Show I Y YEARS EARS DEATHS DEATH ON DIAMOND I Nearly N early As Many Killed This Season jn in Baseball B as ason ason on Gridiron Now that the knights of the diamond I li h i have ave given place to the tIle fiercer heroes of i the t he gridiron gri iron fans and football enthusiasts enthusiasts a are casting up a few comparisons a as s to the final cost in human lives Jives of these hee t tao t 0 sports the opinion is that football is not so bad after all aU This Tills season twelve baseball players pla ers T wore W n cre re killed The batted ball the pitched ball b f all and the tile thrown ball all proved deadly dead d Aside from those who met death eath d in games baseball has Indirectly a at a t least a dozen victims who fell hell off r roofs died of heart disease or were run over o ver by b cars while hurrying to games The Tile list of oh players to whom the great r national n sport was fatal is Joseph Schneider eUer Germantown Pa died d of exhaustion after at J Belmont elmont B July 2 Frank Welson Philadelphia struck and a nd killed by bat that slipped from friends f hand in game May 26 George T Snyder baseball player layer p stricken with heart disease as he h l made ade a William Garrison Philadelphia rup ruptured j t a blood vessel striking a ball ban in ft L Camden April 12 Casper Musselman Catasauqua Pa la lait hit h it over o er heart by b pitched ball Aug 20 Alfred Alfr d Mayer struck with bat in I game at Allentown April 22 John Atting skull fractured by pitched ball at Pottstown July 4 Joseph Soseph J McDonald of ot Mount Holly Hony p N J hit on head by batted ball Sep 1 t 3 Frederick Fre erick Whittaker Hamilton Ter Terrace Terrace Terace race ace r N J I hit over heart by batted I Iball ball July 29 Eugene Harris 15 years old hit on or L head by ly batted ball at Asheville April AprilS 8 S Thomas F P Burke struck by b pitched hall ban at Lynn Mass Aug 11 Henry hit by pitched pitch d ball at al Wooster 0 O June 10 Several spectators of ball games were killed Thomas P Baker Balter was hit by a Do abat Dobat bat that slipped sUpped from a players hands hand I 5 at Camden June 16 George C Hackett was killed by b a r I batted ball ban In Philadelphia May IShay 30 Eva Bennet died cited of excitement I L watching a game in Philadelphia July Jul r r 22 Fear that the Athletics might lose los j brought a stroke of apoplexy tb tt James Jarne JamesH JamesH 3 j H Benson of Philadelphia on April 15 And so o it goes The list here givet I is necessarily Incomplete but it gives give S an idea of accidents which happened in Ii I SI i one part of ot the country from baseball |