The sun., 1919-10-26
NO HIT PITCHERS
SCARCE IN 1919
Only Hod Ellcr and Roy Cald-
we'll Entered Hall Of Fame
Last Season.
ONE IN EACH LEAGUE
Johnson and MNsst fiesMd.
Nine Hitless Frames in En-
ira Inning Games.
nv FREDERICK q. LIEB.
cnrpnaht. lsle; all riqhts reserred.


and Ray Caldwell, the Yankee outcast,
now with Cleveland, Joined the no hit
celebrities Of baseball during the 1919
campaign.
Eller evidently got his famous whip
nrimed up early in the campaign, as
ne pitched his no hit game against the
st. Louis Cardinals on May IL. The
zane was played in Cincinnati. the Reds
winning by a score of to O. Judging
from Eller's work in the worlds series,
ne was just as good in October as he
vas in May.
Caldwelrs no hit game was against
the Yankees, the team with which he
was so long associated. 1t was one Of
the most remarkable of all no hit games
as Caldwell was believed to be through
last winter In fact Ed Barrow, the
Red Sox manager. thought so little of
Caldwell that ne never even gave him
A chance against his former teammates.
In August he was handed his uncon-
ditional release by the Boston club and
practically every New York sport writer
wrote his swan song, with a little SER
mon as TO the kind of pitcher Ray
might have been had this world pos
sessed less temptations for the weak
willed ball player.
Got Even with Yankees.
Iris Speaker, manager Of the Cleve-
land club. was short of pitchers about
this time. and getting chance to pick
up Caldwell without the cost of a penny
gave him another chance. Caldwell
pitched good ball for Cleveland right
from the start. and when he got his
first chance to oppose his old team the
man who was supposed to be down and
out celebrated the feat by retiring the
Yankees without hit or run. It was
only the second no hit American League
game played in New York. Caldwell
scored his no hit victory on the Polo
Grounds on September 10. winning the
contest by score of 3 to 0.
No hit games have been quite scarce
in the major leagues following the sea-
son OF 1917, when a record of six no hit
games was established. There have been
only three since 1917. Dutch Leonard,
now Of Detroit but in 1918 a member of
the Red SoX pitched no hit victory
over the Tigers on June 3, 1918, a few
weeks later.
Not the semblance Of a hit was made
of Eller in his brilliant victory over the
Cardinals. Three of the Hickey players
reached base, but they got on on bases
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striking out nine White Sox in a worlds
series game. also was in a pretty good
whiting mood that day. as he struck out
eight OF the ST. Louis batsmen.
Scarce in Cincinnati.
No hit Cincinnati pitchers are mighty
scarce. However. the last no hit game
In the National League prior to Eller's
also was turned in by Redland box
man. He was Fred Toney. now of the
Giants On May 2. 1917. Toney pitched
one Of the most remarkable no hit games
In the annals OF the sport. That was the
contest in which both Toney and Jim
Vaughn went through nine innings with
Out either yielding a. hit Toney also
bod the Cubs hitless in the tenth inning.
but Big Hippo" Of the Chicagos weak
ened in the second half and the Reds
edtted out victory by score Of ! to o.
While the last two no hit games in the
National League have been turned in by
Cincinnati pitchers, there was almost
generation between Toney's no hit game
and the one pitched prior to that by a
| cincinnati pitcher. The veteran left
handler The" Breitenstein, pitched a no
hi game against Pittsburg on April 20.
lNFs There was a gap OF twenty-one
years between that game and the ten
inning no hit contest twirled by Toney.
Caldwen's Work Brilliant.
Caldwell's no hit game was a brilliant
performance The lean telegrapher. who
apparently had lost all his speed when
b wls traded by Miller Higgins. came
back with fast ball that had the snap
and break" TO It that made Caldwell's
pitching famous four years ago. In ad-
ehon, Ray cultivated spitball which
b. used with telling results
The sluggers of the New York lineup
we're entirely at his mercy and few hard
BIT balls were jolted off his delivery.
1 me Yankees got only two men on base
Hannah walked and Baker got on first
On an error by Pratt. Caldwell struck
out five men, getting young Fewster
three times.
Caldwelrs no hit game was only the
Second no hit American League game
played in New York. The other was
pitched by old Cy Young, then 40 years
OH, on the old Hilltop grounds. Cy
pitched his no hit game against Elber-
reds tailenders of that season on June
" 1908. It was the third no hit game
the veterans long and honorable
career.
| Inc Yankees have been mixed up IN
OILY two other no hit games in their
seventeen years as a member Of the
american League. Both of their other
appearances In no hit box scores took
pace in Boston. In 1916 George Foster.
we former Rex Sox star, pitched q no
VIZ game against the Yankees, and
Ear later in Fenway Park. George Mog-
age' the lanky New York lefthander.
tuNea a no hit victory against the
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e'eF turned in by a New York Ameri-
van tWirler In 1910 Tom Hughes lost
e OF the toughest contests ever
taopped by pitcher. He held Cleve-
- without hit for nine innings, but
INDIANS got to him for their FIRST hit
l"e tenth and then beat him in the
,e"lh' That was the nearest any
49,, Yankee pitcher came to getting
INTO the no hit class.
'he Work by Hoyt and johnson.
While Eller and Caldwell are the only
ny ~. who are officially credited with
mi games in 1919, Walter Johnson,
s"'iils'ons star. and Waite Hoyt, the
he pay brooklyn youngster now with
,,v rec sox. pitched nine successive in
snss during the course of extra innings
X, ts IN which they did rot permit a
so,hS IVY so' only honorary mention for 1t.
"a games were pitched against the
tveln'.ses' Walter Johnson getting
Nm. inning tie and Hoyt a thirteen in
M. me same Sunday In which Hod
card,Ip Iehed his no hit game against the
licsns"l IN Cincinnati Walter johnson
thi.s game on the Polo Grounds
t,,t.n some ways was even more re-
lmsrlae' II was the FIRST Sunday
League game played in New