The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-03-28

watched the game, III WHICH OAHOl
sands of people we're unable to ga
Speaker, Lewis and Hooper-one
Of the finest outfield machines in
baseball history-were behind Wood.
with the exception Of my first
world series appearance, no game
In my eighteen seasons Of baseball
ever caused such advance interest
as the one in Boston. Wood and
had often clashed before but this
game seemed to be the climax and
wanted to win 80 badly. But
I Joe was smoker" that day than
at any time L had ever seen him
and Washington was unable to
score.
Wood had a great arm and no
end Of nerve. remember one
inning of that game as an example
OF his. backbone In a pinch. Nc
Bride started off with a two-base
hit Ainsmith dumped q hunt,
advancing Mcbride to third base.
Eddie was out. followed him
With q bounder to Wood. BY the
time they ran Mcbride down, L
had reached second base. Wood
got little wild and gave the next
batter, Clyde Milan, four wide balls.
Foster, seeing Wood was ratified,
took three balls in q row and
finally walked to first. With three
men on base, Joe Wood gave one
Of his famous exhibitions Of pitch
ing by striking out our next batter
and retiring the side. This took
some Of the fight out Of our club
and I was finally defeated in what
ever pitched.
In August, 1918, washington
was running along IN third place,
only four games behind the
Ieague-leading Red Sox. Cleveland
In second place was only one
game In front Of Washington.
We had beaten Detroit In the
two previous games and also that
day In the first game Of .
double-header. / pitched the final
game and, after working eighteen
innings, Ty Cobb came through
with single that beat me. to :.
From q standpoint Of physical ex-
ertion, believe this was the hard
est game ever lost. Several weeks
previous, I had defeated the White
Sox In eighteen innings, but the
game at Detroit was much
harder job. It was not a well
epitched game as the box score
would show, with 16 hits by the
Tiger batters. That was the day
Ty Cobb had been to bat thirteen
times in a double-header and only
got two hits. But It showed Cobb
at his best, because Of all things
In the world no one ever called
Cobb q gutter.
He came up in the eighteenth
O batting average Tor the day that
was nearly zero. But that meant
nothing to Cobb, and realized 1t
as I faced him. walter, I think
you're getting tired" he said, as he
came up swinging his three bats.
figured he was trying to get my
goat q little 90 I didn't reply but
settled down to pitching. 1t had
rained early in the afternoon and
was now pretty dark. I tried to
put e fast one past the inside but
Cobb was ready and drove the ball
20 the outfield and the winning
run came home.
The game at Detroit in 1913 and
the eighteen-inning game against
Chicago In the same year were the
two longest ever pitched. The
extra inning game against the
White 6Ox was far better exhi-
.bition and very exciting. Claude
williams, Chicago's star left-hander,
was In the box and lost his own
game and it was remarked that
both pitchers could have gone many
more innings.
It's worth mentioning that that
long game started at 4:SO and
ended 1T 7:17, finishing the entire
SwRa sw1
81 minutes, or an average Of l
hour and % minutes for the reg
ula4ion nine innings. The best
thing about my work that day
was effective control, as i only
issued one base on balls in the
eighteen innings. / struck out
nine White SOx players, Claude
William tanning five times in sue
eessiOn.
Another long game was at st.
Louis about 1908 or 1909. The
thing / remember best, being the
work Of Bill Dineen, now an UNI
pire in the American League. /
think that was my last game
against Bill. He was some pitcher
/ in his day and on this particular
afternoon held Washington to two
teen innings we didn't even score.
Twenty-Five names were in the box
score that afternoon and only two
are still in the major leagues, one
IN umpire, the other is pitcher,
Bill Dineen and myself.
One OF the fastest, and think
one Of the best games I ever pitched
was against Cleveland, when La joie
was still in the lineup. He played
first base and we won that day by
O score Of to /, in one hour and
twenty-seven minutes. The feature
Of that game to me was that in
the full nine innings / only pitched
sixty-nine balls. The previous rec
ord was seventy.two. Ted Easterly
came up as pinch hitter in the
ninth inning and robbed me Of a
shut-out game by slamming the first
pitched ball over the fence. Tine
next three batters, including LaJoie
were retired In order. Lajoie was
easy but Ted Easterly who had
played with me back in my kid
days, had 70 be the one to rob me
OF q no-hit game.
4 recall q dozen different times
-, HanIraA Iflra n vSafa1,k ,.yt,r