El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-08

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1 in Cincinnati and verbal clashes
I between the fans and the New York
players accompany every game in
which 1IcGraW's men take part in the
Ohio city.
Hugo Bezdek and Barney Dryfuss
are still chucklins over the deal they
made with the Brooklyn club last
winter.
Ross Young, OF the Giants. was
the first player to reach the quur-
ter century mark IN runs scored
in the National league. Ray
Chapman was the first To score
= runs in the American league.
Just about the time that Hugh Be
dent returned 10 the majors another
or those 1912 worlds champions also
returned steve Ierkes signed with
the Cardinals.
There are rumors that the Cubs
stockholders are finding fault with
president Weeghman for paying $50
ouu Tor Alexander and kilefer with
out making stipulations as to the
drafting Of those players.
THE DAYS OF BIG SCORES.
While the latter-day crop Of base
bail fans has been educated to a
point where they prefer a pitchers
battle 70 a batting bee, there are
sim leIr many oldtimers whose taste
runs 10 the old fashioned game I'm
which hits are hard and frequent and
q big score is rolled UP.
To this type Of fan the classic
game Of baseball was one STAGED i'm
Buffalo 20
1859. when the Niagaras defeated the
columbus club by score of 209 to
TO- This was the largest score on
record in a game between regular
clubs, although doubtless scrub"
nine or the rural districts often
equaled or surpassed IL in the good
old days.
Even more onesided than the Buff
Ial0 contest, although fewer runs
were scored, was a game between
Chleago and Memphis in 1870. the for
mer winning. l5f TO i. In the same
year two Cleveland clubs. the For
est Citys and Alantics. played five
inning game, called on account Of
darkness, which was won b. the first
named club, 132 10 /. In one inning
me Forest city team got So runs, and
on one day in 1865 the Philadelphia
ALnletcs defeated Williamsport in
the morning, 101 TO 8. and in the
afternoon triumphed over the Dan
Vile Alerts, 1852 10 H. Having made
263 circuits Of the bases in nine hours
the Athletics knocked off and called
it day.
The biggest score in the National
league in 1876, its first year, was
chicago so. Louisville 2. This big
league mark was surpassed in 1852.
when Chicago got So runs in a game
with the Cleveland team. which put
over 1our. The following year Chi
cago defeated Buffalo. 81 to = The
80 mark was not surpassed again un-
III 1880, when the Philadelphia Play
ers' league club defeated Buffalo. go
10 u. In 1892 the Reds larruped
LOUISVILLE 20 the tune OF 30 TO u. The
MAJOR league record was set up fin
1897, when the Louisville Colonels
IeI before Chicago, IS to Z. In 1911
the Cincinnati Reds staged a swat
rest reminiscent OF the good old days.
defeating Boston % 10 9.
DEMPSEY'S FAREWELL BOUT.
John l. sullivan and Jack DemD-
sey boxed three-round exhibition i'm
New York on June s. 1895. This was
a farewell benefit given in Madison
square garden in honor OF Dempsey.
the former middleweight champion,
ana u marked his last appearance in
the ring. The "Nonpareil" presented
a pItiful sight 20 his army Of friends
ana admirers, FOR he was already far
gone with tuberculosis and was re-
duced 70 skin and bones. weighing
only about 1875 pounds. Dempsey left
INN diately after the exhibition for
Oregon, where he vainly hoped that
he might win back his health. but he
survived only a few months The
great Irishman was one Of the gam
est squarest men the ring has ever
had, and no other boxer has ever
gained so large a personal following /
Of devoted, affectionate friends. This /
feeling was so strong that when
Fitzszimmons defeated Dempsey for
The middleweiEht title a feeling OF /
1eep resentment against Fitz spranE /