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Show RECORD ON TOBOGGAN Louisville Team Lost Twenty-Six Straight Contests. ( Colonels Were of Old Major League American Association Worst Losing Los-ing Streak Ever Made in Baseball History. There is one baseball record that nc club is nnxious to overturn, and which, everybody concerned will be glad to-let to-let stand until the end of time. That is the record of consecutive defeats, hung up in 18S9 by the Louisville chit of the old major league American as sociation. The string was finally broken by a 7 to 3 victory over the St. Louis team, which put an end to the worst losing streak the game has ever known. Up to the time of the victory over St. Louis the Colonels had lost 2G games In a row, and the few wavering supporters sup-porters of the club were on the verge of abandoning all hope that the team would ever win a game. The dubious feat of the Louisville club remains, and may always rcmuin, the major league record. Only once has it been equaled in a minor league, and it has never been surpassed in any professional circuit. In 1013 the Meredian (Miss.) club of the Cotton States league was nicked for 20 con secutive wallops, and had the world's record in sight when the team foil, down and won a game. The record losing streak of the National Na-tional league was pulled off in 1SW, the year of the Brotherhood war, when the Pittsburgh club dropped 23 games in a row. Tho whole bunch of Smoky Cit players went over to the Players" league and Guy Ilecker, the new manager, man-ager, had to build practically a new-team, new-team, getting his material where he could. After the long losing streak the fans deserted the sinking ship and gave their support to the Players league team, which included most of the old Pittsburgh favorites. Games were transferred to other cities and even to neighboring towns, in Pennsylvania and Ohio and West Virginia. The club also set up nn-other nn-other record that year by losing three games in a day. The American league losing streak record of 20 games was set up by Boston in 190G. Jimmy Collins, who-managed who-managed the Red Sox from the first, and who had kept the club in the first division and won two pennants prior to the fatal year, was charged by tha-Boston tha-Boston fans with neglecting his duties, and the veterans of the outfit seemed-to seemed-to go all to pieces. As a result Boston Bos-ton finished the season In the cellar,,, losing 105 games and winning only 4'J. |