The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-28
THEY PLAYED THE CAME Five Consecutive Shutouts And 65 Innings Sans Base On Balls; Doc White Is Pitching For Sox
Forty-fourth in a series By HARRY CRIMSON (NEA Sports Editor)

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 Dr. Guy Harris White was a slim southpaw who pitched key games for the old Hitless Wonders.
 Although the White Sox of that time were notoriously weak offen- sively, they won 19 straight enroute to the American league pennant and world championship in 1906, thanks principally to the strong arms of Big Ed Walsh. Yip Owen and the left-handers, Nick Altrock and Doc White
 White still holds a major league record-five consecutive shutouts in 1904. within a space of Is days, he whitewashed Addie Joss and Cleve- land with seven hits, 10; Siever and St. Louis with one hit, 10; Kitson and Detroit with two hits, 90; Andy Coakley and Philadel- phia with four hits, 40; and Hap py Jack Chesbro and New York with three hits, 40.
 On October 2, with only one day of rest, White essays to pitch both ends of double-header against New York in Chicago. He won the opener, 7-1, with his skein of score less innings broken in the first in- ming, when Wee Willie Keeler singled and was worked around and across thep late. White shut out the Highlanders the next eight rounds.
 With Boston, New York and Chicago neck and neck, and not far from the wire, more than 30000 fans clamored for White to pitch the nightcap.
 ONLY JOHNSON AND MATTY
 It was a case of the pitchter go- ing to the well once too often White blanked the Highlanders the first three rounds, however, making II in a TOW following the luckless opening stanZa of the first game. Only for that he would have estab- lished an all-time major league record of 57 scoreless innings, which Walter Perry Johnson would not have exceeded with 56 in 1913.
 So remarkable was Whites con- trol that he still holds the American league record for consecutive in- nings without a base on balls-65 in 1907. Only the immortal Christy Mathewson of the New Yorl, Giants and the National league exceeded this-with 68 in 1913.
 White, dentist, hopped directly from Georgetown university to the Rhillies in 1901, jumped to the White Sox and the American league in '03. In 13 years in the majors, he bagged 1Z games while dropping 154, although the Pale Hose, with whom he spent II campaigns, batted as low as PIP and never more than .269.
 White was to Charles A. Comis- key and his managers what Eddie Plank was to Connie Mack.
 The doctor held an amazing wiz ardry over the otherwise slugging Detroit club, especially while the Tigers were winning three pennants in succession-1907-0 -08-09.
 Cleveland was also right down Whites left-handed alley, winning just 10 of the 34 games in which the slender collegian opposed the Maps.
 Napoleon Lajoie calls White one of the hardest to hit safely. In 98 trips, the incomparable Frenchman got exactly P hits off the doctor for an aVeraoe of 247
 White figured in as many close games as any man who ever threw a baseball-60. Of 26 10 games, he won 15. He won nine 20 shutouts and of p 2-1 battles he prevailed in 15. He blanked rivals 52 times. NOT PAINLESS TO RIVALS
 In 1906, no more than 33 runs were scored agairst White in 25 games, for an earned-run average of 1.32, which was exceeded only by Walter Johnson's sensational 1,O9 in 1913
 In his last seven seasons, White walked less than one man per nine innings. In 1907, he issued no more than 33 passes in Al engagements, won 27 games, lost 13,
 Shelled in the second game, White finished up as the White Sox won the fifth of the 1906 world series from the Cubs and he pol ished of Tinker to Evers to Chance & Go. in the final the following afternoon.
 White, as good looking as ever at 63, preferred to use his middle name, thus Dr. G. Harris White. He had a pleasing voice. wrote songs in collaboration with Ring Lardner, played the piano well,
 Dr. G. Harris White was a den- tist. but he wasn't painless to oppo- nents in baseball.
 NEXT: Miller Huggins.