Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — Tigers Hardest Club In Majors to Blank [ARTICLE]

Tigers Hardest Club In Majors to Blank

Detroit Tigers are the champion whitewash avolders of the country at the present time. Jennings' men only have kept away from the plate in five games this year. The Phillies, who lead the National league in escaping calcimlnlngs, have run into eleven runless beatings. The teams easiest to whitewash this year have been Philadelphia and Washington in the American and Chicago in the National. On no less than twenty occasions have the Cubs been kept away from the plate. Cincinnati, New York and Pittsburgh each have been shut out fifteen times; St. Louis, fourteen; Brooklyn and Boston, thirteen. The clans of Mack and Griffith each have been blanked fifteen times, the records of the other teams being as follows: Cleveland, fourteen; St. Louis, twelve; New York and Boston, nine; Chicago, seven.