Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-08-29
Sporting Writer Of the Inter Ocean
Tells of Wonderful Work Done
BY Sox Moundman Against
Boston.

Sunday at Chicago. This same
Walsh will pitch against the Ottumwa
club at the game here Wednesday
August 80, when the Speed family and
the Chicago White Sims will amuse
and delight throng of fans. The feat
of Walsh Sunday makes his visit to
this city all the more important, and
no bug within one-hundred miles OF
Ottumwa should miss the game, as
Comiskey has guaranteed that Walsh
will work against the Egan clan. The
game will start promptly at o'clock
Wednesday,. The gate admission will
be fifty-cents, and grandstand seats
can be reserved now at Hutchisons
Palace billiard hall or Lynch's Ameri'
can theater for an additional twenty
five cents. The stand seats are going
like hot cakes, and II you want some
OF 'em, get busy today.
Hewitt's Story.
Concerning the wonderful work OF
Walsh against the Boston club Sun
day, Fred ]. Hewitt, sporting writer
for the Chicago 1nter-Ocean says:
Ed Walsh, the great pitching favor
tie of the White Sox fans, jumped
further into national fame Sunday at
Comiskey's park Walsh defeated the
Boston bunch by 5 to 0 score, allow
ing only tWenty-seven men to face MIN
during the contest.
Walsh walked one man, and this
was questionable, because Evans
Judgment on balls and strikes gave
Engle the verdict in the fourth, and
this after a session where two play
ers rushed into each other In right
field and confused everybody.
Had tn conditions been norman AT
that time Walsh would have tanned
Engle and gone through the game with
a record Of twenty-seven men clean
facing him. AS it was, one got on, but
never got beyond the first bag.
Three pitchers have earned greater
fame than Walsh did yesterday.
Denton T. Young, the "old Cy' per-
son. pitching for Boston on May 3,
1904, shut out the Athletics without
hit or run and never allowed man
to get to first base
The late Addie Joss, pitching for
Cleveland, defeated the White Sox on
Oct, 2, 1908, with Walsh pitching.
Both of them pitched no hit game, but
a base runner got on In Walsh's case
on an error. He went to third when
Isbell hit him in the back, big Ed
catching him on the sack. He scored
on a questionable out, the second OF
the inning, and the White Sox lost the
game / to 0. In this game catcher
Ossie Schreck, who developed JOSS,
Moore, Kenna and other pitchers on
the Cleveland team, had his finger
broken with one of JOSS powerful
curves.
Jesse Tannehill, brother Of Lee,
now working on the White Sox outfit
proved himself hero on Aug. ~,
1904. when he shut out Chicago with
out a hit Or run.
In the history of baseball only these
three efforts mentioned surpass or
even equal that Of Walsh yesterday.
The spitball king came into his own
and will be crowned as one OF the
greatest ever in the history Of the
national game.
Walsh at Zenith Of Career.
II is only now that Walsh has
reached the zenith of his career. Ed
has been great for some years, put
he has to hand 1t back to Comiskey LOT
making things possible for him. When
Walsh was wild and erratic Comiskey
nursed him according to the old base
ball expression, carried him along and
put him up in the last few years the
finished twirler.
walsh isn't the great pitcher for
only one day. He is one of those care
fully developed instruments that mas
been good for years and never loses
class.
Yesterday Walsh showed his great
ness. He pitched the game OF his
life. although many other OF his ef-
forts we're wonderful. When he was
beaten by Joss in that memorable
game on Oct. 2, 1908, he had a record
Of striking out fifteen men. After this
he increased this mark to eighteen,
and It stands today the best for nine
inning game.
That game three years ago was
record one, but as Walsh was defeated
It didn't class with that of yesterday
when twenty-seven men were officially
credited with facing him and only
one made first base. That was Engle
in the fourth when he received a
questionable walk.
So 1t is that Walsh rests as one of
the greatest pitchers the world ever
saw. He has demonstrated everything
that all the great pitchers have ever
done and his feat yesterday sets him
upon the highest pinnacle. If Big Ed
should fall down tomorrow his fame
would forever live in the history of
baseball just the same.
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