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 Decoration Day was a red-letter occasion in every city, and 106,000 people turned out to show that they had not forgotten how to shout. In Philadelphia 3,700 people were present in the morning, and 10,860 people in the afternoon. As it was ladies' day, too, fully 600 more got in on complimentary tickets, so that the attendance for the day footed up a total of 15,170.

Hutchison, the clever pitcher of the Chicago club, holds one record for 1893. He let only twenty-nine men face him in the game in which he shut out the Boston team, July 3d, at Chicago. Two hits were made off him, but one of the men was put out at second trying to make a single hit a double, and the only other man to reach first got there on called balls.

In the three games played by the Baltimore team at Chicago, July 13th, 14th and 15th, the visitors scored only six runs. Two runs out of four scored in two games were made by Kelley, and the two in the second game were credited to Long. In these three games the Baltimores scored the following sequence of runs, 3, 2 and 1.

At Macon, Ga., on July 30th, Twitchell made the longest throw on record—135 yards, 2 inches. The throw was made in the presence of 1,000 persons, including Manager Barnie, of the Louisville club; Manager Schmelz, of Chattanooga; Beard, of Macon, and Umpire Serad. The throw was measured with a tape line by Serad.

It required thirteen innings to decide the game between the Danville and Berwick teams, July 15th, at Berwick, Pa., the former then winning by a score of 3 to 2. A curious feature of the contest was, that the winners made only two safe hits off Yerrick, while the losers made six hits off Meyer.

In the fourteen innings championship game between the Washington and St. Louis teams, August 28th, at Washington, Frank, of the visitors, made five safe hits, including a double bagger, and yet scored only one run, while Wise, of the home team, made two runs off a solitary single.

One of the greatest crowds ever assembled at a Cincinnati base ball park were present at the Cincinnati-Louisville game. There were several hundred excursionists from Louisville among the 12,360 persons who jammed the stands and occupied every available bit of room on the field.

Here's an odd state of affairs: Cleveland wins nine out of twelve games from Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh takes eleven out of twelve from Baltimore, and Baltimore wins eight out of twelve from Cleveland.

NOTEWORTHY PROFESSIONAL CONTESTS OF 1893.

The first games of the season, East vs. West, played on western ball fields on June 26th, resulted in three victories for the east to two for the west, the Boston, Philadelphia and Brooklyn teams winning, respectively, in Louisville, Pittsburgh and Chicago, while the New Yorkers played a grand game at Cincinnati, the two eastern teams which lost being the Baltimores at St. Louis and the Washingtons at Cleveland.

At Cincinnati the record of the League season was broken in the way of extra innings games, as seventeen innings had to be played before the game was ended, and then neither side scored a victory, darkness ending the game after nearly three hours' play had occurred. The home team took what was thought to be a winning lead at the start, the fifth innings ending with the score at 3 to 0 in Cincinnati's favor. In the sixth innings the visitors scored their first run in the game, and in the ninth they tied the score 3 to 3. In the thirteenth innings each added a single to their score, as also in the sixteenth, and when the seventeenth innings had ended the score stood at 5 to 5 and Umpire Emslie called the game. The excitement after the ninth innings was intense. Here is the score of this remarkable contest: