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Show NO-HIT GAMES j TWO IN SEASON I Charlie Robertson and Jess Barnes Shine in Heavy Hitting Year NEW YORK. Oct. 11. tUy The Associated Press.) Two no-hit games, tl e seventh and eighth in the history J of the major leagues, were the pitch-ling pitch-ling features In 1 922 baseball, a season I marked by heavy and continuous hit-Itlng. hit-Itlng. according to semi-official figures. Charlie Robertson, of the Chicago White Sox, sprang from a rooklo's lowly low-ly estate to baseball fame y turning j back the Detroit Tigers without a hit jon April 30, and Jess Barnes, the New ;York Giants' veteran, entered the hall 'of fame may 7. a week later, by pitch-in-- almost perfect ball against the Philadelphia Quakers. BARNES CONSISTENT. Robertson also added to his laurele v pitching a two-hit gam. on June I against the Boston Red Sox Barnes did not plt.-h any more SpectaOUlar games during the season, but his consistent con-sistent work was one of the biggest indlxldual factors In his team winning i the pennant and then trouncing the Ni w York Yankees In the world series 'just ended. There were two one-hit games In the i National league and none In the American, Amer-ican, but the younger organization led I in the number of two- and throe-hit games that pitchers recorded. There were 13 two-hit games in the American Amer-ican against five in the National and 16 three-hit contests In the American compaie.l to 13 in the National. ! Bill Doak, Of the St. Louis Cardinals, Cardi-nals, twirled both the one-hit games, the first on May 11 against the Giants and the se. ond on July 13 against the j Philadelphia Quakers, j Urban Faber of the Chicago White Box and Stanley Coveleskle of the Cleveland Indians each pitched three three-hit games and Van Glider, the heavy hitting moundsman of the Browns finished two three-hit games in the American leaguo's total of 16. Urbar Shocker, another Brown star, finished one threo-hlt gamo and cvorked In another with Pitcher Bayne. 1LS ONE OF EACH. Jack Qulnn, of tho Red Sox, and Charlie Robertson of the Chicago Americans were the only men In the American league to pitch both a three-hit and two-hit game Quinn accomplished tho first against the White Sox on July 26. and tho latter against the Indians on August Aug-ust 26 Tho other threo-hlt pitchers In the American league werr Ix-erett and Robertson. White Sox; Stoner, Tigers; Collins. Red Sox, and Harris. Athletics, Herman PlUotte, of tho Tigers, turm d In three two-hit games, an unusual un-usual a. ' ompliehment, and Joe Rush, the fork ball star of the Yankees, twice let the opposition down with two hits Ither two-hit pitchers in the American Amer-ican league: Bayne, B1 Louis; Robertson, White Box; oulnii and I'c-nnock of tho Red Sox, Mays and Jones. Yankees; Erlck-son. Erlck-son. Senators, and Lhle. Indians. rhS tWO-hll pitchers Of the National Na-tional league are; MoNamara, Braves; Aldrldge and Osborne, Cubs; JeSS Haines, Cardinals-who Cardinals-who also twirled one three-hit game, and Couch. Reds, also with a' threo-hlt threo-hlt game to his credit The other three-hit pitchers are: Rlxoy, Donohue, Couch. Luque and Markle, of the Reds; Shrlvcr audi Qri s of the Robins; Meadows of tho Quakers: Toney of tho Giants; Cooper and Adams of the Pirates. on- |