Show The Telegrams Telegram's Panorama of Baseball A Pictorial Highlight History of the National Game I of I f t. 7 2 d 4 Z 97 L Lr r 4 L I t f. f 4 L' L p di L R 7 Cd 4 8 3 Id hI 4 S r 4 L 4 d I L h- h d. 4 L A 4 AyI d. d C dd 2 yI fL Z u 4 a d f Z J 2 z P What shall I do in regard to the championship ip flag That's h how w this letter starts Harry Wright wrote it in 1872 to Alexander One of the fathers of baseball He meant the pennant It was the first time a pennant had been suggested The first championship names cames had been played tire the year before Wrights Wright's idea of a nice little flag flaa was one thirty feet lona Bec Because use Tim Murname Could Not Bat He Discovered Discovered Discovered Dis Dis- Dis- Dis covered the Value of Bunting Who was waa Tim Murnane lIe He was once a a. great first baseman Those who recall him sa say that he as swift as an arrow bot both in his In- In fielding and In his base runnI running g. g But Buthis Buthis Buthis his work ork at the bat was a a. sad and sorry sight eight One day by accident hI his bat gaethe gave ga the ball a weak tap tap half half hearted unplanned It died in front of the pitchers pitcher's box before the pitcher had waked up to the significance of the weak little thing And when he be did wake up Tim was on This set Tim Murnane to thinking He whittled one side aide of his bat flat flat fIat against regulations regulations and and practised until he could lay them down In whatever direction he wanted Thus the bunt was born It must b be admitted the baseball records disagree however there are some who believe belle that Dicky I Pearce Invented the tle bunt way back in 1866 1860 I Murnane l later became a writer of authority on baseball matters and was wae baseball editor of or the tho Boston Globe He lie was one of the historic group that took baseball to England In 1874 1814 After Murnane the bunt fell into disuse and as recent as 1889 1883 It was referred to b by the sport writers as among the freak stunts of batting In 1894 the Baltimore Orioles showed how the bunt could help win a pen pen- nant We have hay unearthed an old I letter ter of Harry Wrights Wright's showing how they managed pennants in 1872 Championship Championship Cham Cham- games began in 1871 1811 In the theN N National association when the Athletics Athletics Athletics Ath Ath- were In the lead and Boston won von so continuously that victory took the wind out of the sails calls of the game and sportsmen stayed awa away fearing to face a foregone conclusion The National league started off oft with Chicago the winner followed again by Boston and then Providence and then Ansons Anson's Chicago team with its inside game The series that now holds the fans has been holding them for twenty years ears for the Boston Red ox and the Pittsburg its Pirates es began a f 1903 N the brilliant history of world championships championships champion champion- ships and in those years Inc public has paid over seven millions 0 of dollars dollars dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars to witness the National and American leagues struggle There was nothing more healthy for ball than this rI rivalry But pennants were not always alwa's the fashion In Ill 1368 a series of or games m s held forth to the winner a gold ball presented b by Frank Queen Esquire of or the New York Clipper won by the Athletics and medals were vero given to individual players among them Al AI Reach and George Wright In California Cali Call fornia the tho same mO fashion reigned Copyright 1923 In U. U S. S and Great Britain by North American Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Alliance All rights reserved TOMORROW THE MAN WHO SAVED THE GAME v 1 t e. e This is Tim Murnane He couldn't I bat and because of that one day he found himself safe at first Then he started to figure out I how it happened That's the way waya I Ia a lot of great discoveries are I made anyway |