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Show 9TOOD FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS. Charley Radbourn's Great Feat of Pitching Never Equated. In tho twenty-one years that hav gone by since It was made, no pitcher has ever equaled tho record of Charles Itadbourn, tho mainstay of tho victorious victor-ious Province Grays when that team won the championship of tho National Lensuo In 1884 for tho second time. Tho club had but two first class batteries, bat-teries, Itadburn and Qllllgan, Sweeney and N'ava, and it seemed crippled when Charles Sween v expelled from tho nlno and the league In tho twelfth week of tho season for conduct characterized char-acterized as disgraceful. After July 23 the bulk of the pitching fell on Itadburn, who heforo that time had been at outs with the management. But when lib found that everything depended on him, Hadbo.trn worked in a manner that has never been equaled and never will he In those das, when a pitcher feels overworked with more than two days n week. Ho promised Manager Bancroft ho would faco all the opposing teams until tho pennant was won, nnd ho carried out that promlso, wdnnlng twenty consecutive names In August nnd September, nnd twenty-nlno games with but ono break In the run. |