Show Icy YOUNGS YOUNG'S MARK MARKIs I II I IS NUT YET BEATEN Denton T Pitched 23 Innings of Hitless Ball Ballin Ballin in 1904 I I Tom Hughes of the Boston Nationals recently pulled off a nice stunt when I he worked ed In sixteen consecutive in innings innings without allowing a base hit to toI tobe tobe I be made off his delivery dellver but it is hardly hardly hard hard- ly big enough to be a major league record although many papers published the feat as belr best beat in this line Une There are many records in ba baseball which have the performance of Long I Tom faded In n minor leagues the mark markot I of ot pitching sixteen consecutive innings o ot ball baIl Is by no means common but it has been accomplished on a dozen I or more occasions In the majors the thereal thereal thereal real holder of this tillS record is no Jess ess a personage than the Hon Den Denton ton Tecum ceh Young of oC bless blessed d memory Mr Young better known as Cy Tecum-I Tecum Is the holder of ot several other records in unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual feats in the pitching line It was back in April 1904 that Young proceeded to shatter all figures in this line and before he got through he had I. I created a new record in hurling hitless ball l and one which I stands today clean clean- cut and g without r 10 a s spot tin or blemish s and d I without a doubt the greatest piece of pitching the game ever witnessed On April 30 against the Washington I team Young took tool Winters Winter's place in the third inning no one out and pitched out the game retiring the next twenty twenty- one batsmen in order Youngs Young's next game took tool place May Ia 5 against the Athletics in the days when Connie Mack Macit sported a real ball club Cy pitched the best game of his long and honorable career that day and retired twenty-seven twenty of those famous of Mack lack in lii a row In n a game ame against Detroit on May 11 Denton T. T pitched his famous fifteen Inning 1 to 0 game aW against the Tigers and in the first seven Innings Young set setI setI I them down without a base hit lilt I This would give Cy twenty-three twenty Innings in inI innings In- In I flings of hitless ball or in other words as far tar as the records show sixty eight batsmen stepped to 10 the plate and were retired in succession In that same pe period period pe- pe riotS the bi big Ohioan pitched forty-eight forty consecutive innings wherein his Isis opponents failed to get a run across the plate After his lots great no hit no run game ame against the Athletics he pitched fifteen Innings I of f ball hall as mentioned against the I I Tigers with Ed Killian o opposing ling himi him i i It was a l battle royal and the clever Killian met defeat by a score of 1 I to 0 O. O Just rust one pitcher 1 in the history of baseball that I is a II hurler who was WorkIng workIng work work- Ing in a league of recognized standing and anti lass class Is credited with pitching two com complete ete games gaines in succession wherein the opposing batsmen failed to register a base bale hit Athe A big pitcher sailing under the name nania of G Gene G-en iA Wright who hurled for for the Dayton Dayto m club of the stern 1 tern as as- as of that season hack back I pitched In 1991 1901 on S I 1 a not hit run game Jame against Columbus lIe this feat eat isy by up UI turning the tho I name flame t trick J I against the Grand Rapids team 4 on Sep pAddle p- p I Addle Joss Joss and George eorge Mullen ullen made their respective respect reputations in n th that t league WrIght and Joss ad w Wre nere signed e iy IW the Cleveland team and Mullen was as asIn taken over b by the Detroit club W Wright I t In spite or of Isis his brilliant record record I In the Western association didn't hold hod a candle tise to he Joss gf big league and Mullen when en Under fire by 6 |