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Fulham Take Cup with Historic Thumping of Spireites.

As if to punctuate the high attack nature of the EOI Cup series, the sixth and final match of the series ended up as the most run-happy of all. Fulham completed their quest for the Cup with a 17 runs to five tarring and feathering of the Chesterfield baseball club. The highlight of the match from Fulham’s point of view was the sixth innings in which they plated ten runs to put away the match for good, after which most of the 29,000 spectators watching at Saltergate trudged wearily home, presumably to lick their wounds, forget about baseball for a while, and prepare themselves for the Chesterfield football club’s home match against Darlington on Saturday.

In no match during the series did the winning side score fewer than nine runs, and the 17 scored on Monday were the most by a club in an EOI series. A grand total of 90 runs were scored between the two clubs in the six matches. The previous high mark occurred in the 1922 series during which Walsall and Manchester United combined to score 81 runs in seven games.