Show Dixie Hurls Perfect Hit No-Hit Boy Shutout 1 To Earn Berth With St. St Louis Browns I Dixie has produced another miracle pitcher for the majors Tom Torn Rogers is his name and the giant who recently hurled a no hit to no base triumph over will Chattanooga soon be leaving the Nashville Volunteers to enroll with Fielder Jones' Jones St. St Louis Browns With Rogers In the Brown fold Jones JonE's will boast of two iron men men Dave Dave Davenport Davenport Dayenport Dav Day now wearing this title alone Int Inthe in inthe t the e Mound City camp From the very start of the present campaign Rogers has hurled winning ball and his record record record rec rec- ord now reads eighteen victories and eight defeats The big boy says he works best when assigned to the mound every third day I. I Gallatin Tenn laid claim to te only I one diamond celebrity Hub celebrity Hub Perdue Perdue- prior to Rogers' Rogers advent in spangles and now that the Gallatin Squash has passed from the exclusive set it will willbe willbe be up to Rogers to keep the town on the map The Nashville strong boy began his baseball career in 1913 with Henderson Hender Render son in the Kitty league a class D or or- or From the start he exhibIted exhibited exhibited flashes of big league class After finishing the 1913 1013 grind Rogers moved on to Nashville I Manager Bill Schwartz saw in the gangling country youth the makings II of a star but Tom needed more sea sea- tW I TOM q I so he was shipped back to toI Clarl Clarksville Tenn in the Kitty league I Tiring of the grind there ther in mid mid- season he lie asked Schwartz to pick another another another an an- other berth for him and this time the future great was assigned to Talladega Talladega Talladega Talla- Talla dega Ala in the Georgia-Alabama Georgia circuit The start of the 1915 season found Rogers again with the Volunteers He lie HeWon Hewon won fourteen and lost nineteen engagements engagements engagements en en- last year but errors behInd behind behind be be- hind him accounted for a majority of his defeats Rogers is 23 years of age married weighs pounds Is 6 feet 1 inch tall and hats bats and and throws right handed I |