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Show TOM ROGERS KURLS PERFECT BALL GAME Tom Ropers, of Nashville, pitched .1 perfect ejune opainst Chattanooga at Nashville, .Inly 11. In niuo innings he did not allow a runner to reach first base and thus at tnined the pi nunc le of fame in baseball. base-ball. The Nashville team got hut one hit off Allen, of the Lookouts, and that helped in the scoring of two runs, which ivunc iu the seventh inning. Thus the crime was a remarkable pitching exhibition ex-hibition from both sides. Allen hit one man and cave two bases on balls. There were few hard hit balls ott' Rogers' delivery and these wore taken care of cleanly. His outfielders had four chances. Ten assists were made in the came and 12 01 the 27 men who faced "Rogers went out at first base. The pitcher struck out four batters. According to reports this was the fou r t h p e r fee t game pitched in tho southern league, the others to perform the feat being Irving Wilhelm, Tom Fisher and ,loe Keeiian. Fisher's camo was for Shreveport against Nashville, YVilhctni and Kecnan were Birmingham pitchers and accomplished their feats aizainst Montgomery nnd Nashville, respectively, re-spectively, lr was the last came Kee-nan Kee-nan won in the Southern league, and the remarkable thing about his game was that he did not strike out a batter and his catcher did not have a putout. Ropers is recopni.ed as the speed merchant of the Southern league and is pretty sure to go up in the fall, probably prob-ably 'to the St. Louis "Drowns. Ue is a native Tmnesseean, |