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BATTING FEATS
SELDOM EQUALED
GuiSAaW'S Recon- Record Of
Six Hills Recalls Like Events.
DELEnANTY ONCE MADE NINE
Not In Single Game, but In a Double
Heador-He Belted the Pill In as
Many Times at Bat-Willian1o and
Beaumont NJ ado Six Each.


Many Times at Bat-Willian1o and
Beaumont Made Six Each.
When George Cutshaw, the Brooklyn
Nationals second baseman, touched up
the slants of Pitchers Pierce and
Standridge of the Chicago Cubs recent
ly for half dozen bingles in as many
times at bat he entered the hall of
baseball fame.
He is the first man to accomplish the
feat since Jimmy Williams peeled off
the same number thirteen years ago.
Williams, who broke into fast COM
pany with the Pirates and who is now
second sacking for the Minneapolis
American Association team, was the
last major Lacquer to assemble six
safe swats in one combat until Cut
shaw performed the feat the other day.
So many years have elapsed since
Williams slapped out six hits that fans
thought the able pastimer capable of
getting n seXtct of raps in one game
was, like the dodo, extinct. Managers
had the same idea too. Miracle Man
Stallings Of the Braves doubted if the
trick ever would be turned again.
Stallings in saying that it would be
hard for a man to make six hits in q
game pointed out the fact that there
are mighty few contests in which
man goes to bat six times and also al
luded to the chances of Il player get
ting passed or winged or even pulled
out by his manager after his team had
obtained a commanding lead
In the game in Chicago recently the
Cub pitchers had perfect command,
seeming able to hit the Superbas' bats
with every curve they threw.
OF Cutshaw's six hits three were
made off the southpaw and three off
the right handler. Not one was for
more than one sack, and all except the
last Travelled to the Outfleld. Cutshaw
started on his batting jamboree in the
second inning, when he slapped n sin
gle TO center. In the fourth spasm he
deposited one spot in right, and in
the fifth bingle No. 3 went to left.
Cutshaw's fourth wallOp cropped
up In the sixth and was aimed to
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 bounder to
Shortstop Fisher, who once played
alongside of him. Cutshaw batted
in only one run with his six hits, Dau-
bert crossing the plate when the wal
loper from Wilmington rid his system
of safety No. 4.
The reason Ginger Beaumont
feat of making six hits is spread sc
distinctly on the tablets of baseball
manufactured them, which was July
%, 1899, in a game against the Phil
lies, he also scored six runs.
Jimmy Williams, last major Lacquer
prior to Cutshaw, to make six hits il
Il contest, turned the trick Aug. %
1902, when he was n member of the
Baltimore Americans. The Orioles
were playing the Chicago White Soy
that day, and they trimmed them 2
to 6, Clark Griffith and a deaf mute
named Leitner being the boxmen fol
the westerners. Jimmy's wallops EN-
braced four singles, one double and one
triple.
That same season, July s, Danny
Murphy, making his debut with Connit
Macks White Elephants, startled tn,
baseball world by pestling Georg,
Prcntiss Since dead, Cy Young 1. anC
Merle Adkins of the Boston Red Sol
for half a dozen safeties, one of which
was a home run. The Athletics in thi
Nyrvx
seven hits, Murphy going to bat sil
times. He did not reach the ball yarC
until the second chapter, else he nigh
have batted seven times. Jud Castro
graduate of Manhattan college. wa
pulled out of the Athletic lineup whel
Murphy reported to the tall tactician
In 1901 two American leaguers-Mik
Donlin of the Baltimore Orioles ant
Kid Nance Of the Detroit Tigers
each made six hits in games.
A whole raft of major leaguers hav
CLEANED six hits in contests, but mos
of these tricks were turned when tn
clubs had small rosters and when tn
fielding was not nearly so accurate a
it now is. Larry Twitchell, a young
ster who was signed by the Detroit
as a pitcher and then proceeded t
demonstrate that he could bat bette
than he could hurl, turned in one @
the best six hit stunts when he wa
working for Cleveland in 1899. The
he slammed out one single, one doubl,
three triples and one home run. totG
OF sixteen bases, in game with Bos
ton, going to bat seven times.
In the old American Association Gu
Hecker of Louisville once got thre
singles and three homers in a gam
with Baltimore.
Chick Stahl when he was in the vi
ginia league with Roanoke once drov
out three singles, two triples and tw
homers in one contest
If Cutshaw wishes to equal anothe
major league record he might max
nine hits in nine times at bat in n doI