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Show LARGE SCORES MADE j IN EARLY BASEBALL i i Annals of Game Are Full of Notable No-table Achievements. Greatest Number of Tallies in One In-nine In-nine Were Made by Chicago In Game Against Detroit Dele-hanty Dele-hanty Was Slugger. In the early days of baseball no club was considered to have a safe lead over the opposing tenm with anything less tliuu u margin of 20 runs to the good. With the beginning of professional baseball in the early seventies, and the launching of the National league, these conditions changed, and big scores became the exception and not the rule. Thirty-six years ago was played, at Chicago, the league game in which the record number of runs was made. Chicago and Cleveland were the opposing teams on that historic July 24, In 1882, and the former triumphed tri-umphed by a score of 35 to 4. Many other league-swatting records have stood almost as long. The greatest great-est number of home runs in a major league game was scored in a contest between Detroit and St. Louis in 1886, when seven circuit hits were made. This record has been several times exceeded ex-ceeded In minor circuits, and at .Corsi-enna, .Corsi-enna, Tex., in 1902 no less than 19 home runs were smashed out. The world's record for the greatest number num-ber of runs in one Inning of a league game has stood since 1883, when Chicago Chi-cago scored 18 runs two for each man in the "lucky seventh" of a game against Detroit, Burns and Weldman being the twirlers whose delivery fared so badly. As late as 1908, ct Cleveland, Cleve-land, ten runs were scored in one in-nlng, in-nlng, nine hits were made, and each butter who made a hit got a run. The Individual batting records for a single game are headed by the wonderful won-derful performance of Beaumont of the Pirates, who In 1899 got six hits in as many times at the bat. Even more sensational was the feat of Dele-hanty Dele-hanty of Philadelphia, in 1896, when lh a game against Chicago he went to bat five times and got four home runs and a single. |