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Show EDDIE PLANK'S FEAT RECOUNTED BY JONES Fielder Jones tells a good story on Eddie Ed-die Piank just to show what a great pitcher the southpaw is. Plank, when he is in the neighborhood of Gettysburg, Pa., where he has a ranch, always tries to visit his plants and flocks between workdays. work-days. Fielder informed Piank that he was to pitch the first game at Baltimore in a series last year. He twirled a perfect game. Then Fielder dismissed him until the end of the week, when he was to return re-turn and pitch the last game. Again he pitched and won a perfect game. The Sii-ufeds were to jump for a series at Euffalo and Jones sent Plank home to the ranch, bidding him to report at Newark the next week. Eddie pitched and won the first game, went back to Gettysburg and reported some five or six days later at Chicago, where he again pitched a perfect per-fect game. That made five rictones for the veteran vet-eran southpaw and every game was what is known as a "perfect" one among baseball base-ball players. In the period between games Piank did not have a ball in his hand and his exhibition oniy go.-s to show what a smart pitcher can do In the winning line. |