Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-07-22 | Page 11 | 1917 Will be to Pitchers What 1885 Was to Big League Batters

E e i 13 Is Iser er Jr a a. his lis lise be- be e eee see ee e chy ch y- y ball baIt lIt lItIs 11 Is th his lis lison on us ex ex- x- x L er that athe at attie the heh tie he I Ih h- h hall all st ball aIl i I Is eye ye I j I It- It goy I the 1 79 7 9 I 1 7 Will mil Be to Pitch Pitchers ers What Wh What at 1 1885 Was to io Big B g League Batters B I I I it I i rt Lo I II I I I I I 1 i. i I Fred Toney Does What Only Two Other Other Pitchers Pitcher's Hid Had Done Pitched Ten Innings With No Hits No Runs HE year of at 1917 will go down downin T THE in baseball history as one ono of just as 1885 is known as the year of ot Whether the edge on the hurlers' hurlers side of the column will be great enough to call for changes in rules to even up the balance will be up to the rules committee to decide after the season is over With less than a month of ot the season gone the greatest pitching feats in the history of baseball have been equaled or beaten Before the first month had been clocked ed of oft off the seasons season's record of ot four no- no hit no-hit lt nine-inning nine games Barnes mes made by both leagues in 1916 had been equaled in addition to which Fred Freel Toney the Cincinnati pitcher premier had done what only two other pitchers have accomplished pitched ten innings without a hit or run McIntire of Brooklyn and Hooks Wiltse of New Nw York were the two who accounted for ten hitless hitless hitless hit- hit less frames While Toney was tying a worlds world's record Jim Vaughn was helping him set a new one by pitching nine hitless innings In the game the first time In baseball baseball baseball base base- ball that two clubs have gone along ahng nineteen half halt innings without a hit Considering that all of these records records records rec rec- were made in cold weather under climatic conditions unsuitable unsuitable unsuitable able for extraordinary pitching what is to be expected when warmer warm warm- er breezes come along to comb out the knots in the pitchers' pitchers arms That 1914 is to be a year of ot su- su is also shown by the number of one two and three-hit three games already pitched eclipsing all former records