Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1926-10-22 | Page 6 | White Shirts of Fans Cause of Good Hurling

White Shirts of Fans Cause of Good Hurling "Sheriff" John Blake of the Chicago Chi-cago Cubs recently pitched a one-hit game against the Cardinals in St. Louis. He does not attribute it to his hook or his control. White shirts are the secret, says Blake. "The centerlield bleachers were jammed with fans in their shirt .sleeves, and they made a solid white background for the ball wdien it came toward the plate. All I had to do was keep the ball high, so it would come out of those shirts, and the batters bat-ters couldn't see it half the time until it was past them. "I've pitched dozens of better ball games than that one and got beat. Don't think Alexander wasn't using those white shirts, either. He was keeping the ball high and inside, "I wasn't figuring on how many hits, I didn't think about it. But I never knew a pitcher who worked a no-hit game who had any luck afterward, so I'm not worrying about Southworth's hit '