Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1918 — HARD LUCK MARK IS HELD BY LOUISVILLE [ARTICLE]

HARD LUCK MARK IS HELD BY LOUISVILLE

Lost Twenty-Six Consecutive Games in Old A. A. Circuit No League Club Has Ever Suffered So Many Reverses in a Row— American League Record Established by Boston. A baseball world’s record was hung up June 22, 1889, which has never since been equaled or surpassed. Moreover, no club In any league entertains any ambition to break this record. On the date mentioned the Louisville club of the old American association lost its twenty-sixth consecutive game. No league club hag ever suffered so many reverses in a row. The following year, 1890, the Pittsburgh Pirates were apparently Intent upon smashing the Louisville record, but they fell short by three games, losing twenty-three games in succession. Although Nlmlck’s men failed to deprive Louisville of Its dubious record, they did succeed in setting up a National league record. The American leagde record for straight defeats was in 1906, when the Boston Red Sox, under the management of James J. Collins, were vanquished in twenty straight games. The old American association, in which Louisville set up’ a hard luck record that has endured for nearly thirty years, was classed as a major league. In the following year, however, it was another story, and the team that had tasted so much defeat in such big bunches captured the pennant in 1890. Cincinnati was the first champion of the old association In 1882. , The following year the Philadelphia Athletics were victorious, and the fcew York Metropolitans annexed the flag in 1884, and played Providence, the National league .winners, in the first series for the professional world’s championship, but were defeated by the Rhode Island club in three straight games. St Louis then took four straight pennants in the American association. Brooklyn led in that circuit in 1889, losing to New York in the contest for the world’s flag. Brooklyn went into, the National league in 1890 and played Louisville, the American association champion, in the world’s series, each club winning three games, when the series was stopped by cold weather. Boston captured the last pennant of the old A. A. in 1891, but no world’s series was played that year.