Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — STRUCK OUT FOUR MEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STRUCK OUT FOUR MEN

Guy Morton of Cleveland Whiffed Quartet in One Inning. i . *■ ■ u 4 — 1 * Unusual Stunt Was Performed In Game With Athletic#—“Willie Mitchell Claims He Fanned Seven Batsmen in Same Inning. Guy Morton of the Indians was the only major-league pitcher of 1916 to strike out four men in one inning. The Alabama Arrow performed this unusual feat in the sixth frame of the game of June 11 against the Athletics, his victims being Lawton Witt, Charley Pick, Napoleon Lajoie and Jack Melnnis. Witt reached first becudse his third strike also was a wild pitch. To strike out four men in one session is not a novelty for a major-league pitcher, though the occurrence does not often crop up. Willie Mitchell, who started the season an Indian and finished it a Tiger, says he once fanned seven men in one chapter, his opponents meanwhile gathering four runs. -He-daims to have done this in 1909 for San Antonio against* Houston. Willie says his catcher that day was Dolly Starke, one time Superba shortstop. Mitchell says Dolly broke the record for passed balls and that this was the reason he was able to fan seven. The day Morton had the Athletics so thoroughly on his staff only 3 of the 13 Mackmen who batted against him escaped being whiffed. They were Reuben Oldring an(| Billy, Meyer, who were in the controversy from start to finish, and Bill Stellbauer, who ripped off a single when he batted for Jack Nabors in the eighth. Strunk fanned three times, Lajoie and Witt each fanned twice and Melnnis, Walsli, Myers, Nabors, Pick and Schang each fanned once. Denton Young OCy I.) probably performed a feat unequaled by anyone when on April 9, 1900, pitching for tht

Cardinals against the Pirates, he scattered his nine strikeouts so that one came in every inning. The feat of striking out three men in one inning was accomplished 27 times "ttt'tM'“American league last season, men who did it more than once being Claude Williams, Urban Faber, Willie Mitchell and Walter Johnson. The first named hud three such performnncps - so Tiis~ credit, the others eacS two. ' ——

Guy Morton.