Evening journal., 1915-08-16
FIVE HITTERS UP TO
CUTSHAV' RECORD
Five Former Orioles Have
Walloped Six Hits In
a Game
MANY SEASONS
SINCE LAST TIME

James Thomas Williams, who
broke into fast company with the
Pirates and who now is second sack
ing Tor Cantillons Millers, was the
last major Lacquer until last Monday
to assemble six safe swats in one
combat George W. Cutshaw, OF the
Superbas. then found George Filbert
Pierce and Alfred (Pete) Standridge,
of the Cubs. for half a dozen wallops
press dispatches giving him credit
for tying a worlds record held by
Clarence (Ginger) Beaumont, OF
Pittsburgh.
Baltimore has won more honors in
this class than any city in the eoun-
try. FIVE of her representative ball
players performing the trick. Steve
Brodie was the first one to get in the
Hall of Fame. On July Q, 1891, he
got three singles, two doubles and a
triple in a game with Pittsburgh.
on September 8, 1897, Willie
Keeler and Jack Doyle climbed aboard
the band wagon. The former made
five singles and a triple. the latter
flour singles and two doubles in a
who used TO be terror in the
American League while playing at
the now dismantled park at York
road and Twenty-ninth street raped
out two singles, two doubles and two
triples against Milwaukee. This was
on June "a. 1901 One of the pitch
ers, Dummy Leitner. who helped Will
liams to make his record. was a
Baltimore boy.
Many Seasons Since Last Time.
So many years have elapsed since
Williams slapped out six hits hat
fans thought the able pastimer capa-
bic Of getting a sextet of raps in one
game was. like the dodo, extinct. Man
ayers had the same idea, too, Mir
acle Man Stallings of the Braves,
telling that he doubted if the trick
ever would be turned again. STALL
ings, in saying that it would be hard
for a man TO make six hits in a game.
| pointed out the fact that there are
mighty few contests in which a man
goes TO bat six times and also al
luded TO the chances OF a player
getting passed or winged or even
pulled out by his manager after his
team had secured a commanding lead.
} In the game in Chicago last Mon
day, when Cutshaw leaped into the
ranks Of batting immortals, the Cub
pitchers had perfect command. seem
ing able TO MI the Superbas' hats
with every curve they threw. More
over, Wilbert Robinson, who is not
overburdened with surplus talent.
stuck to his original alignment and
the conditions that Miracle Man Stall
ings thought might arise never crop
ped out.
Only One Extra-Base Hit
OF Cutshaw's six hits not one was
for more than a sack. and all except
the last travelled to the outfeld Cut
shaw, who is a Wilmington 0llO
product started on his batting lam
boree in the second inning. when
ne slapped a single to centre. In
the fourth spasm he deposited a one
spot in right, and in the fifth Bingle
No. 8 went TO left. Cutshaws fourth
wallop cropped up in the sixth and
was aimed 10 the starboard field. In
the eighth the Superba aimed his fifth
smash TO the port garden, and In the
ninth he got his sixth drive-a slow
grounder 10 Shortstop Robert Tecum-
sch Fisher. who once PLAYED along
side Of him. Cutshaw batted in only
one run with his six hits, Dauhert
crossing the plate when the walloper
from Wilmington rid his system OF
J safety No. T.
The reason Ginger Beaumont's feat
OF making six hits is spread so dis
tinctly on the tablets OF baseball
dope is because at the same time he
manufactured them, which was on
July p. 1893. in game against the
, Phillies, he also scored six runs.
Jimmy Williams, last major lea
, guer, prior to Cutshaw, to make six
hits in contest turned the tricl
, on August 25. 1902, when he was a
) member of the baltimore Americans
) The Orioles were playing the Chicago
! White Sox that day ard they trimmed
B them, p TO 6. Clarke Griffith anc
a deaf-mute named Leitner being III,
Z boxmen for the Westerners. Jimmy.
wallops embraced four singles, on,
n double. and one triple.
4 Murphy Startles the Fans.
That same season, on July 8. Dan
! ny Murphy making his debut Will
Connie Mack's White Elephants
startled the world by pestling Geors,
Prentiss (since dead, Cy Young
= and Merle Theron Adkins. of tn,
Boston Red Sox, for half a dozel
i, safeties, one OF which was a hom,
!, run. The Athletics in this game 20
\ p runs and q hits. Murphy goinl
4 to bat six times. He did not reacl
!. the ball yard until the second chan
ter else he might have batted sever
times. Jud Castro. graduate Of Man
n hatton College, was pulled out of tb
I Athletic line up when Murphy re
3 ported 10 the Tall Tactician. In $50
two American Leaguers-Mike Don
lin OF the Baltimore Orioles and hi
3. Nance, Of the Detroit Tigers-eacr
0 made six hits in games. Mikes stun
0 was the best as his collection d
0 clouts there were two singles. ty
? doubles and two triples.
0 A whole raft OF major leaguer
0 have CLEANED six hits in contests bu
0 most Of these tricks ere turned whe
Q the clubs had small rosters and whe
0 the fielding was not nearly so a,
- curate as IL now is. Larry TwitcbeI
youngster, who was signed bv N
Deiroits as a pitcher and then mr.,
T. ceeded to demonstrate he could b,