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Show I SPORTS 1 511 FUNNIEST THING EVER SEEN ON A BALL FIELD IIP ADOPTED, THIS WOULD SURE CROWD THE STANDS I'll' .3k "' - ' V Hii .'C-lv ' x '" .w"r ? ' . I NK '"" I'rl It was e vc TV x' r- FvWMicsr Pi-Ay T - fJ'Nw'5 x &f-z&f I BvR- SAW Lli SS. Hjjjj BUI Speas, outfielder of the Port- lU land club of the Pacific Coast league, l tells "what he considers the funniest B thiner ho has ever seen on a ball field, I and strange to relate, two major Hi I teague players havo mentioned, this H I i 8ame Incident as the funnleBt thing 11 they ever saw. Here's the storv: IjN "You might not believe tblB," writes H jl B,1, "but I've got several clippings to Jil prove it. It happened in 190G In the Hjj Pennsylvania and Ohio league. I was 11 i Playing with Mansfield, and Old Doc Ulll ' Bailey, the old-time Columbus pitcher, EfJ was doing the twirling for us. Our 1 opponents had us beaten about 40 to i 0, when one of them caught hold of Bill ' one and slammed it down the- rteht jl j field foul lino. b Li '"phe umpire threw in another ball Hi! and he knocked it fdul again." Then Jl he slammed one at me In left field, and after breaking my neck to keep it from rolling Into the next state,, I got it and threw it Jn to the plate. Only it hit the grand stand instead. Well, In the meantime the fielders had recovered the foul balls and the shortstop short-stop had one running a man down between be-tween second and third and the second sec-ond baseman had the oth'er trying to catch a runner between first and second sec-ond ''The catcher was chasing the ball I threw in. It looked like a fire in a Chinese laundry the way everybody was running around. I was almost sick from laughing out there -in loft field. The ump eventually filled the foul balls out of play and held that .the ball I threw 'at the grand stand was the right one. But that didn't change the fact that horo wore three balls in play at one time." Hits 110 110 1005 San Francisco Runs , 000 001 00 1 Hits 001 012 21 7 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. LosL Pet. hiladelphia 66 51 .-665 Brooklyn 66 57 .637 Boston 63 65 .534 Chicago 59 60 496 St. Louis 59 64 .478 New York 55 61 .474 Pittsburg 68 65 .471 Cincinnati Si 67 .446 TWO GAMES WITH SCORE 2 TO 0. Boston, Aug. 31. Good pitching enabled en-abled Boston to take both ends of today's to-day's double-header rrom Cincinnati, ench by the same score, 2 to 0. Nehf, who was In the box In tho first contest, con-test, allowed only four hits and did not yield a pasB. In the second game Hughes gavo only three hits and ono base on balls. Compton, the Bravos' new outficldor, made a good showing In the socond game, getting three hits and Bcoring both of Boston's runs. First Game. Cincinnati 000 000 0000 Boston 000 100 10 2 Second Game. Cincinnati 000 000 000 0 BOBton . 000 100 10 2 PHILLIES CLOSE SUCCESSFUL STAY. Philadelphia, Aug. 31. Philadelphia wound up a successful home stand by broaklng oven with St. Louis today, tho home team winning the first game 3 to 2 and SL Louis winning the second, sec-ond, 7 to 2. The opening event was a duel between Rixey and Doak, tho winning run being scored in the sov-enth sov-enth Inning on Paskert's single, an error by Huggins and Cravath's single. sin-gle. With two men out and a runner run-ner on second in the ninth, Alexander Alexan-der took Rixey's place and fanned Gonzales. First Game. St. Louis 000 000 2002 Philadelphia 000 020 10 3 Second Game. SL Louis 001 003 0307 Philadelphia 100 000 1002 RUBE AND CHENEY JOIN BROOK-LYNS. BROOK-LYNS. Brooklyn, Aug. 31. Brooklyn broke even with Pittsburg today in two thrilling contests. Pittsburg won the first, 5 to 3, by rallying in the ninth, driving home three runs off Coombs and Douglas aftor one out, Brooklyn taking tho second. 3 to 2 Cheney, brought from Chicago yesterday, yes-terday, reported to Brooklyn today and pitched seven innings of the second sec-ond game In good style, one one earned earn-ed run being made off him. Rube Marquard, bought from New York, also al-so reported today and pitched the last two innings for Brooklyn. He "ended the game by striking out Joe Wagner in the ninth, when Pittsburg had two on bases and two ouL A two-base hit by Cutahaw In the eighth after Daubert and Stengel had singled won the game for Brooklyn and incidentally incident-ally kept Brooklyn in second place ' by a scant margin. In order to make room for Mar- : quard, the Brooklyn club released John Hummell, but will re-engage him tomorrow. The players limit rule runs out tonight. President Te-ner Te-ner of the National league has formally formal-ly sanctioned the transfer of Cheney and Marquard. First Game. Pittsburg 010 000 0136 Brooklyn 0110010003 Second Game. Pittsburg 000 110 0002 Brooklyn 010 000 02 3 LAVENDER THROWS HITLESS ARTICLE. New York, Aug. 31 New York won Its series from Chicago, two games to one, by dividing a double-header today Chicago won the first giime, 2 to 0. and Now York took the second, sec-ond, 7 to 1. .Inmpii 1 .fivfrwlfr Tjllc.hftil a no-hit game for the visitors in the first contest, con-test, only two men reaching base. Merkle was safe on Fisher's fumble fum-ble in the second inning, and the same player received a base on balls in the eighth. Williams saved Lavender's Lav-ender's perfect game in tho. seventh inning, when he made a sonBatlonal running catch on Doyle. Williams also hit one of th longest home run drives ever seen on the Polo grounds Vaughan and Adams were easy for , the Giants in tho second game, while Benton' did fine work in tho pinches. First Game. Chicago 000 110 0002 New York 000 000 0000 Second Game. Chicago 000 100 0001 Now York 201 100 12 7 |