Evening star., 1916-09-24
SHUT OUT II TIMES.
Nationals Head American
League in Being BIanked.
CHICAGO LOSES BUT EIGHT
Pirates Fare Worst in National
League, Being Blanked on
22 Occasions.
BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

No one as yet has suggested fall
series between the Pirates and the Ma
tionals. but if these two clubs were to
clash 1t would be a meeting between
teams that lead their respective leagues
in being dipped into the whitewash
bucket. Also it would be a meeting
| between teams whose leaders are old
friends and associates. Jimmy Gala
han and Clarke Griffith having been to-
gether for long space of time in Chi
cago.
Calls team has been blanked twenty
two times and Griff's seventeen. The
Cincinnati Reds have run into nineteen
kalsominings, and the Arising Athlet-
les and the ST. Louis Browns each
into fourteen, so with the campaigns
in their closing stages it is not likely
that the present distinction enjoyed by
the Pittsburgh and Washington clubs
will be gained by any other combina-
tions.
| Only one of the sixteen major league
clubs has been blanked less than ten
| times this year. That club is Chicago,
| in the American League, the White Sox
| having been kept away from the plate
i in eight contests In six of these games
left-handers did the pitching. the lone
| northpaws to get run1ess decisions over
the Rowlandites being Fred Beebe of
| the Indians and Joe Bush of the White
| Elephants. The f1rst-named hurled his
| shut-out the day he was making his
| debut in the American League-June 26.
! In the National League the teams
| hardest to blank have been Brooklyn
and New York, the combinations led
| by those ex-Orioles, Robinson and Nc
| Graw. each having been presented with
eleven strings of ciphers. Thus far
/ a,y~
| whitewashes in the National than in
| the American. the number of times each
| club has been kalSomined being given
below:
Times Teams Have Been Blanked.
22-Pirates.
| 19-Reds.
17-Nationals, Cubs and Cardinals.
14-White Elephants and Browns.
| 13-Braves and Phillies.
| 12-Yankees.
11-Red sox. Indians. Tigers. su-
perbas and Giants.
S-White Sox.
| In four of this years Chicago"
games neither team was able to get
] run. the Boston clubs figuring in all
/ League the Red Sox and the Browns
went seventeen stanzas on July II
without getting tally and September
didn't suIIy the plate in a six-inning
| fracas. The National Leagues rum
less draws lasted sixteen and Ave
rounds. respectively. and were between
the Braves and the Reds June 13, and
between the Braves and the Phillies
September. 5.
The record major league shutout
score of % to has not been seriously
campaigns. Only three times. have
clubs run up double figures while de-
nying their rivals tallies, all three of
younger league. The White Sox DOWN
ed the White Elephants May 20. II to
0. and that also was the score of the
ystorK Ss Gsns y GSyeIsnd as aooA Au
10 to fail out of the Senators.
There have been a raft of l to
games in the majors this year. thirty,
club except Detroit owns one or more
of this variety of victories.
shutout Every Club. i
Only one major league hurler will fin
| ish the year with "a record of having
| whitewashed all seven of his oppo-
nents. Said hurler is Grover Cleveland
Alexander Of the Phillies, who already
! owns such record. Three men-Joe
Bush of Philadelphia and Hubert Leon
ard of Boston. in the American, and
Dick Rudolph of Boston. in the Ma
| tional-now have blanked FIVE clubs.
| Washington and Boston escaped kali
| sominings at the hands of the White
1 Elephant, the Red Sox failed to deco
rate the White Sox or the Indians. and
| the Brave has been unable to blank
either OF the metropolitan aggrega-
| tions.
! Pitchers who have whitewashed four
! clubs this season number six-three in
each league. The Tenerites with rec
ords of this kind are Jeff Pfeffer and
| Tereau of the Giants; the Johnsonites.
Babe" Ruth Of the Red Sox, "Reb"
| Russell of the White Sox and Bob
Shawkey Of the Yankees.
! The greatest number OF shutouts
pitched against one club by one man is
! four. Alexander of the Phillies. has
kept the Reds away from the plate
four times this year-May 13. July 20,
August 8 and August 1S.
Joe Benz of the White Sox has fed
the White Elephants on hen fruit three
times this year. the dates OF these per,
formances being May 20. July IS and
August %.
! The Tigers have been blanked by
Babe Ruth OF the Red Sox thrice dur
| ing the present campaign, the Baiti-
morean's shutouts of the Junglemen
| naplnS Deeh accomplished may ~ OuAy
81 and August "a
This is a list of the pitchers who
| have registered pair of shutout wins
| over the same club during 1915:
AMERICAN LEAGpE.
| Ruth, Boston. against Washington.
Russell Chicago against Boston.
Bagby. Cleveland. against Washington.
Coveleskie, Detroit, against Chicago.
| Mogridge New York, against Chicago.
Bush. Philadelphia. against Cleveland and New
York.
Boehlinx, Washington, against st. Louis.
| NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Tyler. Boston. against Cincinnati and st. Louis.
Rudolph, Boston, against Chicago.
Dell. Brooklyn, against Philadelphia.
Pfener, Brooklyn. against Pittsburgh and st.
Allen. Boston. against Chicago.
Marquard. Brooklyn. against Pittsburgh.
Smith, Brooklyn. against Boston.
Cheney, Brooklyn, against Cincinnati.
Packard. Chicago. against Boston.
Lavender Chicago, against Philadelphia.
Vaughn, Chicago, against Pittsburgh
Perrttt. New York. against Chicago.
Alexander, Philadelphia, against Boston. Brook
| Ign. Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
| Harmon, Pittsburgh. against st. Louis.
Miller. Pittsburgh. against st. Louis.
Doak. st. Louis. against New York.