Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-04
: e SPORTING NEWS s.
Pitchers Records
For Past Series

New York, Oct CA. P)-While
unusual pitching performances have
been frequent in worlds series base
ball, the annual struggle for the
championship never has known a no
hit game. The nearest to a perfect
performance was pitched by Ed
Reulbach of the Chicago Cubs
against the Chicago White Sox in the
series of 1906.
Reulbach was found for only one
safety in that game, the famed
"Jiegs" Donohue blurring the record
with a clean single. Ruelbach walk
three.
Five two-hit games are on record.
Ed Walsh, pitching for the White
series that brought one hit fame to
Reulbach. allowed but two safe
swats and won his game, 3 to 0.
Stlll another great pitching feat was
accomplished in that series when
Nlordecai Brown, of the Cubs, held
the Sox to two blows the day after
Walsh's fine game. Brown won his
game l to O.
In 1913 Ed Plank. of Connie Mack's
great Athletics. held the Giants to
two bingles and won, 3 to l. In
1914 Bill James. of the Miracle"
team of Boston Braves. held the
Athletics to two hits and shut them
out to 0. Waite Hoyt. the youthful
star of the New York Yankees, was
found for but two hits by the Giants
in the 1921 series and won. 8 to Q.
Jack Coombs, of the Athletics,
hOr1nH tho host fhpnn-h in
world series when on October II,
1911, he defeated Christy Mathewson
and the Giants. 3 to 2 in II innings.
Coombs won five worlds series
games in his career and never was
beaten. although one game of which
he twirled a part went against his
team. He won four games for the
Athletics and, later, one for Brook
Ign.
Coombs' great record follows:
October IS, 191o-pitching for Ath-
letics against Mordecai Brown, Chi
cago Cubs; won 9 to 3, allowing
seven hits, striking out five men and
passing nine.
October 20. 1910-pitching for Ath-
letics against Ed Reulbach, Chicago
Cubs: won Il to 5. allowing six hits,
striking out eight men and passing
four.
October %. 1910-pitching for Ath-
letics against Brown. Cubs: won Z
to ., allowing nine hits, striking out
seven men and passing one.
October II. 1911-pitching for Ath-
letics against Christy Mathewson,
New York Giants: won 8 to 2. in
eleven innings. allowing three hits.
striking out seven men and passing
four.
October 10, 1916-pitching for
Brooklyn against Carl Mays, Boston
Red SoX; won 4 to 3, allowing seven
hits in six 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
finished the game. lost it 4 to 8.
BY his work in the 1910 series
Coombs became one of the four
pitchers to win three games in one
worlds series.
In 1905 Christy Mathewson won
three games for the Giants against
the Athletics. all of them shut outs;
in 1909 Charles Babe" Adams won
three Tor IlllSDuTSn against DelIoIl'
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 eleven.
Last fall Jack Scott was the pitch
ing hero of the worlds series. The
veteran Giant twirler capped his
brilliant comeback by holding the
Yankees to four hits in the third
game and banking them. 3 to 0.