Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1911 — PITCHER SMASHES STRIKE OUT RECORD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PITCHER SMASHES STRIKE OUT RECORD

Says the sporting editor of the St. Paul Dispatch: "We are in receipt of a letter from John B. Foster, editor of the Spalding baseball publications, in which he shows us where we were wrong when we announced that Marty O’Toole had tied up Rube Waddell’s strikeout record of seventeen. Mr. Foster points out that Waddell’s mark was sixteen, and that in modem baseball no pitcher in Class A or big league baseball has ever gone higher than seventeen. Mr. Foster is a recognised authority on the national pas-

time, and when he Bays that O’Toole holds the record with his seventeen "whiffs’’ we are ready to believe him. Mr. Foster first informed F. H. Macauley, manager of the St. Paul Spalding store, that in Quoting the record as given in the Moreland book we were wrong, and then he followed up with a letter to us, informing us that the official scores pf that game in which Waddell established his mark gave Rube credit for sixteen strikeouts. That settles it—O’Toole is king.’’

Martin O'Toole, Sensatlonal St. Paul Twirler.