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Show NEITHER SIDE MADE HIT IN NINE INNINGS Herrmann Tells of Battle Between Be-tween Toney and Vaughn. "During my long baseball career," says August Herrmann, "I have had the good fortune to see several hltlesa games. Some of them were real masterpieces mas-terpieces of the pitching art, and others only became hltless games after the scorers had revised them and converted hits Into errors. The one game of all, however, the one game that will always stand out foremost fore-most In my memory, was the doubly hitles3 performance In Chicago, when Fred Toney bested Jim Vaughn. That game never had a precedent, as far as I have been able to discover from the records or from the memories of old time fans, nitless games have often happened, but never before or since have two pitchers gone through nine innings without a safety being registered on either side. On that great occasion, both Vaughn and Toney finished their full nine Innings In-nings without a hit being marked up against either man. Toney continued his wonderful work In the tenth, a magnificent catch In deep left by Manuel Cueto, the little Cuban, saving him from having at least a two-bagger recorded off his delivery. But the Beds finally got to Vaughn; his record was shattered In the tenth, and Toney carried off the honors. That game was ne plus ultra ; the one greatest of all pitching battles; there never was one like It in the past." |