The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-19
DAVIS NO-HIT GAME
 SELDOM EQUALLED

The unusual feat accomplished by Davis, the pitcher of the Boston Braves, of pitching a no-F1it game on the occasion of his very first major league attempt, while being admitted ly a wonderful performance, has nev- ertheleSs been recorded in baseball circles before. It can be safely said, though, without detracting any from the merits of Davis accomplishment that one so fortunate as to be pro- pelled into big league baseball in this manner os blessed with considerable luck. However, Davis is not the first player to enter a major league in this way, for there are several other h. stances where pitchers have jumped into baseball fame by preventing the opposing team from ta1lying a It in the first nine innings they ever pitched in sbig league.
 Theodore Breitenstein, theN famous southpaw of big league fame. in his first full game in major leagues, pitched a hit1ess. game against the Louisville club of the old association days. Just 27 men faced Breitenstein on that cold October day at the wan ing of the 1897 season. In the first inning Taylor. the first baseman of the Colonels, received a pass. but was doubled on the next play, then 25 men were retired in rotation.
 count of darkness. In his very next game, which was against the same
 
 six-inning affair The hit was forth coming in the fifth round, so Nfco1 went 3 innings in the big league without allowing the sign of a base hit, some showing for busher in his first efforts against major league 1 batsmen. Nico1 didn't make good even after that good start
 Leon Ames, the former New York star andEnows with Cincinnati, in his first game 2ins the National League, ! ,s,-l. ZI- in the fall of 1913, was a no-hit af- fair, and a very clever exhibition far it went, it didn't go very far, for darkIfess put an end to the game in the fifth round, and the gathering gloom may have prevented Red from accumulating considerable glory, for he had the Cardinals on the run, and their efforts-to locate his un- usual twisters was 1udicrous, seven whiting in the five innngs.
 Hughey Jennings was playing on the Louisville lineup that season, his first year out of the bushes. yHughey had three tries at Breit's 1eKt-handed curves and failed to straighten one of them out. Breitenstein, like Davis, had worked as a relief man on a few occasions previous to this noted feat.
 Bumpus" Jones. right-handed hurler, who was famous in minor league ranks a dozen years or more ago, created sensation in baseball
 
 his first appearance in the big league. Bumpus bumped right into fame by holding the hard-hitting Pittsburgh team hitless in a, nine-innfng 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 de- picted 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. But holding a. team with such men on the lineup as Van Ha1tren, Donovan, Elmer Smith, Jake BeckIey and our Connie Mack was certainly some feat. In the year 1890 the St. Louis Browns secured a Ieft-hander from the Illinois and Iowa League by the name of George Nico1. In hs first league game the Athletics failed to get a base hit off his puzziing delivery in an eight-inning game ended on ac-
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