Omaha daily bee., 1916-05-08
SCHOOL BOY BREAKS
PITCHING RECORDS
Texas Youngster Strikes Out TWEEN.
ty.Four in Single
Game.
stage is NEAREST COMPETITOR

4 NEW YORK, May 1.-The record Of
twenty-fopr strike outs in nine-inning
game, credited to Pitcher Davis Of tho
4 Killcen Texas High school team In the
I contest against the Bolton High school
nine. on April %, appears 10 rank with
any pitching feat now recorded in the
annals Of base ball. SO FAR as r. shown
by the leading compilations on base ball
tho feat stands IN a class by itself
Whether II Ia worlds record IL hard 10
determine because unusual pitching ex-
hibitions by amateur school and college
teams are not kept with the same care
that In devoted TO those OF the major and
minor leagues
SO far as the records show II IL the
best strike out performance for n nine
inning game 10 be found among the avail
able data IN existence today A careful
search disclosed that the National league
records Of strike outs under similar
conditions, II nineteen made by Charles
Sweeney In the Providence Boston game
Of June 7, 1884 The American League
record was made by the late George
(Rnbe) Waddell, who famed sixteen IN
the contest between 81. Louis and the
Athletics on July %, 1908.
Pitcher Daley struck out nineteen In
Union association game between Chi
cago and Boston on July 7. 1884. Tom
Ramsey turned seventeen batters back TO
the bench In an American association
contest between Louisville and Cleveland
on June O. 1887 and this was a remark
able performance as at that time the -four
strike rule was IN existence. on August
81 1909. william Mitchell famed twenty
batters IN Texas league game, involving
San Antonio and Galveston. During the
year 1912 Frank Davis Of the Knoxville
Appalachian league club, and Fred
Apologize OF the Blue Grass league. also
famed twenty batters. A. A. stagg, now
coach Of the University OF Chicago. while
a student at Yale struck out twenty
Princeton batters in the Yale-Princetont
game Of May Is. 1898. and this ia prob
ably the best college record to date
Harvard Plans GridirOn work.
While the cold and unreasonable
weather which has prevailed in the cast
during the last three weeks has greatly
schedules it has been a boom for spring
soot ball training at the universities,
The candidates have heen able 10 indulge
in much harder preliminary work than
was the case a year ago when the Their
mometer was from twenty 20 thirty de-
grees higher. Practice Is either conf
pleted or under way at Harvard. Prince.
ton. Yale, Cornell, Brown, Columbia. and
other institutions which feature the game
and the coaches report large squads and
much enthusiasm among both the veterans
and tho new men who win try for places
on the varsity elevens next fall
MeeRhmsn IIas Coed Idea.
The announcement by President Charlie
Weeshman ot the Chicago cubs that a
system a. FLAGS huns from prominent
buildings ia the business center 81 Chi
eago. viii be usod In the future to notify
fans 81 the section whether the game will
be played as scheduled each day, might
well be copied b club owners IN other
bic loaeue cities Newspaper offices and
other Information distributing centera are
frequently besissed ~ those who % no,
gars % make lens tglp 70 the hall park
Wulesa ,hry hFe reasonably certain thar
the teams wlll plsA Ideas N iris ttpe
wh'gh help te pNt the tsme apon 4 real
hUalnese basis ntli BE- appreciated by .
followers n ihe slaFt shersysr The sanN
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~tanfapa usises nis saw
Tire slim ~ : - eairh stamford upi
,efsnv students ere enaaag o iur a. rsise
q 0fifr ta spha he varsity efsW aaf .
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