The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-09
Many Brilliant
 Twiirling Feats
 In Past Series

NEW 1ORhs OCL. Ss--NBy ASSO- ciated Press. )-While unusual pitch . ing performances have been frequent i in worlds series baseball, the annual struggle for the championship never has known 8 no-hit game. The near i est to perfect performance Was pitched by I'd Ruelbach of the Chi cago Cubs against the Chicago White Sox in the series of 1906.
 Ruelhach was found for only one safety In that game, the famed 'Jiggs' Donohue blurring the record with clean single. Ruelbach walk cd men, however, and famed three.
 Five two-hit games are on record Ed Walsh. pitching for the White Sox against the Cubs If the same se- ries that brought one-hit fame to Ruelbach, allowed but two safe swats and won his game, 3 to 0. Still an- other great pitching feat was ac- complisfied in that series when Nor ; decair Brown, of tho Cubs, held the | Sox to two blows the day after game 1 to c.
 In 1913 Ed Plank,of Connie Mack's great Athletics, held the Giants to two bingles and won. Soto l. In 1914 Bill James, of the Miracle" team of Boston Braves. held the Athletics to two hits and shut them out, 1 to 0. Waite Hoyt, the youthful star of the New York Yankees, was found for but two hits by the Giants i'll the 1921 series and won, 3 to 0.
 Jack Coombs of the Athletics hurl- ed the best three-hit game in world series when on October IT, 1911, he defeated Christy Mathewson and the Giants, to In Il innings. Coombs won five worlds series games in his career and never was beaten. al- though one game of which he twirl- ed part went against his team. He won four games for the Athletics and, later, one for Brooklyn.
 Coombs'. great record followss
 October IS, 1s10-pitching for Ath- cago Cubs; won 3 to 3, allowing hits, striking out five men and pass ing 9.
 October 20, 191e-pitching for Ath- letics against Ed Ruelbach, Chicago Cubs; won 12 to 5, allowing 6 hits, striking out men and passing four.
 October 2s. 191e-pitching for Ath- letics against Brown. Cubs won to 9. allowing hits, striking out men and passing one
 October IT, 191f-pitching for Ath- letics against Christy Mathewson. New York Giants; won to 9, In II innings. allowing three hits. strik- ing out men and passing four. October 10, 1s16-pitching for Brooklyn against Carl Mays. Boston Red Sox; won to 3, allowing ' hits in and one-third innings, striking out one man and passing one.
 In 1911 against the Giants Coombs slightly injured himself and was forced to retire in the tenth inning with the score tied. Plank, who fin ished the game. lost 1t 4 to 3.
 By his work in the 1910 series Coombs became one of the four pitch CTS to win three games in one worlds series.
 In 1905 Christy Mathewson won three games for the Giants against the Athletics, al of them, shut-outs; in 1909 Charles Babe" Adams won three for Pittsburg against Detroit; and in 1920 Stanley Coveleskie. of Cleveland. won three games from Brooklyn.
 Young Waite Hoyt's pitching in the 1921 series for the Yankees against the Giants is recorded among the best Hoyt won two of the three games he pitched. He allowed IS base hits, two runs, struck out IS men and passed II.
 Last fall Jack Scott was the pitch ing several opponents every week. veteran Giant twirler capped his bril- liant comeback by holding. the, Yam kees to four hits in the third game and blanking them. to O.