Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-01
ATTORNEYS-AT-LA
PITCHERS WITH RECORDS.
A Few Who Pitched No-Hit Games
First Time Out.

y The unusual feat accomplished by
Davis. the pitcher Of the Boston Braves,
OF pitching no-hit game on the &C.
casion of his very first major league
attempt, while being admittedly a Won
derful performance, has nevertheless
been recorded in baseball circles be-
fore. 1t can be safely said, though,
without detracting any from the merits
of Davis accomplishments that one so
fortunate as to be propelled into big
league baseball in this manner is
blessed with considerable luck. How
ever. Davis is not the first player to
enter a major league in this way, for
there are several other instances
where pitchers have jumped into base
ball fame by preventing the opposing
nine innings they ever pitched in big
league.
Theodore Breitenstein, the famous
southpaw of big league fame, in his
first full game in major leagues, pitched
hitless game against the Louisville
Club of the old association days. Just
tWenty-Seven men faced Breitenstein
on that cold October day at the waning
of the 1891 season. In the first inning
Taylor, the first baseman of the
Colonies. received a pass, but was
doubled on the next play. then twenty
five 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 1eft-handed
curves and failed to straighten one of
them out. Breitenstein, like Davis. had
worked as a relief man on few occa-
sions previous to this noted feat.
Bumpus" Jones, right-handed
hurler, who was famous in minor
league ranks dozen years or more
ago, created a sensation in baseball
circles by hurting hitless game on
his first appearance in the big league.
Bumpus bumped right into fame by
holding the hard-hitting Pittsburgh
team hitless 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 reports
from the south had depicted him. In
this game Jones won all the fame he
ever accumulated in the big show, for
it was about the only full game he ever
pitched. as he was turned loose the
following Spring. BY holding a team
with such men on the lineup as Van
Haltren, Donovan, Elmer Smith, Jake
Backley, and our Connie Mack was
certainly some feat.
In the year 1900 the st. Louis
Browns secured 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 dark
ness, In his very next game, which
was against the same team, he held
them to one single in a 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 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
1t went. it didn't go very far, for dark
ness put an end to the game in the
fifth round, and the gathering gloom
may have prevented Red" from ac-
cumulating considerable glory. for he
had the Cardinals on the run, and their
efforts to locate his unusual twisters
was ludicrous, seven whiting in the
five innings.