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Show PLAYED TWENTY-FOillliS TWENTY-FOillliS Philadelphia Defeated Boston After New Major League Record Rec-ord Had Been Made. WONDERFUL GAME LASTED FIVE HOURS Only On One Occasion Has This Number of Innings Been Exceeded. BOSTON, Sept. 1, A now major league record was established today, when Philadelphia defoatod Boston 4 to 1, in a twonty-four-innlng gamo, lasting last-ing nearly flvo hours. An advertised ad-vertised double-heador brought out a large crowd, but it was lmpoaslblo to play the second game on account of darkness. dark-ness. On only ono occasion so far as recorded has this number of innings been exceeded. In 1SD5 a gnmo between Fargo and Grand Forks at Devil's Lako, N. D., lasted twenty-five innings. The second longost gnme on record prior to tho gamo today was the Harvard-Manchester game of twenty-four innings, played in Boston common, twenty-nine years ago. , Is Major League Record. Only thrco major league games approach ap-proach the prosont record, each having lasted twenty Innings. In tho thirty-six years of professional ball In this city only three games havo extended beyond fifteen innings, and the Philadelphia American team was tho victor vic-tor In all throe. One was n soveuteen-lnnlng soveuteen-lnnlng gamo in 1902, the socond was a twenty-Inning game, July 4, last year, and the third was today's game. Coombs Pitched Brilliant Ball. Coombs pitchod one of the strongest games over seen In this city, five times passing dnngorous bntsmou only to got the next man. He struck out eighteen men and was batted safoly fifteen times. The pitching of Harris oqualed that of Coombs for twenty-throe Innings, but In the last Inning he weakened, after tho Athletics had scored, and was hit for two three-baggors. Tho fielding was necessarily excellent, but tho fielding of Parent and Grlmshaw was especially so. Philadelphia Breaks Tie. Philadelphia scored the first run In the third on two scratch slnglos and a stolen base. Boston tied tho score In tho sixth on a throe-baggor and a single. The visitors scored the three winning runs In tho twenty-fourth. Coombs struck out, Hnrtzoll Blnglcd, Lord struck out nnd Ilartzell stole second. Schrock singled, scoring Hartzell. Thon Harris weakened and was battod for successive three-baggers by Soybold and Murphy. Scoro: R. H. E. Philadelphia 001000000 00000000000000 34 10 2 Boston 0 00001000 00000000000000 01 15 . 1 Batteries Coombs and Powers; Harris and Carrlgan and Crlger. |