The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-09-01
DAYS UNUSUAL
EVENTS ON THE
BALL DIAMOND
RED LETTER DAY IN BASEBALL
HISTORY MADE UP FROM uN-
USUAL AND REMARKABLE
FEATs IN THE NATIONAL GAME.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, Aug. 3l.-A sequence OF
unusual events and performances
marked Tuesday. August II, as a red
letter day in baseball history. Will
liam Whitaker Of the Keokulx Central
Association team pitched twenty one
consecutive scoreless innings in dou-
ble-header between the Waterloo and
Keokuk teams But five hits were made
off Whitaker and his team won both
games by a l to score. The first
game went nine innings and the sec
ond twelve. In major league baseball,
Ruelbach OF the Chicago Cubs, on Sep
TENDER 26, 1908. pitched double
header consisting of two nine inning
games against Brooklyn, winning both
without giving the Superbas run.
During the same year Walter Johnson
of the Washington Club shut out the
New York Americans on September
4, and Z, pitched twenty-seven con-
secutive innings without allowing
run
While Whitaker was performing at
Keokuk, William Powers, of the New
London Club of the Eastern Associa-
ton, was pitching a double header or
eighteen innings in which he shut out
the New Haven team without a run
and allowed but eight hits. At the
same hour the Toronto and Jersey City
clubs of the International League, were
playing a twenty inning scoreless tie
game in which Pitcher Hearne of the
Toronto club. twirled the full distance,
allowing but six hits. Minor league
history shows that this twenty inning
scoreless game was duplicated by the
CIeburne and Fort Worth clubs of the
Texas League on July II, 1906. when,
as in the case of Jersey City and
Toronto, the game was called on ac-
count of darkness after the twentieth
inning.
The chronicles of the days unusual
baseball features do not end with
these feats. August II marked the
seventeenth anniversary of Napoleon
Lajoie's entry into big league baseball.
1t was also Christy Mathewson's thir-
ty-third birthday and he celebrated
by being a material factor in the
Giants victory over the Brooklyn club
in an eleven-inning game. The Ma
tional Baseball Commission took ad-
vantage of the occasion to get into
the nmelight with q ruling to the
effect that a baseball player who
owed another money in the form of
personal debt could be suspended from
organized baseball until such time as
he paid the debt.
Although a day late, Pitcher Hedge
path of the Richmond club of the Vir-
ginia league performed a spectacular
twirling feat on August ls, when he
ssfzciated in both games of double
header against Petersburg, allowing
one hit, three bases on balls and no
runs. Hedgepath, who is slated for
the Washington Americans. was OPP
posed in the hrst game by Pitcher
Ayers who until defeated by Hedge
path had a record of thirteen straight
victories. Ayers will also join the
washington club this fall
Golf Tournament.
With English golfers in all three
national championship tournaments
this autumn the play for amateur. open
and wornans titles takes an added in
terest. According TO the latest re-
ports Abe Mitchell viii compete in
both the amateur and open; Miss
Muriel Dodd, present woman cham
pion OF Great Britain, and Miss Ra-
venscroft. 1912 champion, IN the wom-
ans titular tourney, Harry Vardon,
Wilfred Reid and Edward Ray in the
open There is early evidence that
these title-seeking golfers. aided by the
French trio, will attract unusual ataen-
tions to the competitions at Garden
City. Brcokline and Wilmington.
Large entry lists are predicted for
both the amateur and open. The en-
tire week. September 1-6. will be de-
voted to the amateur tournament A
record entry is also expected for the
open competition and the pl&y will IN
all proba bility require four instead of
two days as originally planned. 1t is
believed that many of the United
States professionals will avail them
selves of the opportunity to enter with
the idea of watching the famous for
eign players in action. rather than the
hope of securing place in the final
rounds
Plan New Season.
With the finish of the 1913 pen
nant races in sight the magnates of the
big league clubs are already planning
for another years campaign. The eff
forts to strengthen various teams IN
both the National and American
leagues goes on apace accompanied
by the usual reports of trades, shake
ups and managerial changes. Dame
Rumor can always find ready listeners
in the baseball world and almost every
club except the flag winning combina
tions come in for a share of her at
tention Among those managers who
are reported to find the balancing of
the field directors crown nerve rack
ing feat are Evers of the Chicago
Nationals; Callahan of the Chicago
White Sox; Carrigan of the Boston
Red Sox; Dahlen of the Brooklyn Ma