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 The fat men won the game by a score of 22 to 15. All were dressed in ridiculous costumes, and Lew Simmons, of Philadelphia, umpired. The proceeds of the game were given to the Chester County Hospital.

Seven old captains of teams took part in a game at Eastern Park between the Brooklyn and Louisville teams in June, 1893. First there were Captains Foutz and Pfeffer of the opposing teams; then Captain Richardson of the Washingtons of '92; followed by Captain Burns of the old Baltimores of the eighties; next Captain Stovey of the old Athletics, with Captain Brown of the old Pittsburghs of the early eighties, and, lastly, the Umpire Captain Snyder of the old Cincinnatis of the early eighties.

A triple play was made during the game between the Holyoke and Northampton teams, July 1st, at Holyoke, Mass. In the fourth innings, with McGuirk on second and Carr on first, Egan knocked a high fly to the infield. Both Welch and Burns started for it, and it fell between them. Then Welch picked it up, touched second, putting out Carr, threw to third, cutting off McGuirk, and then Garland threw to first, shutting out Egan, who was watching the play without attempting to run.

A curious coincidence of the three championship games of the New England League, played June 7th, was that in each it required ten innings to decide the question of victory. At Fall River and Dover the Portland and Lewiston teams won by the respective scores of 4 to 3 and 5 to 4. At Lowell, however, the home team proved victorious by 11 to 9 over the Brockton club, Whitney winning the game by bringing in two men after two were out in the tenth innings.

The best record of victories pitched in in 1893 goes to the credit of "Dod" Clarke, of the Erie club of the Eastern League. But Clarke's record does not equal that made by George Hodson, of the Jamestown club of the New York and Pennsylvania Leagues in 1892, who pitched in 51 victories out of 67 games; 22 of the victories being in consecutive order. This is the record thus far in the number of victories pitched in in any one season.

The Cleveland Leader says that "there is one rule that is constantly disobeyed by umpires, and that is that which says the base runner shall have the benefit of the doubt when the ball and the runner appear to get to the base at the same time. Every club in the League with fast left-handed batters was handicapped by this disobedience of a plain rule." The rule in question really appears only on first base, but it should be applicable to all the bases.

The crack pitcher of Yale College nine, Carter—the best in the college arena in 1893—gave a surprising exhibition of his prowess at New Haven, on May 2d, when he shut out the crack Brown nine. Not until one man was out in the last innings did a single batsman reach first base. Then Gillon got the only Brown single of the game. Carter struck out 18 and either put out or assisted out 24 of the 27 opposing batsmen. The score was 7 to 0.

The Cincinnati team, from July 4th to July 10th, played five successive championship games, which were so closely contested that there was a difference of only one run at the finish of each, two being lost with the Philadelphias, while the last three games—two with the Brooklyns and one with the Baltimores—were each unexpectedly won by a lucky streak of batting in the last half of the ninth innings.

In the game between the Baltimore and Louisville clubs, June 6th, at Baltimore, Jennings made a remarkable play in the fifth innings, when McGraw was on first base. Robinson hit directly over second base and Jennings leaped forward, fell upon the ball and threw it, while lying on the ground, to Pfeffer, in time to retire McGraw, who was running to second.

The ninth innings cut a large figure in several championship games of the National League and American Association on July 6th. In it Louisville made the four runs that tied New York, Cincinnati made three runs that beat Brooklyn, Pittsburgh scored five runs that downed Boston, and Philadelphia made one run that forced Chicago to play eleven innings to win.