Arizona republican., 1914-08-02
Extra-inning Games, no-hit Contests, Accidents Dis tinguished Month-Thou- sand Britons Coming to See Yacht Race
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 NEW YORK, August IA series Of unusual occurrences marked July in professional baseball. Extra inn ing, nO-hit games, and accidents on the diamond were grouped within a few days, as was the case just about this period in 1913. Taking these un- usual features by dates, July IT saw Clyde Milan in collision with Moeller, his team-mate, as both raced for a fly ball in the Washington Cleveland game with the result that Milan re- ceived a badly fractured jaw. On the same day George Weaver, captain of the Chicago White Sox, collided with Demmitt under similar circumstances and was severely injured about the head A no-hit no-run game and a twenty-one inning struggle also fig u.ed in the records of July IT. At Pittsburg the New York Giants and the Pittsburg Pirates played twenty one innings, the New York club winning by to l. Rube Mar quard and Babe Adams. the rival pitchers. twirled the entire contest. With the exception of the twenty four inning game between the Phila- delphia Athletics and the Boston Americans on September l, 1906, this is the longest game ever played in the major leagues.
 Three days previously the Hartford club defeated the New Haven team ? to 1 in a twenty-three inning game in the Eastern association, which is the third longest game in the record of professional baseball. The twenty six inning contest be- | the ThreeI League, played on May | 31, 19O9 still holds first place and the | Philadelphia Boston twenty-four inn ! ing match second position in the rec | ord of long games. Getting back to | July IT again, James Withers, pitch CT of the Duluth club of the Northern League, twirled a no hit, no-run 1 game against the Virginia club of the same league. This is the third l hitless game of the Northern League this season. The next day at Leban- on, Pa, the Lincoln Giants, a semi | professional team, varied the sched- | ule by defeating the home club 23 tC | 3, and incidentally scoring eight | home runs. Three players each se- cured two circuit hits. Moving on tc l July 19, the records show that the 1 Wichita club of the Western League l defeated Sioux City 3 to ? in g twenty-five inning game which re- quired four hours and forty eight minutes to play. On the same day at Long Branch, N. J., Jose Acosta the Cuban pitcher of the seashort team, shut out the St. Louis Ameri- | can League club without a hit ol run, winning a 3 to 0 victory il which he did not give base on balls and had but twelve balls called or his delivery for the full nine innings | Coming to See Yacht Race
 Enthusiasm regarding the chance: of the Shamrock ". lifting thu America cup has increased remark
 ably throughout England since tho Lipton challenger sailed for Ameri- can shores. A number of private
 parties have arranged to cross thu Atlantic to witness the cup races of
 Sandy Hook and the latest scheme i!
 subscription tours to the states fo
 the international yachting event. Th'
 trips which are to cover a period O
 thirty-five days are advertised a
 public subscription at S525. The ser
 vice includes steamship and hotel ac
 commodations in addition to excur
 sion steamer to follow the cup con
 tenders. It is expected that iron