Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-08 | Page 16 | First Hitless Game Was Pitched by a College Twirler

FIRST GAME CAME m WAS PITCHED BY BYA BYA A COLLEGE TWIRLER Mann of Princeton Tossed the First N Hit No-Hit Con Contest test Far Bac in 1875 The rhe official baseball records do not t show how howIt It It but It Is Js interesting to know that the first hit no-hit game In all alt baseball lI history was as pitched by Mann oC of Princeton against Yale May ay 1875 ThIE performance created a stir at the tho time but baseball was as a side issue and not noi the sport snort of or a nation then and Manns Mann's hitleR game came ame was soon loon forgotten Mann Iann of course was as an amateur The first professional twirler to pitch a a. no hit came am was Borden of or the old Boston team The Chicago club was 11 his victim ami the tho tame game was as player played July 28 28 1875 Exactly a aw w week ek later later August t 4 4 1875 D 1875 1875 Devlin n of or Chicago pitched d a n hit no-hit game against as Philadelphia Here Hert Is U a 8 i record giving 1 all the no-hit no to and arid Including the tho ISSO 1880 games up year May 29 29 1875 Mann Mann lann Princeton vs Os Yale July 28 8 1875 1ST Borden Boston vs Chi Chi- cago August 4 1873 ISIS Devlin Chicago vs s Philadelphia July 4 4 ln GalvIn Calvin St. St Louis Reds vs s sI I Philadelphia July 15 IS 1876 1876 Bradley St. St Louis Bro Browns Brons ns vs 5 11 Hartford August 17 Ii 1876 St St. Louis Reds V Vi Cas Cass of or Detroit May tay 27 27 j. j 1877 Carter 1877 Carter Yale lale vs 15 Harvard Har June JUlie Z 2 RIchmond Richmond Worcester vs Chicago Jul July 28 2 Richmond Worcester vs S apri Springfield ng eld AI April prU 23 2 Welch 1880 Welch Troy vs Union col college ege l Ia May 2 24 21 Lynch 1880 Lynch National of or Wash Wash- I ington va VIf Baltimore June une S. S 1880 1 Keefe 1880 care Albany Alban v vs 5 Troy June 12 12 Richmond Worcester vs os s. s CJ J. J 1 17 18 Ward So-Ward Providence B vs reach man man no game came