The Washington times., 1935-05-17
VET HURLERS
STAGE GREAT
BOX DUEL

Some remarkable pitching per-
Sormances have been turned in by
rockies this year.
Johnny Whitehead, Of the
White Sox, Johnny Babich, OF
the Dodgers, Vito TamuliS, Of the
Yankees and Darrell Blanton, OF
the Pirates, have earned their
major league spurs with exhibit
tions Of class that left nothing to
be desired.
But some Of the old timers,
making up for the power they've
lost from their arms by the cum
ming and knowledge they've
gained through the years, have
been equally effective in spots.
Witness, for instance, the great
game turned in by those two an
clients of the mound, Waite Hoyt
and Tom Zachary, in Pittsburgh
yesterday. Neither of these old
birds can throw a ball hard
enough to knock off your hat but
they have great control, 100 per
cent knowledge of the hitters, and
plenty of heart.
Using these assets, the two
former Yankees battled 13 innings
before old Uncle Tom brought
home the bacon, 2 to o.
Many a manager has been mis-
taken about old Tom. The Sena-
tors let him go after several use
full seasons and then the Yanks
gave up on him after season in
which he had won dozen games
and lost none. Then he plugged
along winning games for the
Braves until they finally let him
get away and here he is today,
apparently as hard to beat as
ever, turning in a 13-inning shut
out against a slugging team which
only the day before had pounded
a flock Of Philly throwers for 20
runs.
Beg for Chance
Bench warmers always beg to
be allowed to play when they see
old Tom warming up for the Dodg-
ers. They hop up to the plate
with fire in their eyes, confident
they will knock the ball down old
Toms throat. But old Tim just
stands out there Tipping the ball
with little or nothing on it, but al
ways to the spot where he wants
it to go, and the result is fly, or
a pop up or an easy grounder that
can be converted into a double
play. And back to the dug-out
goes a disguised hitter while old
Tom just grins, chews his cud and
quietly waits for the next one.
The Pirates made a dozen hits
off old Tom but none of them
when they would have done any
damage. The two teams might
have been playing yet had not
Vaughn's error paved the way for
Hoyt's downfall. Two of the nine
Dodgers hits followed and the
game was over.
Back in 1918 the Pirates won
a 2-to-0 game in 81 innings and
the Dodgers hold the major league
record for marathons, they and
the Braves playing a 26-inning IL
tie on May /, 1920. Leon Cadore
and Joe Oeschger pitched the full
route in that one and neither was
much good thereafter. But, then,
they were young while Hoyt and
Zachary are old and neither can
throw hard enough to do them
selves any harm.
Another ShutOut
Another shutout yesterday went
TO Vito TamuliS, the Yankees
stocky left-hander who trimmed
the Willis Hudlin and his brother
Indians, 10 to 0. The young Lith
has yet to be beaten.
In the only other major league
game of the day, the Tigers beat
the Senators, z to 2, with Tom
Bridges working against Bump
Hadley. Perhaps it would be more
accurate to say the Senators beat
themselves for they made six er-
rors. to discount Hadley's eight-hit
pitching. However, the Senators
might have lost in any event for
they could make but six hits off
Bridges and couldn't score until
the ninth.
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