The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-15
The Fresnoites got Nolan's money.
That vas not dishonesty" declared
Nolan: lit was Just sheer hard luck"
Baseball

nantS and a worlds championship. Chi
cage produced this year the pitching
wonder of the National league. greater
than the great Mathewson. even at
Christy's best. Mordecal Brown. with
only three working fingers. is the man
who beat Mathewson's record OF last
season. Chances star twirler this year
easily surpassed Mathewson's work.
but the New Yorker has been palpably
out of form and his admirers would
resent any comparison between the
two pitchers based on the present year
alone.
Brown won q and lost six games
this year. giving him the lofty percent
age OF .S1S. Mathewson's 1905 record
was 81 victories an dnine defeats. a
percentage of IT'S. While Mathewson
won four more games last ear than
Brown did this season, he also los,
three more, and it Is not on the cards
that Brown would have lost three out
Of seven games at the rate he vas go
ing when the Spuds cinched their
pennant an denabled Mordecal to lay
of to rest lame shoulder in prepa-
ration for the worlds SERIES Mathew
sons record this year was 90 games
Won and IL lost. leaving him per-
centage OF only .647.
Remarkable Work for Brown.
The work Of the great Chicago slab
man has been remarkable otherwise
than in the victories he has contributed
toward winning the pennant. Brown
has pitched two games in which his
opponents made only one hit, one game
in which he allowed only two hits
nd RV,0 to Snh
hits were made off him. Eight of the
q victories to his credit have been
shut outs. No pitcher in his league
has approached that record Of effec.
tiveness on the slab against all COM
ers. although Young Of Tenney's stan,
has pitched three games in which only
one hit was made on his delivery. In
general. however. Young's effective
ness has been in streaks. while
Browns has been almost continuous.
Twice Brown has held Pittsburg
down to single hit in nine innings
and one OF the occasions was the freak
battle Of July 4, in which Spuds and
Pirates made one hit apiece and
Chances men scored the only run in
the ninth. Leifield being the loser.
Of the Spud pitchers Reulbach has
been next to Brown in effectiveness.
The recent bridegroom has held his
opponents to one hit in one game. to
two hits in one game and to three hits
in one game, besides pitching seven
shutouts. Lundgren has two two-hit
games to his credit and the same num-
Der Of three-hit games. in addition to
five shutouts. Pfiester pitched one
single hit game Of 10 innings and one
game in which only three hits were
made. registering FIVE shutouts during
the year. Taylor pitched one two-hit
game while he was with st. Louis and
has shut team out without a run
three times. twice since becoming a
Spud.
Hard Luck for Duggleby.
To Duggleby of Philadelphia be-
longs the championship for hard luck
pitching. Five times this year he held
the opposing team down to three hits
lost four OF the five games. Twice
New York defeated Dugglesby on three
hits and Chicago won the same num-
Der of games OF him with the same
slender allowance of batting. In one
OF those hard-luck games which Dug
gleby lost to the Spuds he would have
shut them out ] to with only two
hits but for stumble in chasing
Slagle on the base lines, which al
lowed Jimmy to wriggle away from
a sure out. Through that small hole.
Chicago then pulled victory. Dug
gleby and Sparks pitched in a double
header against New York on Angus.
3, three hits being made off each.
Sparks won the first game BY a score
0f IN h,,t n,s0 la1~ 1<e. 10
to the Giants. l to 0.
Two No.Hit, No.Run Games.
Twice this year National league
pitchers have won shutout games in
which their opponents made no hits
in nine innings. Lush performed that
feat against Brooklyn and Eason
against st. Louis. Mcintyre Of Brook
Ign held Pittsburg down without a hit
for 10 innings August l. then lost his
game in the thirteenth inning, the
Pirates making four hits in the last
three rounds. Weimer of Cincinnati
pitched one no-hit game Of seven in
ings' duration against Brooklyn, so
did McGlynn of St. Louis. and Leifield
of Pittsburg shut Philadelphia out
without hit for six innings. Last
year Mathewson pitched the only no.
hit game in the National league.
There have been II full games this
year In which National league teams
made only one hit on a pitcher, against
only one such game last year. In ad-
dition. Drubot of st. Louis and Ames
and Ferguson Of New York have allow
ed onl one hit in contests of from five
to seven innings duration.
Fifteen games of regular length
have resulted in only two hits of
a pitcher. There were II such con-
tests last season. Weimer of the Reds
also has seven-inning, two-hit game
to his credit. Three times this year
National league pitchers have held
their opponents to two hits and lost
the game. Wicker of Cincinnati,
Richie of Philadelphia and Brown of
St. Louis were the unfortunates. Bos-
ton, Chicago and Pittsburg were the
respective lucky teams.
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