Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-18
JOHNSON LEADS IN SMALL
SCORE BALL EXHIBITIONS
Washington's Speed Marvel Tops
Other Pitchers in 1-to-O
Contests.
MATHEwsoN is CLOSE SECOND
big SIX Has Twirled Same Num-
her, but Has Pitched Twice as
Many Timcs-Plank and White
Lead Left-Handers.

The l-to-0 contest in baseball can
not be displaced in its hold on the
average fan as the acme Of quality in
the game. II is the closest margin
whereby a ball game can be decided
Ana as general rule the vic,ors and
Fanquished are satisfied with the out
come-and especially the victors. The
l-to-o struggle is a game in which tho
offensive efforts OF the winning side
are shaded down 10 the next thing
10 hothine' and the offensive spasms
o. the losers are the mex. thing ma g,
nothing.
The teams OF this decade arc n,,r
iNe more OF these ncrvc-racIiing con
teSts IMAM the teams OF years ago.
records show that fewc, ''tirhtwoil"
@ames were played by the teams of
o'hes days; for instance such pitchers
ms Radbournc. kccfe. Garrison. Gal
win. Morris. Rusic, Kil-oy and tho
noted Ramsey have never worked In
moro IMAM dozen of these games.
W Young, in his twenty-five sea-
sons III the pitching game. only ac-
cninuiatcd twenty-five OF these model
games Cy' was cminently success
fui III getting the best OF his clever
opponents in these classic arguments.
Tor he lost My six of them. Young
made record in the season of 1902 hI,
pitching three of these games in suc.
cession and winning all three ', i,h the
score ending TO o.
Walter Johnson is the chamniop
pitcher ca small-score -ames in .thn
baseball world. with Christy Mathew
son close second. Walter has pitched
twcnty-eight OF these games wherein
the score stood ! to O. Matty has tho
same number to his credit. but PIC
Six" has pitched in twice as mani
games rs Johnson. Matty has bcen
very successful in getting on the bie
cnd OF these extremely small-scorc
games. The opposing hurlcr, and his
fellows 10 a man. work their heads OFF
m order to win tight battle from
the famous Walter With not alu,ys
winning team behind him, Johnson
managed 10 win half of the twenty
eight games he pitched in which tLo
score was | TO q.
Edward Plank and DIR. White lead
the lcft-handed brigade in pitching !
10 contests. Each has TWENTY-FIVE
oil thesc tisht-score games in his rec
ords and each has won fourteen of shat
number. DR.. White pitched six OF his
TO 0 battles against St Louis and
returned his team winner in all six
contests. Ed Walsh. Mordccai Brown.
Jack Powell, RUDE Waddell AMI !:ili
donovan nave participated in Ven: Y
games in which the decision was
reached by to score wild Bilr'
Donovan has been very successful in
winning small-score contests Dill
pitched six of them against the Ath
letics, with prospective pennant
hanging on each one and came out n
victor in four. NJ. Brown broke even
in his TO games. winning and losing
tcn pittsburgh was the team 10 give
tho famous three fingered Brown the
hardest arguments. taking four out OF
seven. Edward Walsh was very sue
ccsafu; in winning out in "a -cd-hct
contest when under high pressure. He
was returned victor thirteen Zines
out OF the twenty games in which the
winters needed to have one lone tally
in order to win.
comparatively few pitchers in tho
major league have participated in n
dozen of these to contests. and it
will he noticed that it falls TO the lot
Of only the high and mighty to get in
fifteen or over of them. The follow
ing list tells how the big guns Of the
pitching class Jared in these close