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CHARLESTON’S HORACE FARLEY GOES CYCLING!
CF HITS FIRST CYCLE IN THE SEAL IN 7 YEARS

Charleston, SC (5/18/1903) – It took extra innings, but the Charleston Battery’s star center fielder Horace Farley made a bit of history on Monday afternoon, going for the Southeastern & Atlantic League’s first cycle in more than seven years.

Farley, in his thirteenth year playing for Charleston and jokingly called “The Ho Train” by the more facetious of his Battery teammates, accomplished the feat by doing the following:

• 1st inning: hit a single off Evansville starting pitcher Robert Hagerty
• 3rd inning: hit an RBI double off Hagerty
• 4th inning: struck out by Hagerty
• 6h inning: walked by Hagerty
• 8th inning: hit an RBI triple off Hagerty
• 10th inning: hit a two-run HR of reliever Edward Lapley
• TOTAL: 4/5, 4 RBI, 3 R, 1 BB, 1 K, 10 TB, 1 OF Assist

Unfortunately, Farley’s heroics came in a losing effort as visiting Evansville won 11-10 in extra innings thanks to three runs in the top of the tenth.

This was the third cycle in the history of the SEAL, with the previous one coming from Savannah’s Leon Miller on April 18th, 1896 (also) against Evansville and the first cycle achieved by Atlanta’s Beauregard Kemp on June 30th, 1892 against the Memphis Showboats.