Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1913 — SHECKARD IS NERVY WAITER [ARTICLE]

SHECKARD IS NERVY WAITER

Goes to Bat Four Times, Getting Three Passe* and On* Strikeout In 24 Balls Pitched. - Jimmy Sheckard compiled a record in a game the other day that probably never has been duplicated and never will. He went to bat four times, had 24 balls pitched to him, still never made a*single swing and the ump bad to call every pitch. In the first with three on, Jim had two successive strikes called on him and then waited for four successive balls, forcing Huggins home with a run. In the third Jim waited for another 8-2 count and then was called out on a strike that easily was six inches on the inside. And it was the same in the sixth and seventh. The count reached 3-2, when Camnitz dished up wide ones on each occasion and Sheckard walked, getting three free passes to first, a strikeout, 2 4balls pitched to him and without swinging at a single one.