El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-09-04
DUNCAN PITCHES
NO-HIT CONTEST
BY "BUD" RUTHERFORD

Clarence Duncan pitcher his second
no-hit no-run game of the Commercial
league season. at Rio Grande park on
sunday afternoon. when he twirled the
Seventh infantry to a decisive victory
over the Everybodys. Il TO 0. It was
the second consecutive hitless game
Of the Everybodys against the seventh
for York shut them out without a
bingle in their last encounter. On the
occasion of his first record game,
Duncan set a strikeout record but he
was not as successful in this branch
Of the game on sunday
The victory tut the Seventh in sec
ond place in the league standing and
the soldiers shape up as mighty dan
gerous right now The Wall team had
held the run-up position but their
defeat at the hands of the Feldmans
sent them down.
Drive Gillette from Mound.
With both Duncan and the speedy
Bus" Gillette twirling championship
ball. neither team scored up to the
sixth inning in the first encounter. the
soldier boys asserting themselves with
clean base hits in that session. So fast
and sure did the bingles come that for
a while II appeared as If they could
not be stopped and Gillette was
penched in favor OF seymour. from the
second sack. who pitched about ten
other Manager Red" Livingston then
threw Verne Lyman into the breach,
and the Snappy young third Sacker
succeeded in holding down the hard
hitting douShboys for the remainder of
the game, although several attempted
scoring bees looked dangerous
II IS really tragic affair, that sixth
inning, in the opinion OF the crowd and
even TWO lanky scribes who sat cross
legged in the grancStand- However.
fortunately for the scribes they had
attended some of the Army league
games. and were veterans in the matter
Of scoring runs. there being one in
stance in their history when i tallieS
were rushed around in one stanza. and
with this record to think of. they
weathered the gale easily The crowd
though were different. Numerous
calls of stop it," or .Oh my" and
What agony" and such phrases
flOated out on the field through the
wire netting. and there seemed TO be
Il general sigh Of relief when il was
over, and YOU could hardly blame them
Martin Stars With Bar.
Duncan started it by singing to left
center Nadiek laid down a perfect
hunt and beat il out at first Gallaher
was hit by a pitched ball, and Duncan
scored later when Martin slammed the
ball into deep right for two sacks. I
Barrett walked Nadjek came home on
Bybee's single into left. Barrett and I
Martin scored on DeBarr's long two !
Dagger into left, that sent the fielder
Shipping over huge pile Of mud. !
Gillette then relinquished the box to !
Seymour DeBarr scored on Kler-s |
two-bag=er into left Kler went L, |
second on the THROWN. in an attempt |
TO catch DeBarr. and came home when
tseardon singled into right Duncan /
flew out, and Nadjek doubled into cen /
ter Ted Brann just managing TO touch /
the ball with the ends Of his fingers. /
Lyman to the Rescue.
Continuing the tragedy Reard5n and
Nadlek came home when Gallaher lined {
the ball into right center for two sacks
GaItaher- in the meantime. ran around
me sacks while the Everybody club I
was doing a lot of useless throwing. /
Lyman was then hurried in from third 1
base and managed to squelch the three !
remaining Datsmen, ending the agony /
good and only one more inning to play. |
i ne mar as you would expect, gen |
tle reader proved too great and the I
Everybodys could do nothing with it |
I; +, ust 10 prove that they wanted to play, |
however. the Seventh added one more !
run IN the seventh The score: