| Show I I f r S Sports t 5 Por l Mirror Jt t fly 1 JOHN MOONEY Telegram Sports s Editor it Imagine e a pitcher getting etting t two o. o tr triples ples and driving in t t seven runs in m a world series game winning vinning w the game 9 1 9 1 and then finding out several wee weeks la late e. e that it wasn't legit t- t as the boys on Regent street t would say ay Well VeIl that was the case of Walter Valter Dutch Reuther former major league pitcher and at present scout for the Chicago Cubs in the National Nation league At least feast that was rf r the story told by Dutch Wednesday noon at the Alta ti club at a dinner hono honoring ng Charley ChaHey Graham boss of the San Francisco Seals Rec Recall if you ou can you old oid timers the baseball wor world d series of L f. maybe Reuthers Reuther's feat will be more familiar It 11 t was the first game of the series and Dutch was opposing the famous White Sox club from Chicago with Eddie Collins Shoeless Joe 6 jJackson j J Jackson Buck Weaver Happy Felsch Ray Schalk and Swede Risberg in the hc Chicago line Une Its It's old stuff how the White Stockings were on odds-on favorA favorites favor favor- J A t ites and its it's old stuff how the gamblers got to several of the White So Sox causing the infamous Black Sox Scandal dal of 1919 Anyway Dutch went out there and pitched Cincinnati to io a lopsided victory playing a big part in winning his own ball game by driving ng in those seven runs runs only only to read weeks later that tat the whole up set-up was as phoney as a South Clark street tip on the ponies ponies and and only you sports who have hav followed a South Clark street tip can tell how such a bit of info can be But Dutch wasn't the only timer to come through Jat at the platter literally and figuratively at this dinner offered offered offered of- of by E. 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O Howard to o Graham and various other baseball notables and fans Eddie Mulligan general manager of the Salt Lake Bees came am through with a couple of snappers including this pair Eddie played shortstop in Detroit in 19 1922 2 the afternoon after- after noon Charley Chancy Robertson p pitched the last perfect no-hit no run no-run runner reach ball game in major ajor 7 league history uy You ou know Eddie rec recalled I HI was playing third base that year b but t our regular shortstop was hurt th that t day and andI I took his place I played the whole game and never had one one chance in the field The uThe pitching of pf Robertson was particularly outstanding out outstanding st standing too when you realize that there was an overflow crowd that Sunday a and d fans we were si sitting ting in the outfield making it possible to get a ground rule double on a fly ballint ball int into the crowd y yet t Charley went all the way and never allowed a hit o I I remember the game well too because only two extra exira base hits were recorded in the game I got a double into the crowd and so did Sheeley We VI e beat Herman Heiman Pil- Pil lett Jett who's still around the Coast league 2 0 as Robertson retired 27 men in a row Eddie also recalled playing in the Coast league one day and taking part in a out five-out inning I r was was playing third base for the Missions he mused and the bases were full Turpin now pitching for Seattle was at atthe the plat plate and and he had a tendency to line the ball tc left field although he batted left-handed left t I figured just how I would pull a triple play on his liner and get us out of f that tha hole bole since there were none away Sure enough Turpin lined a drive at me I l let t it trickle off oft my glove and hit the ground near third base Then I touched the runner on third one out next I touched third base I 4 forcing the runner coming in from second I threw to second to force the man at that base and the second baseman threw to first to retire the batter making four outs The umpire was wasco wasso co so confused by the swift play that he called one man out twice at second making five outs That brought up Manager l Tom story in a re recent recent recent re- re cent Bee Dee game in which Mel l Skelley had bad a chance to make a triple play almost by himself Pitcher John was wasI w I- hit bit on th the head hend by a line drive which was deflected in the theair theair theair air into Skelley's glove Mel stepped on second to retire f the runner who had led off and then threw to at 9 v first to catch that runner off base But Tom Toni claims Mel l Melr could have down he if he r run runner he had so 50 desired Charley Graham although o out t of active playing for a few years came ame up with the best of the triple play stories It happened in 1900 when Johnson Pueblo pitcher made madean an unassisted sted triple play without ever throwing a ball Here's Heres how it happened But first o one e must realize that in those days there was no balk ruling hampering hampering th the pit pitchers pitcher's hers her's movement to the bases i T The e sacks were loaded and none were out when Johnson John JohnI JohnIson son caught the runner off first and chased him down finally finally final final- 1 ly tagging him out Meanwhile the runner on second secand made madea a break for third and Johnson did the same thing At this point the runner on third made a break for home and Johnson beat him to the plate with a desperate sprint making making mak mak- ing three outs Graham should know of what he speaks since jince the box score of that game lists Graham ham catcher Others at the banquet banque were Hugh Ferguson Joe Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick Fitz- Fitz z patrick Manager Andy Harrington of oC Twin Falls Claude Engberg secretary of the Bees and yours truly Engberg incidentally came up with this local remnant on Ferguson In the old days of the Utah Copper league the com corn competition competition petition for lor ball players became so strong that a limit was placed on the club that no ball baU player could be paid more than Jhan the wage scale on oft the bill Mil of a day Tg A I Eddie Swede Swenson cracked a whale yhale of a liner to deep left field made third base and sat down although the ball hadn't been fielded yet f. f Go home hornel Ferguson shouted 1 Nuts Nuts' Swenson shot back Im not making any borne home in this for three six bits runs league a day i Gr Graham ham closed th the informal story telling sess session session h with somber on her note t XO f One day the boy from the Scoreboard came in iri to to- to ask sk 4 p 94 a Following PI s r. r I ports Mirror j I X Continued From P receding Preceding Page V Ta ri h old Id baseball aIl to give to the old timer sit sitting ing out there here him I asked who it was and he said the man said his arne c w was H Hal a Chase i eel Immediately that here this Hal Chase cili y it c came me to me me called d the Peerless Leader in In baseball who ranks as on of th the could have bee been been e great great first basemen of all time Corned de if hed he'd taken care o of ir n any park in the country But ut he chose to mixed up with with the me wron wrong t tand get c and d today hes he's just another baseball derelict That's 1 hat at t lesson for all athletes p An And Ad ton Mr Howard young always the smiling and ge genial host I J the h meeting i tI i. i |
