Omaha daily bee., 1912-01-28

on the firing line Of the Baltimore team
OF iSss-Si-s5; every mothers son OF their
was regular loser In the big leagues
until they got berth on the greatest
base ball team that was ever gotten to.
sether," team that founded. Invented
and introduced the present sryIe and sys.
tenn Of inside base ball.
"Billy" Hcffer, Esper "Ai' Maui,
Jack MoMahon. Gleason and George
Hemming had very little In the pitching
line. only control and a nice uniform,
and, Il might be added. q world Of conf
dence In tho tnam behind them.
Marty" UToole made great strike
out record In the American association,
a league with plenty OF experienced hit
tiers.
o'Toole is not always trying Tor strike
out, but the stuff he hands out regularly
is hard 10 solve, and IN consequence many
batters Whit This man would make a
good showing on any team, and II his
arm keeps strong next season, the great
and only o'Tooie may smash the strike
out record for all leagues. Il
When II comes right down to facts,
Hugh Daily. the phenomenal one-arm
twrler OF the Cleveland National league
team and the Chicago Union association
club during 1854 holds the strike-out rec
erd OF the country for one season In the
major league. Daly pitched fifty-four
games that year and famed 4sl batters,
an average Of $50 per game waddell,
twenty Years later, almost eqtAaled II, but
in all probability Days record win never
Dc SURPASSED in the major leagues.
Tom Ramsey the celebrated left. handler
who twirled for Louisville during isss-sl-
w. did some wonderful stunts In the
strike-out line. Ramsey was master of
wonderful drop" bali that was a COM
plete puzzle to all batters OF that dav.
He has a record Of striking out nine bat
tiers In succession. and In 1887 struck out
seventeen men In a nine-ianina game
under the four strlke-out rule.
The great Charley Sweeney was IN the
same company with Shaw that year. and
they moved down batsmen right and LEFT.
Hugh DAILY shares honors with Sweeney
In the str1ke-out record for one game
in major leagues, On June 7, 1884 swee.
ney struck out ninateen men In the nins
innings. The Boston players OF the Ma.
tlonal league were the victims. Daily, in
| the same year. famed nineteen batters
Of the Boston Union association club In
nlne-inning contest. sweeney had ter.
rifle speed. every bit as much as the fam.
Gus Walter johnson Of our day.
Charles t''LAdy'D BALDWIN, Big Stem.
myer and John C'Phenomenal'D Smith all
won fame for themselves by tanning
heavy batters Smith, while pitching
for Newark during 1856, faced almost
every big league team In the country.
and they all fell before his left-handed
curves. In the fan OF 1885, In game
against the Baltimore team OF the Amer
lean association. Smith held his opno-
nents to no hits and no runs. just twenty
seven men coming 10 bat lie struck
out IL OF them.
| In 1859 the great Amos Russo made his
appearance in fast company pitching for
| Indianapolis. then In the National league.
During Isso-si-ss he retired many batsmen
by the strike-out route. With his ire
mendous speed he was a terror 10 bat
| tiers for many years
WaddelI. Mathewson. RED" Ames and
Ed Walsh, OF later days, all had one or
more seasons where th4s averaged six