The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-24
|LlkW|LL Be
|back IN MAJORS
WnetIred'' So As TO Get on a
Real Ball Club.
ne LOST HIS LAST GAME
Entered Big Show With COL
lege Experience Only,

nat Eddie Plank's announced retire
0ont from tho game FOR good was only
o'oubterfugs and that his real intention
- 10 ret away from q calender and
haFth on = bettsr team. Is the be-
~ u. u. Louis fans.
V1Asn Plank left 81. Louis last fall,
MS with the understanding that he
wolA b. traded to another club pref
Ql0hty 10 one In the east. But a deal
t10lu1ing Plank did not materialire. and
~ 1ulned the team In the Npring with
t~oluctancs. Twice he was reported to
1Ays had difficulty with the Brown man,
aGomept and spent several vacations
q Nome, The II. Louis Post Dispatch
1oCU Of Plank;
80 Sest Vsar OF Career.
Although this 10 Plank's seventeenth
iU1ason In major league baseball, he 10
N1Dytng one OF the best pf his career.
"a, re has pitched l2s ia innings this
3bDen and has yielded only twenty%nlne
- runs. an Avsrase OF ao7 per nine
fNis L q better efficiency mark than
- owned in any YEAR excepting 1918. IN
~ season With i.0i.
Flank lost the last game he pitched
~ the Browns against Washington on
August :. I to 0. In eleven innings. In this
ooAteot he oppoesd Walter johnson and
6lnIty outhurled the flreball king In
e5oVen ROUNDS ne gave ohlY nNo
DolOttes, two Of them coming In the final
S1bne, Prior to this he had shut out
~ 0riffmsn July 20 with seven hits.
ISSnard and the He'd sox . TO 2, giving
i've hits, al Of them coming In the first
Complete 1917 Record.
MI IL as follows;
Inn. n. n FER. 80. IN. w. l..
~ ~ los 80 70 % IS s
Flank came 10 the American league
~ 1901 With no previous experience In
~ minors. Connie Mack picked him up
NV. hurting for 0sttysburg COLLEGE and
~ left Islander. Immediately developed
. winner. Hia first season with
GnnNe Mack he won seventeen games
lost eleven. . winning percentage OF
i11eog the worlds series OF 1914 with the
Uoeoa Braves. when Mack tore down his
yonl1AD club, which many thought war
- ureateet ever put together. Plank
Wlth Bender and Coombs. wah given hii
N~npeaditional release and signed with
: ~ *. Louis Fsdsrals. In all he ha'
hoen With Mack fourteen years.
IN Five Worlds Series.
During this time his best years wer
~. when he won seventeen and los
Nj 1911, whom no finlshed with twenty
}6S.AGM. .1Ss, and 1919, when he woun
r. N kWentybix-sayx ~, aluteugh b
yAv9t avsra8 ofvl,u sMthsd mkfkt'
$esswiots 4 {hlS Jason IA X
y. l., NJ In 1919. With the Browns. whc
- Wou6ftsen and lost fourteen. and wa
SoupoaSlM for ?.a3 tallies a game.
n 8 member OF Connie MAck's crew
S4nk won q bonus In five worlds series
~ n I'M h played against tho Giants.
u 1910 he opposed the famous Chicag,
ON q Frank Chance.
y, 1911 and isn he faced McGraw'
ID islt he played against the Braves
- pitched seven games, won tvo~an,
Win Feds One Year.
After having Mack Plank was wit
b ~ Federals one veal and then wen
0vor 10 the Browns whcn peace WAS de
s7oonSed. In the Federal he won twenty-on
~ tost eleven and yielded 2.0i earne
\ lvoo . game. which allowed him to lea
~ .lAaGue.
flah the Browns ne won twenty gam
oU0Ntoat . like number. pitching In 8
- '1p6f the past few years Plank h
= g>1n\NA more with his mead than with h
M q much Of his speed. while he nev
~ Any to spare. has departed, But
100o 'tl0W ball" his opponents to TN
h u ysar old. married and has o
Plank hAs saved his money and