The Detroit times., 1913-01-23
Whitfield Nine Men in 20 Game
Against Walter Johnson
at Washington
HELD THE NATIONALS
TO TWO MEASLY HITS
Johnson Himself Famed Six
Tigers and Let Them Have
Only Three Bingles
BY RALPH L. YoNKER.


You know that George Mullin leads
the riger nurlers in their procession
toward the hall OF fame with his no.
hit game o. last Fourth OF July. but
did you know, also, that he leads the
'i'iger pitchers in the strike-out col
nmn. with nine breezes 10 his credit
In one game?
You didnt?
Listen: On May 81, 1912. at Wash.
ilgton ID. c., George Mullin veteran
lurler OF the Detroit Tigers, beat Wal
ter Johnson, more or less widely
,nown as the best pitcher in the
american league, to 0. tanning nine
n and creating a record which M
1iger pitcher was able TO demolish.
IL Is true that the Tigers didn't rank
very high In the number OF strikeouts
their hurlers were able to amass.
Hamilton of the Browns whiffed IA
men In single game. Johnson fan.
ned 13 oEce. Mcconnell OF the
Yankees stiAed II Browns in single
contest
There are nine men In the Mullin
class. claiming nine strike-outs in a
siEslc nine-inning game There were
more than nine games having this
lumber or strikeouts but some were
lger than the regulation contest and
one had more than one pitcher
g;;t OF them all there was probably
me more spectacular than that of
CIR friend.
IL was shortly after the Tigers
rike in Philadelphia and an amor
Ions crowd turned out to see the val
,'nis who had escaped Ban Johnson.
walter Johnson vs.. George Mullin
g~Hmised good battle. except that
'cbb was In the stands rather than
Il, the He'd, which made II look
raiher easy for Johnson.
The big blond did pitch a fairly
/ c~ed game at that He held the Tig-
RS 10 three hits, and famed six.
}Ish. Delananty and Moriarty each
r"cceeded in combing single of
Walter
Hut Mullin had even the wonderful
alter stalled. Mullin allowed only
t'vo hits, one OF which was a double
ir Johnson himself, and struck out
line. passing only one and hitting
Cze.
or the two hits off Mullin, Johnson's 5
Vas the only legitimate one. He
Aanged the ball up against the bull
fign In the outfleld few inches above
Sam Crawford's fingers. AT that II
the fence hadn't been there Sam
could have copped It easily. The
other hit came In the ninth Inning
when Moeiler beat out slow roller
The signing OF Donie Bush will un-
doubtedly be of value In hustlinS
Ftong the contracts or other veterans
who have recently received them.
Not all of the par ers have been
ee.l. out, but with a few exceptions
they are in the hands OF the athletes.
Some trouble Is expected with few
II them wlo have already announced
hat they we're holding out, but they
ought to begin to appear regularly
rom now On.
Bush was one Of the men who had
been slated by some for the holdout
'eague but so far as is known he had
alven no one any definite information
that he intended to leave blank
where his name ought to be.
Lefty High the st. Louis boy, who
was secured by the Tigers last year,
was the best run-getter in the Con-
-,recticut State league, In which he
played for the Hartford club. He
made 80 runs in 121 games
We thought that when we found
Joe Lake playing golf and Henry
Rondeau chopping wood and Oscar
Witt milking cows all for dear train
!ng's sake, the Tigers had as many
odd training stunts as any of them.
However, here's doffing our hats to
Washington. The Senators have a
player who is putting in his winter
months preparing to play ball by
learning the English language.
The zepbyrous name of Jacinto
Calvo pronounced as softly as pos.
sible) is the appellation which watts
from the boys lips when you ask him
his pane. Calvo is a youth. not yet
out Of his teens, who was secured
from a Cuban club by Manager Grif.
fth. He cannot as yet speak the
English language and he realizes that
a lack of knowledge OF our classics
will be a serious handicap TO him In
case he ever wants to tell the umpire
what he thinks Of him.
Therefore. II is said, he Is picking
m parts Of unexpurgated Chaucer.
In a short time they will establish
chairs OF baseball in our colleges.
Ted Sullivan, who used to act base
ball. hut who Is now a lecturer and
playwright Of the great American
tragedy, is giving his lectures in vari
Gus colleges. Brown, Yale and Holy
Cross are on his present eastern
itinerary.
Oscar stanage is asking for s1,50t
more than his contract calls for &C
cording to report from the coast
That sets another record for the hold
out league.