Show INTERESTING DOPE ON 1917 1911 BASEBALL The man who made the statement that Eddie Housh of the Reds leading batsman batsman batsman bats bats- man of ot the National league last season and Joe Phillie pitcher were Inthe in inthe inthe the sarno same class clans as hitters bitters would b be classed as insane yet the Quaker equaled In 1917 one of the 1316 1916 exploits Joe on May 26 batting twice in the third Inning of ot the ja game with Cincinnati struck out twice Clarence Clarence Clarence Clar Clar- ence Mitchell l who will ll be bo with ith the Su- Su in 1918 fanning him once and Elmer Elmer Elmer El El- mer Knetzer who used to be with the fanning him once The date Roush Housh got into that very small mall set of men who have done the Gus Hill Hili act twice in an inning Inning- was July 22 1916 The Phillies then were playing the Reds George Gcorge e Chalmers one of the f few w born in Scotland being the Mor Morans' Morans ins Players dont don't often whiff twice In the same s session and was the lone major leaguer of 1917 to bo be the goat of such an odd experience Eddie Roush had company in 1916 for on August 29 Bob Groom of the Browns Drowns twice retreated retreat retreat- ed to the bench In the seventh session on strikes the men who fanned him being I Ernest Grady Shore and J J. Weldon Wyckoff Bill Purtell of the White Sox whiffed twice in the sixth Inning of ot the game with Washington on May 10 1910 and Del Gainer of the Tigers took the strikeout rI coup t twice in the ninth t frame f i st J J of the contest r with Washington on August August Au Au- gust 15 1913 Purtell was batting against Walter Waller Johnson and Dixie Walker Gainer Gain Gain- er against Bert Gallia and Tom Hughes TWO HITS IN SAME INNING Annually instead of striking out twice In one olle inning payers produce a pair pall of hits In the Ule same chapter the best performance per per- of this kind on record in fast set games being Bobby Lowes Lowe's pair pall of homers off l Elton Chamberlain Chamberlan of the Reds in Boston on the afternoon of Memorial Memorial Memorial Me Me- morial day dav 1894 The Inning In which Sir Robert helped himself to a brace of circuit wallops was the third Ray Bates who worl worked d for Connie Mack J last summer and who will work for fol Uncle Sam m from now Oil on turned In the 1917 1317 classic i when afforded opportunity to take two trips to the plate in one inning in the Ibe seventh round of the tile game with Washington on APril 14 the Athletics' Athletics third baseman doubled off Charley Jamieson Jamieson Ja Ja- Ja- Ja end and nd tripled off Yancey Ayres In the same inning Amos Strunk and l Frank rank Thrasher each made two singles and scored two runs besides Bates' Bates feat of getting hits worth two and three bases in the same canto was previously accomplished by Fred Merkle of the Giants In the ninth inning of the game with Chicago on June 5 1911 Ray was not the one big leaguer of 1917 to gather two extra base smashes in one In Inning Inning inning In- In ning for Larry Gardner Gardnel of the Red Sox and Oscar C Felsch s 1 ha of the White Sox gill li weighed in with a pair of d doubles I the Easterner turning the trick against Washington in the fifth on May 29 and the Westerner against St St. Louis in the eighth on September 4 i. i Gardner batted against Harry Harper and Felsch against Tom Rogers SINGLE AND EXTRA BASE Players Payers who made a single and a hit for fol foran folan foran an extra base in the same round last sa season were Scott of Boston and Strunk of or Philadelphia in the American and Lobert of New York Wolter of Chicago Schulte of Philadelphia and Magee l of Boston in the National Of these performers performers per per- formers the best was Lobert's Hans Bans passing Artie Nehf of Boston for fol a single and a homer In the seventh on June SO 10 0 Kilduff of Chicago Olson of Brooklyn and Rawlins of Boston in the National and Thrasher Jamieson and Strunk of r Philadelphia and Walker Wacker of Boston In the American had to be content with ith making two singles in one inning the shortstop twice being credited with such a a performance Ono One of the tricks turned by Ivan Ivan iame came ame against his old team Charley Challey Jamieson of the also figured in a revenue stunt when he acquired a brace of one timers in the second inning off his famed as associate associate associate as- as Walter Vatter Johnson on September 3 3 Three men walked twice in the same session one of the patient be beIng being be- be ing a a. pitcher Jesse pitcher Jesse Barnes of the Braves Braes His companions were John Peter Wagner of the J pirates who frequently frequently frequently fre fre- fre- fre is miscalled John Hans and John Henry Wagner and Hughey High of the Yankees Those who got two passes in one inning last year jear were NATIONAL LEAGUE September 3 J. 3 J. J Wagner of Pittsburg in fifth against Cincinnati Schneider pitching October 2 Barnes 2 Barnes of Boston in third against Brooklyn pitching AMERICAN LEAGUE June S S High High of New York In first against Cleveland Bagby and Gould pitch pitching mI |