Evening journal., 1915-09-08
DAVIS NO HIT
CAME NOT A RECORD
Others Have Pitched Shut
outs First Time Out
With Big Leaguers
LEON AMES AMONG
THOSE IN LIMELIGHT

The unusual feat accomplished by
Davis, the pitcher of the Boston
Braves. of pitching a no-hit game on
the occasion of his very first major
league attempt, while being admitted.
ly a wonderful performance. has new
ertheless been recorded in baseball
circles before. II can be safely said,
though, without detracting any from
the merits of Dayis's accomplishment
that one so fortunate as to be pro-
PEELED into big league baseball in this
manner is blessed with considerable
luck However. Davis is not the first
player to enter a major league in this
way, for there are several other in
stances where pitchers have jumped
into baseball fame by preventing the
opposing team from tallying a hit in
the first nine innings they ever pitch.
ed in a big league.
Theodore Breitenstein, the famous
southpaw of big league fame. in his
first full game in major leagues, pitch
ed a hitless game against the Louis
Vile Club of the old association days.
Just twenty-seven men faced Brett
estein on that cold October day at the
inning Taylor, the first baseman of the
Colonels, received a pass. but was
doubled on the next play, then twenty
fve men were retired in rotation
Hughey Jennings was playing on the
Louisville lineup that season. his first
year out of the bushes. Hughey had
three tries at Breit's left-handed curves
and failed to straighten one of them
out. Breitenstein, like Davis, had
worked as a relief man on a few occa,
sions previous to this noted feat.
"Bumpus" Jones, a right-handed
hurler, who was famous in minor
league ranks dozen years or more
ago, created a sensation in baseball
circles by hurling a hitless game on
his first appearance in the big league.
Bumpus bumped right into fame by
holding the hard-hitting Pittsburgh
team hitiess in a nine-inning contest.
although they managed to score one
tally.
Jones was new in the big show when
he. was sent to the firing line, this
game was the last game of the season
OF 1892, and Bumpus had been hurried
in from the Southern League by the
Cincinnati management to find out
whether he was as good as the re-.
ports from the south had depicted him.
In this game Jones won all the fame
he ever accumulated in the big show.
for il was about the only full game he
ever pitched, as he was turned loose
the following spring. But holding a
team with such men on the lineup as
Van Haltern, Donovan. Elmer Smith.
Jake Backley, and our Connie Mack
was certainly some feat.
In the year 1890 the St. Louis
Browns secured a left-hander from
the Illinois and Iowa League by the
name of George Nicol In his first
league game the Athletics failed to get
a base hit of his puzzling delivery in
an eight-inning game ended on account
of darkness. In his very next game.
which was against the same team, he
held them to one single in a six-inning
affair. The hit was forthcoming in the
fifth round, so Nicol went thirteen in
nings in the big league without allow
ing the sign of a base hit. some show
ing for a busher in his first efforts
against major league batsmen. Nicol
didn't make good even after that good
start.
Leon Ames, the former New York
star. and now with Cincinnati. in his
first game in the National League,
which was pitched against st. Louis
in the fall of 1913 was a no-hit affair.
and a very clever exhibition as far as
it went, it didn't go very far Tor dark