Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-21
STARTED WOOD ON WANING
STREAK AND TIED az ron MN
-sToPPED JoHhson.
WAS A BATTLE ROYAL
me sixteenth Straight Victory 10,
tho Boston Crack hurlar Wase, N.
Gained Over No-t4It Ean
Hamilton. V

o,n, ~ 49, vtCtOTy lAeL sunday
w. tne ST Louis Browns. has tiod
sne American league record for Con.
.s sta.m victories and gives promisestn
90. another record. It was de.
va over the Browns that started
Mood on MS winning streak; itswaa II
800. vyer the same team that ber-
ll..ed MN to tie the record fourier
Soes sixteen straight victories haSe
Deen taken from those same Browns
those TOUR games the Browns have
scored put two runs and those same
tow,y browns stopped Walter Joni.
sons winning streak. gF.sa
me Browns realizing that they had
started wood on his great record went
mo tne game last Sunday with the m.
SMOKEY Joe who registered his Six.
,eneion Of breaking his winning streak
Dut tney We're foiled by the clever
p,tcner. Pitted against Wood, wAs
Ear Hamilton the Browns clever
soutnpaw hurler Of no-hit fame, and
.nese two nurlers participated In one
Of me greatest pitching duels ever
staged In any park.
An Eight Inning Afaair. .s.,:
wood won his victory Ia an etshf.
inning game, the contest being called
one round short on account CT. dark.
ness. The Browns tied the game IL
the seventh and at the end or that
round 1t was too dark to- play and Il
would have been erninently fair to
Doth sides to have called the. game
tnen, but APPARENTLY the stage was Ut
Tor another Wood victory X pcssibls
ana the curtain was not dropped IN
til he got It,
The Brownie southpaw out-pitched
the Boston star for the first Ave III,
nings and was working or. more than
even terms with him until the fatal
eighth. and then, as fortune would
nave 1t. Wood himself was the naat
to turn the tide. With ono, out Joa.
eph walked; scratch hit followed,
and another out. Speaker was intNn.
tionally passed and the bases WAr1
fliled. Hamilton let loose, a bad pitch,
Stephens let It get by in the dark ana
Wood raced home with theswinniE rim
q his own game, for after permlttins
the Browns to grope through their hAjl
lof the inning In the gloom the unpires
called the game. Woods bacon had
been saved and hts way left clear 10
beat the record Of his greatest rival
Walter Johnson. &,
6smc WAS Sensational, one.
| The game itself was one OF the most
sensational of the season Hamilton
early demonstrated that he was srixht
and he moved down the free hitting
Red Sox for the first four innings With.
out hit He got the sort OF support
that encouraged him to do his best ana
the way the Browns on the Offensive
nibbled at Woods offerings further IN.
couraged him to the belief that ~ ne
kept up his pitching he might have
the honor OF being the man ia take
Woods measure. Once the Browns
filled the bases, bit could net put the
run over for Hamilton. They binkfed
on Joe in practically every inning.
The first break in Hamilton'G
mastery game came In the nth inning.
Gardner walked and after Engie had
gone out Wagner got the first hit Tor
his team. sending Gardner TO third. a
sacrifice ny by Cady scored him.
The Browns evened up In the
seventh, when Pratt doubled and went
to third on Stovall's ny out to center.
Compton as a pinch hitter for Stanley
sent Pratt over with the score. Wal.
lace also singled and Hamilton had I
chance to clinch his game. but 10
famed for the third out Of the inning.