Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-09-16
TWIRLERS ARE ADEPT
At USING THE brush
Alexander and TeSreau Lead
National Pitchers in Blank
ing Opponents
SIX DIFFERENT
VICTIMS FOR EACH

@rcver Cleveland Alexander. OF the
Phinies. and Charles Munroe Tesreau.
Of III Giants. are the only organized
major league hurlers Of 1915 who
have a possible chance Of finishing
the season with the proud record Of
having kalsomined each of their seven
adversaries. The Quaker star, most
exert Whitewater on either Of the
circuits. still has to hand out ciphers
10 the Pirates before he can have q
record of this kind. while the Gotham
gunners task is TO thrust the Phillies
back runless
Each artillerist has come pretty
close 10 turning in a Chicago win
over that seventh team Tesreau has
kent the Phils from the plate for nine
innings this season. doing so on July
z: but unfortunately az the same time
Albert Wentworth Demaree was also
DENYING the Giants runs. In the
tenth the tally famine came 70 an
end. Philadelphia winning. 1 TO O.,
through a safe poke by Clifford Carl
ton Cravath Alexander's near shut
out Of the Pirtes took place on August
3 Hooked IN with Babe Adams. the
Nebraska plainsman dished out
ciphers IN until the ninth and then
a wild throw by Bill Killefer let in
the games only run.
Alexander and Tesreau are the lone
slabmen who have registered shutout
wins over six clubs, Albert Leon Ma
maux. of the Pirates. the hurler
credited with kalsomining of five
teams. A whole raft Of moundmen
have whitewashed four Of their OBJ
ponents, these individuals being Pfei-
fer and Dell. of Brooklyn; Dale and
Toney. of Cincinnati and Perritt. of
New York. In the National, and Wood.
of Boston: Scott Of Chicago; Morton,
of Cleveland. Duhuc. of Detroit,
Fisher. of New York. and Johnson, of
Washington. in the American.
Namaux Needs Two Victims.
NamauX has hurled runless ball
against all hands except the Reds and
Cardinals. while the teams the Other
men still have TO blank are named be
low:
pfener- Boston. Philadelphia AM
St Louis.
Boston. New York and 81
Louis
Brooklyn. Philadelphia an
Pittsburgh
Toney Chicago. New York and S
Louis.
Perritt Brooklyn, Cincinnati AM
Pittsburgh
Wood Detroit New York and 81
Louis
Scott Detroit st. Louis and Wash
ineton.
Boston. Detroit and Wash
ineton.
Louis
Chicago. Detroit and Wash
ineton.
Chicago. Cleveland an'
St Louis
The whitewash banner has beef
hoisted much more frequently in thl
National than In the American thii
year In the parent organization. M
70 Wednesday. los games had beer
PLAYED IN which one side drew blank
and two contests had been reeled OF
IN which cipher5 were the portion o
both contestants. No runless draw
had been played In the major leagu
and the combats In which the victim
N'' NA tN'M ~ NAN nWNNWfAfU go
The banner shutout game Of IN
year thus far was staged by IN
Braves and Superbas on July z. hos
Utilities ceasing AZ the end of the sis
teenth snasm with neither contestar
able 70 score against the airtigl
pitching OF William Lawrence Jane
and George A. Davis Jr. collabora
ing. and Philin Brooks Douglas eoiu
Il alone. Just before this battle MAJ
aEer Wilbert Robinson Of the Flatbus
Fusiliere was seriously thinking
turning Douglas back to the bui
from whence he -Cincinna
That game marked change
Douglas habits. in Robhie's plans AZ
ir Brocklyn's pennant prospects.
u Runless Innings.
The Americans finest whitewash g
hibit Is jointly claimed By the r
Soy and the Indians On Nav
these combinations played IL runle
innings and then IN the fourteen
Guy Morton wavered and the Be
tonians collected three runs For {