Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-28
442UBE" WADDELL TWICE BEAT WALTER JOIINSONS !
~ WONDERFUL 1910 STRIKEOUT RECORD
Hugh Daily the Old OneArm Pitcher Still Holds the Tanning
Title Having Struck OFT 464 Batters in 81
Games Back in 1884,

Tho wonderful record made by Walter
johnson In the American League In 1910
created lots Of talk and arguments as to
whether 1t Is a world record or not. Cold
figures show that It is motif Is not even
the record Of the American League.
9. Edward waddell holds the title. In
two different years did the big southpaw
beat Walters record.
Both men possess terrific speed and
have fine control. WaddelI had a shade
on johnson in the way Of curves.
However. the records made by these
men are wonderful considering the clever
and experienced batters they had to face
in the American League.
In the National League few pitchers OF
recent years have attracted much atten-
ton by making big strike-out records
Mathewson and Red" Ames of the
New York Giants have had two seasons
where they averaged six or more strike
Reds and "Matty' have q record Of fan
ming sixteen men in q regular contest,
feat that hasn't been pulled off in the
National since 1856. when John G. Clark
son and Frank Gilmore-'Connie" Mack
was Gilmore's catcher at that time-each
struck out sixteen men.
Generally speaking, the top notchers
seldom try for strike-out records. A
twirler who sacrifices everything for
strike-out record is a poor asset to q
team. But there are exceptions-a pitch
er whose delivery and curves are of such
nature that they puzzle batters to the ex-
tent that they fall to hit the ball hard
or strike out shows that twirler to have
more stuff than the average pitcher, and
he will show class with a tailender, as In
the case of Johnson, Rucker and others.
NAM asses can be cited where very
ordinary twirlers have made a great
reputation and record in games won by
being on a winning team. For instance,
just look at the list of slab artists that
he avlx lin R<~ h. nol<
team Of 1S95-96-S7: every mothers son
of them was a regular loser In the big
lea cues undl he cot q berth non tine
greatest base ball team ever gotten to-
and introduced the present style and sys-
ten inside base bali.
Billy" Hotter, Esper. "Ar' Maui.
Jack Mcmahon. Gleason and George
Memmins had very little in the pitching, pitching
and. it might be ado world Of con-
fdence in the team behind Them
Mar.y O'Tooie made a great strike-out
league with plenty of experienced hitters.
O'Toole Ia not always trying for strike
outs, but the stun he hands out regularly
Ii hard TO solve and in consequence many
oatters whit. This man would make
600 + in on any team. and II hls
arm keeps strong next season the great
and only OToole may smash the strike
out record for all leagues.
When ii comes right down to facts,
Hugh DAILY. the phenomenal one-arm
twirler of the Cleveland National League
team and the Chicago Union Association
club during 1884. holds the high strike-out
record of the country for one season in
the major leagues. DAILY pitched, fifty
four "a mes tina, year ana fcInea ga ga
tiers, an average Of $50 per game. Wad-
dell twenty years later, almost equaled
IT.. hut In all probability Days record
will never be surpassed In the major
Tom Ramsey, the celebrated left-hander
who twirled for Louisville during 1SS6-67-
$3.50, did some wonderful stunts in the
strike-out line. Ramsey was master OF
plete puzzle to all batters Of that day.
He has q record of striking out nine bat
tiers in succession, and in 1887 struck out
seventeen men in a nine-inning game
under the four strike-out rule.
Other pitchers who performed great
feats in striking out batsmen in the oiden
days were Jim Whitney. John g. Clark
son and Charles Humngton. IN the ma Ma
Ed Cushman. three left-handers famed
for fooling batters In the old American
Association. All these twirlers were first
class men in every depSTsen. q SHAVE sne
the erratic southpaw. who pitched for
Detroit and Boston during the early 6Os.
was famous for whiting batters. In 1854
he did phenomenal work, striking out as
high as eighteen men in nine innings.
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 strike-out record for one game In
major leagues. June Z. 1884 Sweeney
struck out nineteen men In nine innings.
The Boston players Of the National
League were his victims. Daily. in the
same year, famed nineteen batters of
the Boston Union Association club in
nine-inn'n g contest. Sweeney had terrtnc
speed, every bit as much as the famous
Walter johnson Of our day.
Charles c'Lady'o Baldwin big" Stem
myer and John c'Phenomenaf) Smith
ali won fame for themselves by tanning
heavy batters. Smith while pitching for
Newark during 1850. faced almost
every big league team in the country.
and they all fell before his left-handed
curves In the fall of 1885. In a game