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Men Are Not Left On Base


out OF more than 500 games played
~ in the National league last sea
son. there was only one in which
one Of the contestants failed TO have
anyone left on the bases. Generally.
when team goes through a combat
without having one single pastimer
marooned on the runway Il gets
beaten, but on this occasion. at New
York, on Friday, October I. the club
with q record Of this kind won.
Dodgers Won Verdict.
Brooklyn was the club in question.
the Superbas getting 4 TO 3 decision
over Philip Brooks Douglas, once one
OF the members Of Camp Robinson
Shutting Phil pitched a nice. freak
ISL game, making first base dead
mans land for the first seven stanzas
and sending the Superbas back 10 the
bench as fast as they came up. Dur
ing this time there was only one near
hit. Ross Young despoiling Tom Grif-
fifth OF a Wallop by a noble one
handed catch OF his fly ball UP
against the right field fence in the
opening chapter
Zach Wheat procured Brook
lyn'S first safety, n single. when
he dedicated the eighth, and he
scored. after beating his rrny TO
second. on H Harrison Myers
one spot II. Harrison WIS forced
hT konefchy and after Eilduff
skied out. Ernest Kruger hit
into the left field bIeacherH for
n homer tying the score. Three
men got on. three men got off,
in this session
In the ninth the one Brooklynite
VINO reached first also toured the cir
cult Olson out Of the way. q good
throw by Douglas would have retired
Johnston The Giant pitcher did not
"a h
rible one-and James Harl skipped
70 third scoring a moment later when
Griffith boosted a sacrifice fly 10
Burns.
Rather tough to pitch a game and
lose it when no one is left on the
sacks, but no novelty.
Poll Perrfff Has Experiences.
Same thing happened to rs. Dayton
Perritt when he was pitching for the
Cardinals against the Giants on Au-
gust Is, 1913. the score of that argu-
ment being s 70 J. Eleven McGraw-
ties qualified that day as baserunners.
six Of them scored Ivy Wiugo cut
other athlete was erased in a double
play
Eleven games In which no one
WnE left on the bases were re-
ported in the National league in
1910 by John Heydler, but seven
comhufEs official scorers forget
ting TO report the number OF
athletes maroOned when they
filled out the blanks. Actually
there were two games IN the Ma
tioual that year in which no one
WAS Ieff-one pitched BY Harry
slllee Of the Reds against New
York on August I3, the other
pitched Harold Carlson Of the Pr
rates against philadelphia
month later.
Twelve times last season in the
National one side only had one man
left on base. and in two games at the
Polo grounds each side had just a
single pastimer stranded. These games
were between the pills and Giants, on
April 20, and Cubs and Giants, on Au-
gust 5, and were pitched by Eppa
RiEey and fRube Benton and by Jim
Vaughn and Jess Barnes. New York
lost the first Of these scraps, s 70 0.
and captured the second. 2 to / The
other contests in which one man was
left we're as follows:
Only One Man Left.
Nay - Reds against Pirates,
Cooper pitching. Pittsburg won. TO o.
Nay Pirates against Cubs, Mar
tin pitching. Pittsburg won, 20 Q.
Nay 6-Giants against superbas.
Mamauz pitching. New York won.
? TO l.
June Reds against Cubs, Hendrix
pitching. Cincinnati won. s to 5.
July Cubs against Reds, Luque
and Eller pitching. Chicago won. 1
July Giants against Phiuies.
RiLey pitching. Phillies won, 5 to J.
July IS - Cubs against Braves,
oeschger pitching Chicago won, 6
August s.-Giants against Cubs.
Vaughn and Carter pitching. New
York won, Z to l.
August 2T-Reds against Giants,
Douglas pitching Give inningB). Game
a runless draw.
September s-Giants against Braves,
watson and Ira Townsend pitching.
New York won, s TO 0.
September 12-Cubs against Su-
perbas, Grimes pitching Brooklyn
won. to 0.
September 16 - Pirates against
Giants. Nehf pitching. New York
won 4 70 O.
In no National league game OF regu-
lation length last season was there
any remarkable number Of men left
Different story 70 tell, though, when
the summaries OF the extra round
battles are inspected Eighteen Giants
were marooned in the u inning game
with the Cubs, on Nay IS. and II Of
the McGraWites we're stranded IN the
II iuninT Gcra1 with the Phillies on