Evening star., 1915-05-30
MORTON DOES WELL
CIeveIand's Young Pitcher
Best Since Days of Addie Joss.
BUT GRIFFMEN BEAT HIN
Cotton States League Product I'm.
able to Subdue Nationals in
Four Attempts.
Special Dispatch TO The Sia-.

Special Dispatch to The Sia-
CLEVELAND. May 29-Add to the
list of places that have produced
heroes, Vernon, Autuaea county, Ala
bama. That is where Guy Morton.
Cleveland's Walter johnson and tho
best pitcher the indians have had since
the days of Addie Joss, was born. He
Will be twenty-five years old next
Tuesday and had less than two years
experience in the mi nor league ranks
before joining the ri sidents last sum
mer In those two wars Guy managed
10 hang up some ktrike-out records
that are decidedly CHARLEY Sweeneyish
both seasons Norton was in the minors
ne averaged more tEan ten strike
to the game.
Morton got his start with Columbus
Miss, In the Cottof States League in
1915 lie iabored kishty-one innings
tequlValent TO ninS full games) for
the Mlssisslppians md famed ninety
one men-an averafge to each contest
of 10.1. Clarence ditto Kraft the arh-
lete who almost cSused a strike last
season. and Bill LHhrsen, briefly tried
by the Pirates at she flag end of the
1913 campaign, we4a some OF Morton's
pitching cotempor4ries in the Cotton
states League-anS organization from
which the Giants iprocured Josh De-
wore and where tie Pirates first To-
Gated Howard carfnitz.
somers Rec Filed Morton.
Moving on to waterbury. Morton took
his strike-out WHIP with him. and Lee
Fohi. not IL. Eue4.ne McCann, once .
YANKEE scout. wfild have bossed the
Eastern Associatikns pennant winner
hao guy been alSwed to stay in tho
minors. Charley Somers, owning tho
aterpury club. Jailed for Waterbury
70 ueHver MortoS to Cleveland after
the southern sia aHman had won eight
out of nine gameS and had whifYed l93
., MS opponents n dozen controyer-
sies. Inat made3 the second year that
norton nad averaged more than ten
strlke-o outs to eaSh debate. Morton en-
tereu tne ranksfof the no-hit heroes
June 10, 1914, wien he kept New Ha-
ven pase hit aisd run columns empty.
our days afterfMorton pitched his no.
nit game again4t New Haven he was
making his matpr league debut This
occurred in Cleveland against the
ranks. Guy 9ook command in the
sixth, after Qlance's charges had
shaken four hi9s and six runs out Of
Abe bowman and Lefty James, and
twirled three Innings, during which
time the Yankeis' located him for two
safeties and on4 tally.
1t was not Until September 81 that
Morton turned in win for the Indians,
anu tueH lie psdt view 1Ork, TO ),
Matty McHale hnd Carroll Brown op-
posing him. Prior to that date he
dropped doZesl games in row.
Even when hi was keeping constant
company with Old Hollow-Eyed Defeat,
Morton looked like real pitcher, so
Cleveland did not ask for waivers on
him. The Indians. then Maps, must
have known they We've playing behind
a boxman of tht Walter Johnson stripe,
for they furnished him with about tho
same number bf runs per game that
the Nationals / supply to the Idaho
phenom. rmsngham started Morton
In dozen q'larrels, and he lasted
through five Of them. twenty-six couns
ters being made by the Clevelands in
the dozen games In which Guy was
picked as their pioneer pitcher.
Has Never Beaten Griffmen.
Morton has made four attempts -
subdue the Nationals. and never has
succeeded. He faced them for the frsS
time In WasN ngton July Is Of last
year. and lost kut. to 3. Yancey Ayers
and Joe Engef pitching against him.
August 4. though he famed eleven Of
the Griffmen. tie decision went against
him, Z to s, yJoe Boehling and Jim
Shaw pitching flor the winners. August
81 Morton waf one of three pitchers
used by Cleveland in a fourteen-inn-
ing 3 to tiet played in Washington
This year. Maj %, Morton faced Wall
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