Salt Lake Telegram | 1947-04-24 | Page 12 | Feller's 1-Hitter Tops Former Jobs

Fellers Feller's s Hitter 1 Tops Former Jobs Job's I By LA LAWTON LAVTON CARVER NEW V YORK April 24 INS That INS That one- one hitter which Bob Feller pitched on Tuesday against the St. St Louis Browns w was s perhaps the best performance in the major league career of the he Cleveland speed ball specialist In breaking his own record with this ninth one-hitter one he came within a single by Al Zarilla of making it his third no-hitter no and through it all he walked only one man In his previous super-efforts super he has bas shown a tendency to throw the ball every which way and has bas walked as many as nine men in his one hitters In his no hitters which came in 1940 and 1946 he walked eight men in one of the games and five in the other His 10 strikeouts also compared favorably with his twirling in this respect during those other great efforts In these his bis top lop strikeout figure was 13 twice That single by Zarilla in the seventh and anda a base on balls baBs issued to Jack Moss in the ninth were the only incidents that stood between Feller and a perfectly pitched ball gam game St. St Louis had only those two men left on base What's more the ball Zarilla nudged for a 7 single was a a change chang of pace hook that would have been called a ball if he had not reached I out and placed it cleanly in center field His aim for this season is 30 wins and he has about i a 50 chance to achieve it and further further further fur fur- ther prove his right to his place as the biggest money maker in the majors majors- jJ I