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Show "BIG EVENTS OF 1916 I I Incidents of Baseball Season That Appear Noteworthy. Several Pitchers Performed Unusual Stunts Alexander Establishes New Whitewash Record Speaker Supplants Cobb. A compiler of the dope has counted these events as among the noteworthy things of the baseball season that has just come to its close : Four no-hit, no-run games in the big leagues three in the American and one in the National. The pitchers who performed these f elits were : Leonard of the Red Sox, against St. Louis; Foster of the Red Sox, against Washington Wash-ington ; Bush of the Athletics, against Cleveland, and Hughes of the Braves, against Pittsburgh. Grover Cleveland Alexander, the great pitcher of the Phillies, set up a new whitewash record by pitching 1G shutout games. The old mark was 13, held by Mathewson. Zach Wheat of the Brooklyn Robins made one or more safe hits in 29 consecutive con-secutive games. In the 29 games he polled a total of 45 safeties. The New York Giants won 26 consecutive con-secutive games, and, in doing so,-shattered the long-standing major league record of 1.0 straight made by Providence Provi-dence in 1884. In losing 20 straight games the Athletics. Ath-letics. tied the American league record for consecutive defeats. The Mack-men Mack-men also hung up a new mark for defeats de-feats in one season with 117 games in the lost column, against 113 registered by Washington in 1904, the worst previous record. ' The "Iron man" stunt, or pitching and winning two games in one afternoon, after-noon, was performed by four big league twirlers. They. were: Davenport Daven-port of the Browns, pitching against the Yankees ; Perrit of the Giants, against the Phillies ; Alexander of tha f Tris Speaker. Phillies, against Cincinnati, and Dem-aree Dem-aree of the Phillies, pitching against the Pirates. Outfielder Eddie Mensor, playing with the Spokane Northwestern league team, took part in 114 games and handled han-dled 239 chances without an error. Kenzle Kirkinan, outfielder of the St. Joseph team of the Western league, made 32 hits in 39 times at bat. Ty Cobb in 1913, set a record of 31 hits in 39 times up. The St. Louis Browns won 14 games in a row, the best performance in the American league this season for consecutive con-secutive games won. Every club in the American league, with the exception of the Athletics, led the race for at least one day. Cleveland, New York, Boston and Washington were up there most of the time, while the others enjoyed the privilege for shorter periods, including includ-ing ties. After leading the American league batsmen for nine years in succession Ty Cobb lost the batting championship to Tris Speaker. |