The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-26
PLANK AND MATHEWSON
WHlTEWASH SPlLLERS
Veteran Left-Hander Replaces Ed.
Walsh as Kaisomine Ring OF
Junior League.

Should Chrlsty Mathewson, of the
Giants, and Eddie Plank, of the Attn
letics, face each other In another world
series contest next fall, tho fans Of
New York and Philadelphia being pref
~ positive that the tribes OF McGraw
and Mack again are going to win the
pennant In their respective organiza-
tons. the spectators fortunate enough
10 witness this encounter would be see
Ing battle between the greatest white
wash spillers in the National and
American Leagues. Mathewson has for
several years been tho kalsomine king
OF the senior league, but 1t was not
until May 2s OF this year that Plank's
friends had a right to announce that
the veteran left-hander had to his
credit more shut-outs than any other
finger In the junior organization.
When the season started. Ed Walsh,
of the White Sox. possessed the hon
or now owned by Plank, of most fire.
quently keeping his adversaries away
from the scoring station. The west
erner had used the brush ffty-six
times. the casterner fifty-nve. Jimmy
Callahan did not give Walsh a chance
TO start game until July 8, and by
that time Plank had twirled three
shut-outs and since then another.
through with Chicago" victory over
the Yankees, but he will have to pitch
another brace OF shut outs before he
can catch up with Gettysburgs best-
known graduate In the important mat
ter of spilling whitowash. Plank has
denied his opponents runs in fifty mine
controversies; Walsh in fifty-seven.
Walter Johnson, on July of this
year. got into the Plank Walsh class,
and by the half-century post in white
washing. At the end of the campaign
OF 1913, the Chalmers car winner had
to his credit forty-five kalsominings.
By May 90 the Idaho Phenom had fed
his opponents on hen fruit four more
times. but he had to walt quite a while
until he could produce that fftieth
whitewashing, doing so July against
Boston.
Plank, Walsh and Johnson are not
in much danger of having any more
associates in their tight little White
wash Society for many years to come
Only three other American League
pitchers-"Chief' Bender and Jack
Coombs. OF Philadelphia, and Joe
Wood. of Boston, have succeeded IN
keeping their opponents away from
the plate in twenty-five or more games.
Bender has shut out his rivals thirty
three times. Coombs twenty eight
times and Wood twenty-five times.
These statistics show the number Of
times Plank. Walsh. Johnson. Bender,
Sooihpe anu w oou nave Dlanked each
of their rivals:
Plank. 50 shut-outa against st.
Louis. 10; Detroit. IL; Boston, s: Chi
cage. 8; Washington, Z: New York. G.;
Cleveland, 5; Milwaukee. 1.
Walsh, 81 shut-outs against Boston,
Is; Washington, o; Philadelphia, s; De-
troit Z; st. Louis. z; Cleveland, 6; New
York, ..
Johnson. Sc shut-outs, against New
York. 12: Boston. o: Philadelphia, a;
Cleveland. z; ST. Louis. q; Detroit G.;
Chicago. 6.
Bender. SO shut-outs, against St.
Louis. 8; New York. 8; Chicago, O.;
Cleveland. A. Detroit. 8; Washington,
3; Boston, !.
Coombs. rs shut-outs against Wash
inston. 9; st. Louis, s; Cleveland, !:
New York, 4; Boston. 3; Chicago. 8;
Detroit. 2.
Wood. c5 shut-outs. against New
york. S;~St. Louis. 3; Chicago. A. Wash
ington, 8; Cleveland, 2: Philadelphia,
.; Detroit, l.