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Show OLD-TIME BASEBALL RECORDS STILL HOLD Marks for Throwing and Running Made Years Ago. Who Is the fastest baseball playerT Who can encircle the bases In tha shortest time? Who can throw a baseball the greatest great-est distance? Who Is the greatest fungo hitter? Names of major league players will come In bunches In answer to these severnl questions. Babe Ruth of the Yankees, Cy Williams of the Phillies, Ken Williams of the Browns and Harry Har-ry Ilellinann of the Tigers are all past masters of the art of fungo hitting. Bob Meusel of the Yankees Is known nationally as baring one of the grentest whips In baseball. Eddie Collins Col-lins of the White Sox, George Grantham Gran-tham of the Cubs and Frank Frlsch of the Giants are all wonderfully fast players. Do they hold the record for the best time In encircling the bases? Take a look at the records. The record for fungo hitting Is 354 feet 10 Inches nnd was made by C. It. Partridge of Hanover, N. II., In October, Octo-ber, 1880. The record has probably never been beaten because no longer are official records taken of fungo hitting. Then, too. It Is doubtful whether any of the parks Is large enough to permit a fungo hitting contest. Nevertheless, It Is interesting to note that the fungo hitting record has remained untouched un-touched since 18S0. The record for throwing a baseball Is S81 feet 2Vi Inches and Is held by It. C. Campbell of North Adams, Mass., and was made In 1887. This record will probably stand for a long time to come because of the possibility of injury to players competing com-peting In a long-distance throwing contest. The record for circling the bases Is held by 0. Fulforth of Itaclne, Wis. His time of 15 seconds was made In 1879. |