Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-19
WH|TEWASHES HARD.
Alexander and Tesreau Have
Shut Out Six Teams.
MAMAUx HAS FIVE, BLANKS
Teams Easiest to Shut Out This
Season Have Been Chicago
Cubs and Washington.
BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

BY ERNEST ]. LANIGAN.
Grover Cleveland Alexander OF the
philiies and Charles Munroe Tesreal OF
the Giants are the only major league
hu-lers of 1915 who have a possible
chance of finishing the season with the
proud record OF having kalsomined each
and every one of their seven adversa-
ries The Quaker star, most expert
Whitewater on either of the big cir
cults still has to hand out ciphers 10
the Pirates before he can have rec
ord of this kind, while the Gotham gun
ners task is to thrust the Phillies back
runless. Each artillerist has come
pretty close to turning in a Chicago
win over that seventh team. Tesreau
has kent the Phillies from the plate for
nine innings this season. doing so on
July :: but unfortunately at the same
time Albert Wentworth Demaree was
also denying the Giants runs. In the
tenth the tally famine came 10 an emu
Philadelphia winning. l to 9, through
safe poke by Clifford Carlton Cravath.
Alexanders near shut-eut of the Pirates
took place on August 3. Hooked up
with Babe Adams. the Nebraska
plainsman dished out ciphers up until
the ninth and then wild throw by
..Bilr' Killifer let in the games only
run.
Alexander and Tesreau are the lone
s,abmen who have registered shut -out
wins over six clubs, Albert Lean ma
nlaux of the Pirates the one nurler
credited with kalsomin1ng OF nVe teams.
A whole raft of moundmen have wh1te-
washed four of their opponents. these
individuals being Pfeffer and Deli OF
Brooklyn, Dale and Toney of Cincinnati
and Perritt of New York, in the Natlon-
al. and WOOD of Boston, Scott OF Chi.
cago, Morton of Cleveland. Dubuc of
Detroit, Fisher of New York and john
son of Washington, in the American.
Manaux has hurled runless ball against
ell hands except the Reds and Cardl-
nails. while the teams the other men still
haze to blank are named below:
l'fere1 Boston. philadelphia and st. Louis
Ds-So>ton. New York and ST. Louis.
'iS,cy-Gi.-.=u New York and ST: Louis.
rer-it:- f;-ookIyn. Cincinnati and pittsburgh.
s Sopelps,' s, Louis and washington
Mo-rna--T;oston, Dctroi; and WASHINGTON
ri.hcr-'Diessa. Detroi; and Washington.
Ichnson-Chicago, Cleveland and St. LOUIS.
More Blanks In National.
The whitewash banner has been
hoisted much more frequently in the
National than in the American this
year. In the parent organization, up
70 Wednesday. los games had been
played in which one side drew blanks
and two contests had beeen reeled off in
which ciphers were the portion of both
contestants. No runless draws had
been played in the junior league and
the combats in which the victims were
fed on hen fruit numbered eighty
three.
The banner shut-out game of the year
thus far was staged by the Braves and
Superbas July :, hoStiiIties ceasing at
tine end of the sixteenth spasm with
IL rvrfy q
the alright pitching of William
Lawrence James and George A. Davis.
jr.. collaborating. and Philip Brooks
Douglas, going it alone. just before
of the Flatbush Fusiliers was serious
iy thinking Of turning the southern
youth back to the burg whence he
Came-Cincinnati. That game marked
a change in Douglas habits, in Robbie's;
plans and in Brooklyn's pennant pros
poets.
The Americans finest whitewash ex-
hibit is jointly claimed by the Red Sox
and the Indians. May Is these COM
binations played thirteen runless in
nings, ard then in the fourteenth Guy
Morton wavered and the Bostonians
collected three runs. For the victors
Joe Wood and Carl Mays did the slab
work, the veteran going the greater
part of the route.
Highest shut-Out Score.
The highest shut-out score thus far
recorded is 16 to 0. The White Sox
copied in this fashion from the Browns
April Is. Urban c. Faber opposing
Harry Hoch. Key Perryman and George
Ba umgardner. None of the men who
tole6 on the mound for Branch Hickey
on this date now are drawing salaries
from Robert Lee Hedges, though
Baumg gardner still is the property of
the one magnate in the American
League who is willing to help Hughey
Jennings pennant- chances by selling
him box material.
Detroit June overwhelmed Boston.
- to .. and three games marked by
the tailying figures Of 10 to 0 are also
on the records-two in the National
Fave figured in all these controversies
The White Sox won over the Yankees
III this fashion June 8. and the Cubs
were beaten in this manner by the
august s. George Hilbert Pieicesstart-
ed in both these lop-sided skirmishes
for Bresnahan's charges
Five other :5ames have been played
IN which teams reached double figures
In markers while bathing their oppo-
nents in tee waitewash tub. They were
~ follows:
June Pirates. II: Superbas. o:
M... 1aux and Dell-Cadore
July Red Sox. IL: White Elephants
.: Wood-t'sc:S and Wyckof- Haas
kuowlSon.
May i5-Giaa:s. 10: CUBS. o: Marauard
and abeinierce-Adams
August -i-Eraves 10: Pirates o.
:;agan AID Cooper-HiIi
September Cardinals 10: Cubs. o:
Dock Ij HUmDhries
1nc scores OF the o:Ite: snut-out
games ii the major leagues have been
~ iofiows, l-io-6 events being mos,
t;.5nIoraa.e in the American Leasue.
ani .-;o-t sst-ios having the call in
tho Naticral:
= - - gan Amer, an l. M .;a.:I ::
,.a.t iip!t an i N1;jon,t
~ r:tlu American !: \afionoI Il
{. - tiu-rIcau a. ssrt.
,s e. ri. Va.
80 70 = -AH4ari, an National 4.
. H. " -In' s- American. Ia Natural