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Show RUTH SETS NEW MARK FOR SERIES HEAVER Babe Ruth, the massive southpaw and bitter extraordinary of tho Red Sox, established a new record for pitching consecutive runless innings in world's series games. Christy Mathewson, In 1905, pitched three nine-inning games against the Athletics without being scored upon. His noxt appearance In a world's series ser-ies was the opening battlo against the Athletics in 1911. Tho Mackmen scored scor-ed the second inning. This gave Matty a record of twenty-eight runless innings. in-nings. By holding the Cubs runless Monday for seven frames, Ruth beat Matty's record by ono inning. In 191C, pitching against the Dodgers, Ruth, after being scored upon in the first inning, twirled thirteen runless innings. In the opening open-ing game ot the past series, Babe pitched nine moro runless innings, these, with the seven Monday, gave him a total of twenty-nine consecutive scoreless Innings. nn '. |