Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1918 — CANADIANS PERFORM MOST UNUSUAL FEAT [ARTICLE]

CANADIANS PERFORM MOST UNUSUAL FEAT

Seventeen Players Out on Same Number of Pitched Balls. Remarkable Game Played at Braneshott, England, by Soldier Teams - —Some of Men Had Experience in United States. • Sergeant E. L. Sweetman, a member of a Canadian detachment now in camp at Bramshott, England, writes of a remarkable game of ball played by two Canadian soldier teams some time backend submits it as a record never equaled in baseball. The feat was the retiring of no less than 17 batters on the same number of pitched balls. The tcums playing were made up from the Twentieth and Thirteenth Canadian reserves and Included several players in the States and in Canada. The details of the unusual series <rf outs are thus given by Sweetman: “Twentieth reserves went to bat in the first half of the fifth Inning. Parlee, first man to bat, grounded out. pitcher to first. O’Regan filed out to second baseman. Craft grounded out, shott to first. “Second half of fifth, Thirteenth reserves batting: Campbell filed out to third base. Crowley grounded out. third to first. Massey was out, short to first / “Sixth inning, Twentieth batting: Garnett filed out to third. Hatfield grounded out, second to first Heyck out, short to first. “Second half of sixth: Ferguson out. pitcher to first. Lavelle out, on a fly to second. Donohue out, pitcher to first. “Seventh inning: Arsenaut, O’Keefe and Duke In turn grounded out, second to first. “Second half of seventh inning: Thom out, short to first. Green out to catcher on foul. The next man singled and the remarkable run was over, after 17 batters had hit the first ball pitched in turn and each had been put out.” ’ Sweetman, writing of the strange record, says: “I never saw the like of it and probably never will again. Of course the pitchers, Parlee and Ferguson, had the batters at their mercy, as the score of the game, which waa 2 to 2 in ten innings, will indicate, but that it took some classy pitching !• shown by the fact that we had some good men in the game. ‘•Ferguson, who pitched for thd Twentieth reserves, I believe, played in the New England league and had a tryout with Providence in the International. He is the best man in the Camp league here. Massey was In the United States army for a time. Burns had a tryout with Minneapolis several years ago. Roberts played in the New York State league and In the New England league. Harris played for Akron and Toledo. Donohue played with Bridgeport and also won fame as a boxer under, the name of ‘Kid McAuliffe.’ “All of these men of the Twentieth, however, were not in the game I write about, because some of them have gone across to France, or have been sent back to Canada."