The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-10
FORMER BIG
Lacquer HAS
ODD RECORD

ting days IN the MAYOR leagues las,
season. showing some unusual. bu,
not recorti-br-aking performances.
Now for few lines on big run
scoring days by big show athletes. IN
which the performances were not 80
notable as no has. runner came
closer 70 tho record OF six runs
scored In a game than two--four
runs 10 the game being tho limit.
In is games last year player
scored as many as four runs for his
team.
PcruEai OF tho record books would
s-cna 10 Indicate tina, Clarence Gln.
g-r, BEAUMONT OF the Pirates was
tho only major Lacquer who ever
wended his way from plate 10 plate
six times In one game. Beaumont
doing this Ia the controversy Of July
20. 1899. with the Phillics.
Twelve years earlier. however.
there was a game played In tho Ma
tional league In which no, only one
man. but two. scofed half dozen
runs. The athletes In question were
Mike uking) Kelly and Ezra h. SUIT.
ton OF Boston. and they Eot their
counters in n game agairst tho team
that later employed beaumont
Tho corsairs. In 1857. wcre the
baby members OF the present or
ganixation and they received very
sound spanking on August 81 from
the Bcaneatsrs, being whaied. 3s 20
II. Jim Calvin started TO pitch this
gam. for IN. Pcnnsyivanians and
was relieved near the finish by
Jocko Fields. who generally did the
receiving for the tubby person. The
Beaneaters must have enjoyed this
massacre Of the infants from the
Smoky City. as rs days earlier said
infants had overwhelmed them on
the basis of 81 10 }. Charley Rad
bourne being tho pitcher tho Pirates
maccd so freely.
No Such Scoring In Modern Days
since tho National got down 10
an eighs-ciub basis and since the
American started TO compete with
the National for popularity and
patronage. no player has been able
TO equal the scoring feats OF KNIly
and sutton ia 1897 and Beaumont In
1898.
Occasionally. only occasionally.
nowadays. a player gets five runs In
a game. there being three good rca.
sons why he cannot obtain elk. In
the first place. there aren't any
moro colossal runfests like those
tina, used TO crop up In the sos and
eos: in the second place. few play
ers reach the bases ak times in one
game, and. In the third place. the
rescrves are likely TO replace some
OF the regulars II team gets n
commanding hand
As indicated above. no big
leaguers In 1918 crossed the plate
six times. or even five times in one
fracaa. -Four runs was the single
game limit, and there weren't a
great many FASTENERS there were
Is TO be exact who were able TO
score In this wholesale manner.
Eight American icagucrs and seven
National leaguers turned the trick.
Merlin Kopp. of the As producing
the finest feat OF this kind. when
the Macks. Bob Geary pitching. won
over the Yankees on July ,. by n
score OF 10 0, Kopp, who gives
promise Of being one OF the grand
est young players In America,
scored four Of their runs. Charley
Jameson. In the game OF May g..
against Washington. which Philadel-
phla won, 8 to 6. Tailed four times.
and Kopp then crossed the plate on
three occasions. these two former
employees OF Clark Griffith thus ac-
cumulating seven out OF the eight
markers acquired by their teams.
Four.Run Scorers Of 1918
These were the other American
and National ieagucrs who scored
four runs in games last season:
May 25-Baird. Cardinals. against
Brooklyn. his team making runs.
April 22--Chapman. Indians.
against 81. Louis. his team making
8 runs.
May 81 -- Gardner. Athletics,
q against ST. Louis. his team making
8 runs.
Aug. Cobb. Tigers, against
Boston, his team making II runs
Aug. 12-Southworth. Pirates.
against Chicago. his team making ~
runs.
June 21--Shean. Red Soy, against
his team making ~
runs.
April 3o-Gandll. white Sox.
against Cleveland, his team making
- runs.
July s--Acosta, Athletics. against
Detroit. his team making 16 runs.
July G-Caton, Pirates. against