The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-11
.GPORT YARNG
 A BY THE VETERAN N

THB greatest string of consecutive victories in the big leagues goes back to the very beginning of profes- sional baseball. It was on the 14th of June, 1870 when the winning streak
 of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, which had lasted through a year and half, was finally broken in a close game at lBrooklyn with the Atlantics. The score of the contest was Brooklyn s, Cincinnati :. The game went into the eleventh inning, when the Reds put two runs over the pan and seemingly had victory in their grasp. In their half the Atlantics scored three runs. and ended the Redland bunch's long run without defeat. Incidentally 1t was in this pastime that the first dou
 ble play in baseball was pulled off.
 The Red Stockings turned profes- sional in 1869, and started their sea son by defeating the Cincinnati Great Westerns. They then started out on | tour. defeating the Fort Wayne club.
 the Buffalo Niagaras, the Cleveland Forest Citys, the Rochester Alerts. | the Troy Haymakers, the Albany Ma
 tionals. the Mutuals of Springfield
 Mass, the Boston Lowells, the Brook
 lyn Atlantics, the Boston Tri-Moun-
 tains. Harvard, the Brooklyn Mutuals.
 the Brooklyn Atlantics the Brooklyn |
 the Philadelphia Atheltics and defeat ed every other team they met. The
 only tie game was one played against
 the d-ansingburg. N. Y, Unions, after
 ward the Troy Haymakers, which l ended with score of [ to IT. This | draw battle was the only break in the ! Cincinnati winning streak until the | Reds were defeated in Brooklyn the | following year. During the remaind- | CT of the 1869 season the Reds made | q. trip to the Pacific Coast, stopping | at St. Louis to defeat the Unions and l the Empires. Four games were play ! ed in San Francisco and on the re- turn trip the Reds bested the clubs at l Omaha, Nebraska City, Quincy and l Indianapolis.
 ! In 1870 the victory-fushed Red | Stockings started the season with a
 southern junket, defeating the best clubs of New Orleans, and stopping at 1 Memphis to administer a 10O-2 defeat | to the Orientals. After several games | at home the Reds started another ! eastern invasion. and the winning | streak was cracked at Brooklyn. When the Atlantics got their number | the Reds had won fffty-six games, | with one tie, had travelled nearly
 12 900 miles. and had made 2,395 | runs. as against 574 by their op-
 ponents.
 The major league winning streak | record was set up in 1884 by the | Providence club, which annexed | twenty straight games. The modern | record was set up by the Giants in | 1904, when they won eighteen con- | secutive contests, in the National | League, while the American League
 record was established by the White
 Sox in 19o6, when the "hitless won ders'' made 1t nineteen straight. | N MEMORABLE ring battle took
 m place on this date in 1900, when Terrible Terry McGovern knocked
 out Tommy White in the third round
 at Coney Island. Later in the same year White again fought Terry in | Milwaukee, and was again defeated. ! This brace of defeats at the hands of | the Terrible" one seemed to dis | courage Tommy, and he retired from | the ring.
 | White was a. native of Chicago. | where he was known the Board | of Trade Pet, while he was never | featherweight champion, he was one
 of the strongest, cleverest little men | the ring has ever known. His first i real fight was in 1889, when he | fought a fifty-four round draw with 1 Tommy Morgan. In 1892 he went to | Minneapolis and fought ten rounds | with Ike Weir, the Belfast Spider ! and. although it was called a. draw, | the pet had the best of the affair with | the man from Ireland.
 | In the same year White fought | thirty-two round draw with Austra-
 lian Billy Murphy, and in 1893 he got | a draw with Young Grdffo, the clever | Australian. In 1896 he fought an- | other draw, this time with George l Dixon. the featherweiEht champion, ] and knocked out Eddy Santry. In | 1897 White fought twenty-five | round draw with Solly Smith, who | soon afterward became champion, | and defeated 'Gent1eman Jack" Ske1- | ly. In 1898 he again fought draws | with Dixon and Dolly Smith, but was | defeated by Dixon in Denver the fol- | lowing year.
 1 H HARLIE Mitchell and Patsy Car S diff fought a five-round draw at | Minneapolis on this date in 1886. | This bout was with soft gloves. The | Eng1ishman then weighed about 1 55 1 pounds. while Cardiff tipped the
 beam at 1855 pounds. Practically all