Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-18
OUTFIELDER JIMMY FOGARTY
LONG WILL BE REMEMBERED
In His Day He Stood Out in Al-Around Work as T,
Cobb Does at the Present
Time.

he was banqueted at Philadelphia and
presented with ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ty-
do lar sold watch and other prizes II
vas the last pubic reception given him
In 1890 the en- tite Quilted OF me Phli-
adelphia team except Tho mrson desert
ed and went over to the Philadelph Play.
ers' League team. Fegarty continued
his brill ant work. but ii was the last
u the Phiiad eiphia Ma tiona. League team
.hy the ,.rticles of the peace agreement, he
came east from MS California home
early IN February apparently in splen-
ioid heath But he lost HIS robus ness
after several weeks in the damp Penn
lvania metropolis. went to bed sick and
a,ed May 20. 1891, in a hosnita' at
CURED his services had been purchased
by the Pittsburgh club.
Char'ey Sweeney, who PLAYED with
Fosarty as a boy In San Francisco.
entered the National Learue year be-
gagged to pitch for the Providence team,
which had won the championship in 1879.
and was still a powerful factor AT
Providence Sweeney aided Pitcher Char
ley Radbourae In winning the champion
ship in 1884. the second and last time it
was captured by the famous 'Grays.'
Famed Nineteen Batsinen.
Sweeney's fame. to a great extent, rests
On the record he made of striking out
nineteen batsmen in a game at Boston
June I. 1854. 1t Is still the record In the
National League. The next best strike
out record Is sixteen. made by John
Garrison. Frank Gilmore and Frank
Noodles" Hahn. Garrison. pitching for
Chicago. struck out sixteen Kansas City
batsmen August 10. 1sot: Gilmore Oh
Washington tanned that number OF St
Louis Maroons September Is. 1856. and
Il
struck out sixteen Boston batsmen at
Boston. Vic Wills pitched Tor the Bos-
tors, and struck out seven men. max ng
total OF wenty three str,RE-oufs- In the
old American Association the StriEe-o It
record was seventeen. Tom Toad RIM
sey of the LOUIS eiie team performed the
feat twice. August 8. les, he famed
seventeen Metropolitan players, ana June
u, 1887, seventeen Cleve.and men
Sweeneys feat of striking out nineteen
men followed the day when the Boston
and Providence teams played a Sixteen
inn.ns game at Prov IdeIce. which ended
in tie. leach side scor ne but one run
Sweeney, in the MIDI e of the season o;
1881, jumped the st. Louis team of the
Union ASSOCIATION. an outlaw orSanIZa-
ton. Alter The collapse Oh the outia "
body. at The close of the season, Sweeney
was reInsta led after paying d heavy tine,
and was secured by, the st. Louis Ma
rooms of the l>ational League with whom
he remained for Two seasonS-1So5 and
1886.
While with the Maroons he had a
thrilling experience in a game at De
troit June ~. 1856. when he was pound d
for twenty-one safe hits, for a tota.
foTty-four bases. Among the hits Were
seven home runs, which record Was
equaled once. but never surpassed in the
Nationa League in modern days. June
u. 1891, the Pirates made seven home rms
off Henry L-ampe ana Tom smith, pitch
ers tor the Boston team. he game vas
prayed al Boston. the Pirates getting
twenty hits Tor d total OF forty-six buses
and won by a score of q to Ii. Tom
Goicoloush was the Pittsburgh pitcher
in the game in when Sweeney vas So
heavily p1nisned. the Detrous who had
Chariey Getzein in the box, won by a
score OF II 10 I.
in 1887 Sweeney was with the Cleveland
team. put IN 1883 he reInained in Cali
lorna. where he covered infield positions
especially first base and occasional y
Went INTO the pitchers box for the StocE
ton. san francisco and Oakland teams
until lo92. After that yea. ne ,iroppe.
out OF the game. In 1894 he was so I'm
fortunate that N a general saloon bra WI
IN winch a man named Con McMants
was shot to death he was accused of the
crime convicted of mansiaughEer ami
sentenced to the penitent!ary for eight
years.