO inheld and in run
ming to first jostles the initial sacker
as he crosses the bag. Ball reached
first In time to retire runner and the
play was not intorfered with and
runner is declared out Can umpire
eject base runner from the game
for iostling first baseman? PEP.
No, that's part Of the game. Rough
ness is 10 be depl0red. but there Is
no rule 20 prevent II, and no penalty
unless Il interferes with n play.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL.
Can you inform me where could
get the record OF Joe Lannan, the
old-time boxer and sparring partner
of John l.. Sullivan? G. L.
Joe Lannan was born on Prince
Edward Island, March 1. 1865. He
was i've feet ten and One-half inches
IN height and weighed 100 pounds In
fighting trim. He started lighting In
1884. boxing n three-rOund draw with
Nell D0herty at WalpOIe, Mass. and
another three-rOund draw with James
iayey In South Boston. In 1885 Lam
nan won over Matt Cunningham
twice and drew once, police stopping
one bout. He won over James Duf.
fey. Billy Wilson and Joe Brady. lie
won two bouts ON foul from I'D
MckeOwn and lost 10 Pat killen In
ninc rounds. In 1856 he knocked Oui
! John LOughlln and Frank Herald In
six rounds; won over Mike BOden
Jack Kelly aud Tom Kelly. nnt
fought n six-rOund draw with GeOrg,
Godfrey. In 1887 Lnnnan lost Il
Jake kilrain In eleven rounds. an,
won over Jim Brady in seven rounds
In lsSS Lannnn won from Jim Eel
ANA Jim Hlynn. I'm 1889 he Tough
George Godfrey iifteen-rOund draw
3 and was knocked Ouf by Jack Ashton
) IN nineteen rounds In bout IN stu.
water. II. ]. His bouts with Peter
Jackson at Revere Beach and Will
Jack Ashton In Boston we're stOpped
by the police. In 1892 he boxed
three no-decisiOn rounds with Jim
Corbett In New York. and was
knocked out In the fourth round by
George Godfrey nj COney Island. He
fought his last fight In 1898. beating
"6unner'' White IN three-ronnd
bout at Halifax.
Sport Editor, EVENING JOURNAL:
bets b that the will beat
the , neither knowing that a
double-header was 10 be played The
-- did win the first game, but lost
the second. b claims that the bel
should be called on. but A claims
that as the @ won the first game
he wins. regardless of the fact that
a doublo-header was played. Who
wins? NJ
Bet should he decided ON first
game. First game Of dOuble-head.
er Is the scheduled game.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
A bets that George Wiltse of the
New York Nationals pitched a no-hii
no-run game against Philadelphia
some few years ago. II was a ten
inning game. b bets that he gave
one hit and IL was in the tenth I'm.
ming OF the game, and claims It was
a one-hit game. Who wins? G..
wins. In the morning game on
the Polo Grounds. July 4. 1905
NiItse pitched ten-inning nO-hil
game against Philadelphia. New
York won In the tenth. to o. Onl,
one Phillie reached first base. The
twenty-seyenth man 10 face WiItse
George McQuilInn. got his base ON q
shit by pitcher"