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Show CICOTTE'S NO-HIT GAME IS RECORD Eddie Clcotte's no-hit, no-run game against the St Louis Browns was the first of the 1917 season, and also the earliest ever pitched in either major league. April 1 1 is six days earlier than the only other no-hit championship game registered by an American league curv-cr. curv-cr. That pitching immortal, t'he late Addie Joss of Cleveland, turned in a no-hit game against the White Sox on April 20. 1910. This is the only other no-hit feat in the Johnson league accredited ac-credited to the month of April. The National league boasts of two no-hit games twirled during tho month of April. Incidentally, they both were registered on the samo dav, April 22, 1898 Hughes for Baltimore, against Boston, and Breltensloin, for the Red tmuuBLLuum li-.i.i,, ri m- ...... rr-L against Pittsburg, bagged these early hall-of-fame conquests nn |