Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-02
His Wing Wins Flag.

1t was Big Bills pitching in 1904 that
gave his team it's second premiership in
the American League race. In the closing
days Dineen never faltered, and to his
double defeat Of Jack Chesbro. the pitch
ing phenomenon of that year, on the last
two days Of the race. may be attributed
Boston's second American League gon-
falcon.
Jack Chesbro, the North Adams boy
who broke into fast company with Pitts
burg, reached the zenith Of his fame in
1904, when he pitched the New York
Americans to within one game Of the
pennant. He really pitched the pennant
away, well, because it was a wild
pitch that gave Boston the deciding game
In that season Jack. the mainstay of the
club, pitched flfty-three games. and won
forty-one of them, the best major league
record for nearly two decades.
That year Chesbro established the rec
ord of consecutive games won by pitchers
in the American League. with string of
fourteen. Ed Ruelbach just escaped pass
the Giants clipping his wings after four
teen wins. Early in the season Ed worked
like one of the backsliders.
Carl Lundgren was one of the stars of
the champion Cubs. He attracted atten-
ton by his pitching In 1901. and his work
i'm 1906, when the Chicagos wrested the
championship from New York. was OF the
stellar order. In 1904 Lundgren won
1896 he captured the same number and
lost but six.
He had fallen behind the Cub speed last
spring. and Frank Chance sent him to
Toronto. He couldn't show there. and he
dropped out. He is now pitching independ-
ent ball in and around Chicago. Lundgren
was a college star. He created a furore
by his work for the University Of Illinois.
which he entered in 1898. with Jake Stahl
at the other end of the battery. He
signed with the CIlhS in 1902
Out Of Spotlight.
Jesse Tannehill, the former Boston
American star, is another who passed in
1909. In 1895 he pitched a nO-hit, no-run
game against the Roanoke club. Pitts
burg got him the following season, and
newly organized New York American
club.
In 1904 he was traded to the Boston
Americans for Tom Hughes. He gave
Griffith cause to lament the swap, for II
was largely by his great work that Bos-
ton got it's second pennant. In that
year Tannehill won twenty-one games,
lost eleven and tied one
Washington let Tannehill out last Sep
TENDER. He was tagged for the American
Association. but he refused to go down
the league ladder. He has announced
tHdt he VIII pllcii ihoepeiAehe pdIi. his
bank roll is not wizened, and he can
worry along without swinging his salary
arm. He is thirty-four years old.
The great year of Tom Hughes. just
shipped to the American Association fold
by Cantillon, was when he helped Dineen
and Young to pitch the Boston Ameri-
cans in line for their first pennant, in
1903. He was a terror for the American
batsmen that season, landing twenty-one
out Of twenty-eight games. Next year he
went back. and the Yankees took a
chance on him. They traded him to
Washington the same season for al Orth.
Hughes is at present on the pay roll of
the Minneapolis American Association
team.
Handsome" Nick Altrock is another
ma jor league discard of last season. His
first year In select society was 1902, when
he was with the Boston American club
Comiskey secured him the next year, and