, 1922-11-16
ROBERTSON HAS
PERFECT
CAME SINCE 1903
1880 Last Mark in National OF
Blameless Pitching; Barnes
Gets No-Hit Credit.

For the first time In the history OF
the American league no pitcher in the
ban Johnson family was able TO ring
nm a one.hit game in the 1929 race
This constitutes a freak record for the
lively ball.
There have been many seasons with
ont n no-hit game in the big leagues.
This year there were two no-hAt
games, one In each circuit. including
Tint rare performance labeled a per
tfect' game. in which a hurler docs
mot allow an opponent 10 reach first
base alive. That makes II all the
more peculiar that nobody In the
American league was able 10 deliver
a one-hit performances, although there
were two OF them in the National
Robertson Has Perfect Game.
The seasons records furnish an
other proof that the alabmen have
been unable to recover their mastery
OF the diamond pastime in the face OF
the lively ball and the abolition OF
= freak deliveries, Games in which a
team was held to three hits or less IN
nine INNINGS werc so ~infrequent as
to command comment. Half a dozen
years ~ they were as common as
home ms nowadays.
10 IhnTigA INRpGlIHpl oA AAt W hAA
sox belongs the glory OF pitching the
first perfect" game that has been
recorded in big league books fof many
seasons. Not since 1908 in the Ameri-
can league and 1850 in the National
league has a pitcher kept his antag-
onists from reaching first base during
nine rounds. That the White Sox
rookie achieved his distinction in n
-. fC-- hAf m NVGFR scarce
and difficult 70 pitch lends greater
4 effuigence to his halo. The last to
earn It before Robertson was Addie
Joss of the Cleveland team. In the his
toric game in which he triumphed
over Ed Walsh by n count Of / to o.
late IN the 1905 race.
Barnes Hurts No. Hit Game.
Jesse Barnes Of the Giants pitched
the only no-hit game of the year in
the National league against h Phil
lies. Doak OF St. Louis twice came
within n single OF making n no-hit
niche for himself. He held the Giants
10 one safety in May and the Philies
10 the same low mark in July. No
pther hurler in either circuit got tSAt
elose to a hitless game.
This year there were twenty games
an the National and twenty-nine In
3he American league in which three
hits or less were tabled for a S-am.
last year there We're only eighteen
such games in the National and TWEEN
Ef-,-six IN the American. But the year
before there were eighty OF them in
the two majors. The record for low
thit games of nine or more innings this
year follows;
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
No-Fit Game.
May ~. Barnes CNew York; vsl
One,Hlt Games.
May 11-Doak (st. Louis vs.. New
York.
July 1s-Doak est. Louis vs.. Phil
Two-mt Games.
June 2O-couch tc3ac1nnstp VS.. Bos-
July 4-Aldrldge Chicago vs.
Pittsburgh.
July Il-Haines Cst. Louis, vs.. Phil
adelphia-
sept. ss-osoorne cchIcaEo, vs.. st.
Louis.
Oct. 1-McN,mara Boston) vs. New
York.
Three-Hit Games.
April lo-1aines Is. LOUIS vs.
Pittsburgh.
April 2o-Donahue- Gillespie tcinoin-
natD w. Chicago.
April 26-Tixey oCIncilna,D vs.. st.
Louis.
May 1-shriver 6rooklyn) vs.. rhn-
adelphla-
May 1o-Mesdows philadelphia vs.
Chicago.
May l7-Donohue cIncinnatD vs..
Philadelphia
MAY i9-couch Cincinnati VS.. Phil
: adelphia-
June 11-Luque tcincinnati) vs..
Kew York.
June 29--Toney Cew York vs.. Phil
adelphia.
July Hooper pittsburgh VS..
Boston.
Sept. 2O-Grimes grooklyn) VS.. st
Louis.
sept. a2-Markis cincInnaaj vs.
4, Boston.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
No-Hif Game.
ApTl 3O-Robertson Chicago IS