The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-03
POINTERS ON HOW TO DOPE
 OUT PITCHER GIVEN BY STAR

Only ball player can exactly un- derstand how I felt.
 As a matter of fact we didn't need the runs, but 1t was those that gave us q start. The final score of the game was Pittsburg 8. Detroit Q. So many of the fans who have been good enough to read what I have written have asked odd ques- tions about queer pitching and oddly pitched games that will answer them all in one lump. I reckon that will be about the best way.
 The most peculiar and surprising pitching that ever saw in bali game was done by Christy Mathew son in game at the old Exposition park in Pittsburg when the Giants and Pirates were fighting it out for the pennant. Matty was at his best then.
 A Game without One Curve.
 In the first inning he started whipping fast balls at our batters and not one of, us could touch him. Not once did he give me . curve or . slow ball. or even his fadeway. Every time I came up it was a fast and gee. it had smoke! zip! zip! zip! just like that.
 whats he using?" I asked Claude
 
 bench.
 "All he's pitched to me is q fast ball every time," said Claude.
 That's all I've seen, too." Fred Clarke agreed.
 As the game went along we talked and talked, trying ito get 8 line on what the big fellow had.
 After we were. shut out and went to the clubhouse. we checked up haffAr ne bod seen anything but & fast ball. Is other words. Mathewson had pitched an entire nine innings without offer ing anything like a curve. He had got away with his fast one to start and kept right at it.
 think that is the only ball game ever pitched in which the pitcher did not use a curve or a slow ball at any time in the game.
 Matty, you know, often chang his system. If he started in making some batter bite at his big loop curve he would keep right on toss- ing it until somebody got hold of it. Anything that was going good was good enough for Matty. He never experimented unless in hole. But let me-tell you something. When that old boy got in a hole he sure could bear down on the old apple, as Udll pAdyCIS hdN0 a way Oh saying They never made any better pitchers than Matheyson. was pitched by Mcintyre one day when we were playing the Dodgers at Brooklyn.
 Five Hit In Eleventh Inning. For nine innings he didn't allow anything that looked like hit. but unfortunately. the Brooklyn club cnllld mt make and fha went into extra innings with the score 0-o. Mcintyre kept right on polishing us off in the tenth. At the end of that inning everybody was talking about Mcintyre having pitched & no-hit ten-inning game, which we thought would sure be record.
 the eleventh and ~we' finally beat him To in the thirteenth inning. When a pitcher can pitch ten-in- ming no-hit' game and then get beat l I consider that the champion hard luck of the world.
 l believe Leon Ames once pitched a nine-inning no-hitter at the Polo | Grounds and got beat. George Wiltse later pitched a ten-inning no-hitter
 Old Iberg. to my way of thinking had the oldest delivery of any pitched slow balls and curves Is feet high between the pitchers box and the plate, dropping them right over the pan. How he did that was never able to figure.
 Jim Vaughan had no preliminary action at all in the box. He took no wind up at all-simply stood straight up and snapped the ball at the batter as if he was handing him l something. Manufacturer always dropped his arm low behind him and looked ex- | actly as If he were lifting . tonkof lead before each delivery. I used to grunt with him. I'd feel like was