Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-07-24
anniversary OF first
BASEBALL SHUT-OUT
Mutuals Put One Across in
Chicago Back in
1870
GAME GIVES MANY
NEW PHASES SINCE

From the very beginning e base
ball the fans and sporting scribes have
made use OF words and phrases who'll
ly meaningless to the uninitiated.
Baseball slang has changed greatly
since the early days. however, and
only the old-timers are capable OF
translating some Of the verbal stun
which was in use in the '70s For in
stance, how many of the younger crop
OF fans would recognize Chicago as
a synonym for "shut out?' Yet there
was time when ito Chicago an OPP
posing club was plain English for
shutting It out
This synonym originated in game
played forty-hve years ago yesterday,
July %, 1870. between Chicago and
the New York Mutuals. a contest
which is historic because It was the
first shut out in the history of pro-
tesaional baseball. The Mutuals shut
out Chicago by a score of to 0, the
game being played on the grounds Of
the Chicago club, the original White
Stockings. VOTERS was the twirler
for the Mutuals, while Pinkham was
on the mound for Chicago. Five years
later. the association Of Chicago" and
Shut out" gained a new meaning,
when IN game at St Louis the
White Stockings shut out the Mound
City aggregation by a score of to
4 o. This was the first professional
game with a to 0 score
The old Chicago White Stockings
Club was organized in 1870. The prin-
] cipal purpose in launching the team
was to defeat the Cincinnati the first
/ professional baseball club Cincinnati
/ players we're first paid for their ser
/ vices in 1869, and that year they tour
ed America. from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. winning fifty-six games, with
one tie. and no defeat Chicago be-
came Jealous, and the sports of the
Windy City subscribed q big sum "a
get together a team that could stop
the Reds Chicago had previously
had crack amateur teams in the Excel
siors and the Atlantics. the former
club had achieved glory by defeatins
the famous Rockford Club.
The White Stockings of 1870 we~
paid regular salaries. although the star,
including Wood. AIeyerle, Cuthbort an
Tracey, received sums which would l.
scoffed at by class d substitute j
these DAYS. The Chicago men wCr
called White Stockings in centradisLint
tion TO the Red Stockings Of Cincinnati
and they wore white hosiery, cap an
shirt and long blue trousers The Vii;
Stockings twice defeated the Red Stocl
mes in 1870. by scores Of 10 to 6 and !
to 3. and the shut out by New Yorl; wa
one of the few defeats they suffered tina
year
When the National League was form
ed in 1876 the White Stockings becan
charter members, along with Boston IL
New York Mutuals, the Phila leihi
Athletics, the Cincinnati Red Stocking
Louisville, St. Louis and Hartford. N
White Stockings won the first Natioll
League pennant, and, with Boston, COZ
stiiute the only clubs which have hei
Netional League membership from II
beginning 10 the present day
The Chicago National League ell
continued 10 be known as White Stool
ings until 1893. when Cap Arson We
discharged a. manager During The Nei
of the Brotherhood war, however. rsarl
all the veterans left the team, M
Arson had TO build a now club wit
Youngsters. who were called "cubs" az
"colts" The former name stuck to n
club. and finally took the place Of " nj
Stockings When the American Leag'
, put a club in the Windy City the o
name was revived, although Stocking
was shortened t. "SoX'