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Show I ! 1 SPORTING DiEATH I LIST NOT LONG Hr ; Bui 70 Fatalities This Names of Soma Who Have fl ' Passed Away During Sos-H Sos-H sen of 1904. ' Accidents, Sickness find Suicide Aro Responsible Some Peculiar Fatalities. , The unusual number of deaths on the baseball field this year has In this re- epect established a record for the sea-. sea-. son of 1904 that has never been equaled. ' i Kine men have been killed while at the national sport, and the most remark- able part of all is that two of them r -were killed by lightning one day apart. Sunstroke and lightning victims have ! herctofoie been a rarity on the ball ileld, but this year seems to be an ex-ecptlon. ex-ecptlon. Two players were struck while playing in the Souih not long afeo, but were not seriously injured. i j Tills makes four lightning victims al-'. al-'. J together, the other two being in the -j East, and both died Instantly. I ' ij Two accidents of the year occurred '. in Pennsylvania, one at Indiana and , ( the other at Cherry JIlll. In the first j Grove Thomas, a Cincinnati boy, was Hl hit by a ball during play and Instantly killed. Hiram Williams met a slnillnr death In the other. The saddest feature of both accidents was that the young wives of the players were witnesses to their husbands' terrible deaths. The men who met natural deaths in I i baseball this year number eleven. Pr.ob-j Pr.ob-j ably the most noted of all was James 'i (Chip) McGarr, who died In an Insane H ' asylum at Worcester, Mass,, on June r I 6. He was an old-time National league , 1 play&r, and was known throughout the I j United States. Locally the best known (' player that passed to the great beyond ij was Ben (shorty) Fuller, formerly 1 1 shortstop for the New Torks. There Hj . 1 were two suicides recorded. Hugh Hlg-i Hlg-i I' gens, a well-known amateur player of Louisville, killed himself on March 1C. B, 1 1 Dan Mahaney took his own life at : Springfield, Mass., on January 31. , In the turf world tho most prominent men to leave this earth were William C. Whitney, who died In New York City of the effects of an operation on Jan-H, Jan-H, uary 20, and J. Malcolm Forbes, the noted breeder of trotting horses, who died on his estate at Milton, Mass., on H February 19. Others of note were Sen- 1 ator J. S. O'Brien of Stillwater, Minn.; 'V.t C. ,E. Jcffers, the Louisville horseman, B ' & 'vvno "5Vas ln partnership with Johnny B 1 Fay, and David Nagle, an old-time C'al-B C'al-B ifornla horseman. fl I In tne harness world death claimed B Gtorgc Fuller, known far and wide as B 'a relnsman; Sam Moreland of Covlng- 1 ton, and Uncle Billy Hughes of Scdalia, 1 I The best-known jockey to die this B I season was Andy Hamilton. He died B in France on February 1. Hamilton B ' i was born ln this country and, although B i 1 black in color; was at one time consld-B consld-B crcd the best ln America. B The death of Caesar Young in New B I 'York City took from the ranks of the B ' i 'American bookmakers one of the best B , in the business. His death Is still t fresh in the minds of the general pub-B pub-B ' 1 lie. he having been found dead ln a car- B 'riagc, seated beside Nan Patterson, an B i I 1 actress, on Saturday, June 5. B The most conspicuous figure to be B 1 i , taken from the boxing world by death j B 1 was James E. Kennedy, the New York B , (promoter of athletic sports. He died B ' j on an elevated train ln Brooklyn on B i , I j April 20. Tommy Warren was the only B j : boxer of prominence to die since the B 1 I J llrst of the year. There have been B ( j three deaths in the prize ring, but none B j of the victims weer known outside their B I home city, and, like all cases of this i kind, their deaths were due to lack of training and not from punishment ' dealt out by their opponents. 1 The total number of deaths ln the . i i sixty. Danny Maher's Success. J j NEW YORK, SepU 10. Ten winners, 4 l four seconds and one third ln seventeen ' j mounts is the record made by Jockey "Danny" Maher at the Stockton sum- mer meeting ln England, and great credit Is given this popular rider for his J clever showing. I In two consecutive days Maher rode . four winners each day, several of these I . races being stake events with several thousand dollars to the winning owner, if ' "Danny" Maher is purely nn Amer- j lean product. He was one of the first '. . of the American Jockeys to meet with i I Buccess in England, and is known as i ' . the leaders of the "Yankee invaders." ' j His career abroad has been remark- I able. The clever American boy is a protege I . of "Mike" Daly, who taught him to ride. Maher went o tEngland practi- ; cally without a reputation or a dollar. i I j "When he visited the country a year i later he had both reputation and dollars i 1 jralorc. |