The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-17
NO-HIT PITCHING DEBUTS
those Who Broke Into Big" Base
ball With Hitlcss Games.

New York Times.
II IS seldom that young pitchers
oreaking INTO the major leagues have
the distinction Of pitching a no-hit
game but there are several hurlers
VINO have pitched no-hit games on
their first appearance in Zig leag1a
Maclean Kennedy has
Kept a record Of pitchers Who broke
INTO the Dig show with no-hiu games.
Davis of the Boston Braves hurled
himself into fame by hurting a ro-hit
game on the very threshold Of his big
league career, a truly wonderful per
Torrance.
Davis is not alone in pulling off
TINS stunt, several pitchers gained The
glory at the first leap by preventing
the opposition to garner a base hit
durlng the first nIne innings they ever
pitched in a big league.
B~reitenStein. the famous
southpaw of big league fame. in his
first full game in major leagues pitch-
ed a hitless game against the Louis
vile Club Of the old association DAYS.
Just tWenty-seyen men faced Theo-
dore Breltenstein on that cold Octo-
Der day at the waning of the 1891
season. In the first inning Taylor.
the first batSman of the Colonies. re-
celVed a pass, but was doubled on
the next play: then twenty-five men
>tA'" /" I1uSIltN
ennlng was playing or the Louis
vile lineup that season, his first year
out of the bushes. Hughey had three
tries at Breits let-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 stunt.
"BumpuS" Jones, a right-handed
hurler, who was famous in minor lea
sue ranks a dozen years OF more ago,
created a ~Sat in baSeball circles
by hurting a hitless game on his first
appearance in the big league. Bump
us bumped right into fame by holding
the hard hitting Pittsburgh team hit
less in a nine-inning contest, although
they managed to score one tally
Jones had hardly eaten a meal in tn,
big show when he was sent to the fir,
ing line. This game was the las
game of the season of 1892. an(
Bumpus had been hurried in from
the Southern League by the Cincin
natl management to find out whethe1
he was as good as the reports from
the South had depicted him. In thi
game Jones won all the fame he eve
accumulated in the big show, for j
was about the only full game he eve
pitched, as he was turned loose tn
following spring. But holding a team
with such men IN the lineup as Va,
ddltfen, donovan, Elmer smith,, Jak
Beckley and our Connie Mack wa
certainly some feat, but Bumpus di
: it clean and clever.
In the year 1890 the ST. LOU
: Browns secured a hander fror
. the Illinois and Iowa League by til
name Of George Nicol. In his frs
l league game the Athletics failed t
get a base hit off his pulling deliver
= in an eight-inning game d on ao
count Of darkness. In his very mex
game, which was against the sam
!. team, he held them to one single in
= s~ix-inning affair: the hit was forth
y coming in the fifth round. SO Mic
y went thirteen innings in the big lea
que without allowing the sign of
. base hit, some showing for a bushe
y in his first efforts against major lea
que batsmen. Nicol didn't make goo
d. after that swell start.
Leon Ames, the former New Yor
: star, and now with Cincinnati, in h
first game in the National Leagu
which was pitched against ST. Lou
in the fall of 1908, was a no-hit a.
fair, and a very clever exhibition
; far as 1t went, but it didn't went
very far, for darkness put an end
: the game in the fifth round. and tt
{ gathering gloom may have prevente
Red" from accommodating considel
e able glory, for he had the Carolina
e on the run, and their efforts to II
cate his unusual twisters were lud
Z crous, seven whiting in the five il
nings-
tt Dr. RE>nIYCE CpIASI