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Show CANADIANS PERFORM MOST UNUSUAL FEAT Seventeen Players Out on Same Number of Pitched Balls. Remarkable Game Played at Bram-shott, Bram-shott, England, by Soldier' Teams Some of Men Had Experience Experi-ence in United States. Sergeant E. L. Sweetman, a member of a Canadian detachment now in camp at Bramshott, England, writes of a remarkable re-markable game of ball played by two Canadian soldier teams some time back and submits it as a record never equaled in baseball. The feat was the retiring of no less than 17 batters on the same number of pitched balls. The tennis playing were made up from the Twentieth and Thirteenth Canadian reserves re-serves and included several players in the States and in Canada. The details of the unusual series of outs are thus given by Sweetman : "Twentieth reserves went to bat In the first half of the fifth inning. Par-lee, Par-lee, first man to bat, grounded out, pitcher to first. O'Regan flied out to second baseman. Craft grounded out, short to first. "Second half of fifth, Thirteenth reserves re-serves batting: Campbell flied out to third base. Crowley grounded out, third to first. Massey was out, short to first. "Sixth inning, Twentieth batting: Garnett flied out to third. Hatfield grounded out, second to first. Heyck out, short to first. "Second half of sixth: Ferguson out, pitcher to first. Lavelle out, on a fly to second. Donohue out, pitcher to first. "Seventh inning : Arsenaut, O'Keefe and Duke in turn grounded out, second to first. "Second half of seventh inning: Thorn out, short to first. Green out to catcher on foul. The next man singled and the remarkable run was over, after 17 batters had hit the first ball pitched in turn and each had been put out." Sweetman, writing of the strange record, says: "I never saw the like of it and probably never will again. Of course the pitchers, Parlee and Ferguson, Fer-guson, had the batters at their mercy, as the score of the game, which was 2 to 2 in ten innings, will indicate, but that it took some classy pitching is shown by the fact that we had some good men in the game. "Ferguson, who pitched for the Twentieth reserves, I believe, played in the New England league and had a tryout with Providence in the International. Interna-tional. He is the best man in the Camp league here. Massey was in the United States army for a time. Burns had a tryout with Minneapolis several years ago. Roberts played in the New York State league and in the New England league. Harris played for Airon and Toledo. Donohue played with Bridgeport and also won fame aa a boxer under the name of 'Kid Me-Auliffe.' Me-Auliffe.' "All of these men of the Twentieth, however, were not in the game I write about, because some of them have gone across to France, or have been sent back to Canada." |