The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-23
MILTON STOCK HITS
FREAK CIRCUIT DRIVE:
Ball Strikes Third-iiasc Bag and
Bounds Lutte Gr,ndstnni
Box.
BILL LANCE BREAKS UP PARTY
Drives Sphere Through Saloon-Win-
dow as pirochlc Player Was Mel
ding i00--;'y Seymour Makes Rec
ord Home Kan.

Mutton STOCK, the Giants third sack III
treated himself TO = luke home run
the other day. and it Immediately start
ed discussion coucornin. freak and
lengthy circuit swa,s. Many trottcd
forth stories &c otrcr home runs. In,
It was voted that Stocks was about
tho hukieat that had happened in -
long time.
Stocks drive ,inashod into the bag
NJ third base and then bounced into
OF the boxes The rival third sacllcr
recovered tho ball almost before Stock
had rounded first, bat the umpircs. dc
ciarinS tho ban had landed outside tho
playing field. after first hitting fair.
gave Stock = homer.
Cy' Young. the old Cleveland pitch
G. hit out four haGgcr in Cleveland
enc dag. Til" ball skikmncd aloni,
the first base line and made for tho
score hoard which. then was In short
right field The ball hit under the
board and into the little space between
the board and a fence Before tho
ouincldcr could dig 1t out. "Cy." who
frequently had made 100 yards in
forty -scccn seconds. tore" around the
bases and was credited with n homer.
Rig Bill' Lange. who played with
The Chicago team in the old days.
whalcd 4 ball over the centre field
fence in Cincinnati ono day II
crashed through the window Of ga :
loon across the street and broke up
a pnochle party just as one of the
players was on the point OF NEEDING
something like zoe.
Buck" Freeman. also known rs
Home Run" Freeman. connected with
one Of chief Bcndcrs twistcrs In p
game mt Philadelphia. and. no, only
lifted the ball out OF tho lot, but drove
1T through an open window on the
second .ioor OF a house that was n
block away from tho park
JnckSon Hits Longest Homer.
Joe jackson. of the Maps. I'm tho opin-
ion of baseball veterans hit the long
eS; home rum in TIA" history Of base
ball. 1t was in a game IN New York
last year, Joc's drive cleared the top
of tn" lofty right ncld grand stand by
at least forty feet. When last seen tho
ball WAS travelling at Il terrific clip. and
1t was estimated that before the ball
landed II must have been $50 feet clear
OF the park.
"Heinic" Zimmerman, the quiet, un-
assuming. pcncc-Iovinr third basc,na n
of the Cubs. raped out 4 brace of
homcrs in one day Ia Cincinnati They
cleared tho centre field fence by about
ton feet each iicinio is the only
player who ever turned the trick in
that BALL park.
Miller Huggins OF the Cardinals got
liunltcy home run. 1t happened in
Cincinnati. Many odd things happen
there. Miller lifted = short hv TO right.
The sun got in the folders eye and the
ball dropped ton feet from him Be
fore tho outfcldcr could rub tho glare
out OF his peppers. Miller slipped around
the bases.
Buddy" Ryan once upon n time
when the Maps polScd ou' homer
o. two ago. 1t was one Of the few
times in baseball history that this
four-runs- with one smash stunt has
been accomplished.
Larry DOYLE. of the Giants, carved
his name in bascha.ls hall OF fame a
few weeks ago when he cracked out
famoa four bagPcr in tho twcuty-irst
inning of the Giants-Piratcs game. - s
swat ended the longest combat in big
league history.
.inhu>"n I<u"cks Cover or Dnli.
waiter Johnson, one OF the Senators.
docs not hit EN- often. but when he
does. there's happcnings- He connect
ed with q bah In Washington some
iliac back and hit il so hard he
knocked off the cover. The cover
landed over second base and the rest
Of the ball landed . few miles outside
the ball park
Larry Doyle has another claim TO
fame other than chat which came
through his blow In Pittsburgh rlayf
INK on the pac!nc Coast. he smashed
the ball through the only knothole in
Che fence. II was In right field. The
hole was just "a tHne large. than the
BAH. hut Larry drove il sqUnrc ut the
hole. and the ball, inst Of caroming
OF went through
Cy Seymour hit a bal! in Boston
and 1t never touched ground until
1t reached New York Cv's drive
cleared the fence and tho bal! dropped
tr.to one OF the open cars of a freight
train that was passing NJ the time.
II was found by Il brakesmon when
the train reached Gotham.