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8/18/2019 Feller No Hitter
1/1
THE
CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM,
ELYRIA,
OHIO
Wednesday. April
17
M
iece Is Opening Day Featu
Rustling Thru
.
. Sports .
.
With USS DAVIES
Recrea tion Five
Is Second Half
:
A ll-C ity
Champ ;
j «rYKREXTS Recreation clinched *
ft the secoiui half
championship
,
. of the All-City
League
by triasming
uz s
Feller
After Ao- f f i f f er
Greofest
Aduevenisnr
FROM MY LATE afternoon nap just in time to
Cleveland Indians
to a no-run, n o-hit
victory over
the
Sox in the openin g game of the 1940 American League
Lturallv.
I couldn't believe my ears.
thought that popped into my head was: "That guy Graney
"uts
" But that thought soon vanished for I remembered having
this past Winter and
found
him to be a most
sensible
sort of
versed
in the
game
of baseball.
Therefore
it
wouldn
t oe
to fool
his public by . -
an
untruthful
statement over the emer waves. But I st-li
doubts I had were dispelled a few minutes
later,
nowever. ween
report came from Harry
Wismer. I
knew then that
21-year-ola
actually entered baseball's hall of fame.
"ame as anyone must know is a rarity
ineeeo.
in
baseball.
on the opening day of the season
makes
the feat all the
and its author all the greater. Such a feat *-
we
-f- ;
stupendous,
colossal
will
(
0
°
i°
J that Abner
Doubleday turned over in
nis
grave. i
during
his less
than four full years
in the
major leagues,
has *
Tot of things and contributed plenty toward making
basebal
but hell never do anything that will approach his feat of yes-
1
the
Gardner Jewelers
in
two
of
1 three games of
their
match last
evening at
Wykrent's
Recreation. \
The Recreation team has now won
. 31
games
and
lost
11 and
is
out of
reach of its nearest opponent, the
. Gardner Jewelers who
have
won
t
27 and lost 15.
Each
team has one
'
loop match
remaining
on its sched-
'
ule.
. To Roll Federal Store
As a
result
of winni ng the
second
•
half champion Federal Store rn the
roll-off
for the season championship.
Date of the match
will
be an-
nounced
later.
High team in last
night's
matches
was the Electro Alloys
with
a total
of
2813-
High individual honors ; f
on
October 2.
1938
the Iowa farm lad established a major
bv striking
out 18 Detroit
Tigers.
the major league mark for most strikeouts in two
consecu-
three one-hit games.
out six
straight
batsmen in the October 2. 193S
;*-
American League in strikeouts in both 1938 ana 1939
of
these
are
small
in comparison to what he did yesterday-
Just Ahead
SEASOX
IS
JTCST
AHEAD FOR
The
weather-
\Attendance Figures
:
:For Opening Day •
•\MEKICAX LEAGUE ;
j Boston at Washington 31000
J
*V ew York at
Philadelphia
20187
I
;5t. Louis at Detroit - 43417;
I
Cleveland
at
Chicago
ZVATIOXAL
LEAGUE
•Chicago
at Cincinnati
34342;
ith
largest in
Cincinnati his-
OUOt-rVSU-' iO
JHOf. Ĵ̂ x̂ Ĵ̂ ^vr»»
î j»™»—
.
.
-
.
.smooth-faced Iowa farwboy
uith
ba^eballV
greatest
puclmij _
j
arm. Bob Keller. .. . t Las- season the clubs f
I KeHer. who ha- pitched three one-hit jrames in Ins glamor- •
KaRbaS Cly
Minneapolis.
•ous career rinallv crossed the
threshold
of the hall of fame m , ̂ j^ Louisville.
S:
Paul
H-hiea-o
vesierdav
bv pitching a no-hit
jrauie
asahirf the White
ke
e.
Columbus. Toledo, at e
iso"
"The
hKiians
won
1-0
w
Jeff Heath', .ingle and
i
I lemslevV
trsple tu ;he lourth.
j
25
First
Place Votes
1
It \va- a classic performance and
presaire*
a remarkable;
In the
pool
of
sports
Uar for
the
kingpin of
pitchers
who is
likely
to flirt «.ih **%££Cuy ̂ ̂J
; 30-trame mark . In
re-ii^enujr
Ins no-hit, no-run triumph
teller
,
fi
̂^
secon(Jsten
thi
i fanned ei"hi
and walked five. He was
in
one
jam.
An
error
b y j
fourlhs
and
one
gf-.h; Min
:Ro\
Weather'v
and two walks,
loaded
the bases in the second | two first*, eight seconds,
|uhh two
out.'
Then Keller fanned Rookie Bob Kennedy to i six^fourths. on e nft
come
throug h m:. enor. getting the
Cubs'.
The opening day sched
pitciung brilliance sparged
*" Lurls Shutout I*" C:ty at Toledo; Milw
eight
openers witnessed
by a
total "*
performing on an
|Coiumbus; Minneapolis
» t w o clubs in bo;h leagues
made
as
many as 10 hits—the lowly Browns
[getting
exactly
10 off the
Tigers
land the Pirates taking slugging
honors with
15
smacks against
the
1
Cardinals.
But for Feller's magnificent
ei-
I fort
Ol
Mose Grove would have
Whit
iv f ive hits- The Bees tried
nc
'
Wyatt but h« teâare a. -̂̂ -̂ --̂
"-Meager™DuVotht
-«iulfseasons
as
pilot
i
enlivened
th e game by drawing a i
— . . Q
A
i
reELiou f i i u L i c , s^ » _ t j j - i x A £ » M . W * » — • - — „
r
,™
\ Olympics copoed
two
from
Kamil- I
' ' Speed Kings.
A third match
;
4 38
3 6 1
ton
rolled"
s="
Valerius Rovers
take
j Conn
Offered $15,000
two from Volfc Flyers.
r
Tjflp Defense
I High team was the Olympics with "
lc
3
-
44
I 2 542
High individual
was
Andy i
—
55
' G'owiski of the Banners with
611
•
CLEVELAND.
O_ April 1. —
4.19
4 58 i
won
the laurel wreath. The 40-
vear -old
G:u\
e. starting his
16th
major league campaign. Eet tne
, Senators down wiin
two
infield hits
j before President Roosevelt arid
31000
farts
in Was hington as the
• Red Sox triumphed. 1-0
Helps Win Own Game
Grove himself had a no-hitter
• until the eighth when Cecil Travis
j broke the
spell
by singling off J:m
'Tabor's
shins
He
helped win his
own game
with
a single off second-
b a s e in a n Bloodworths glove.
Bloochvorth recovered the
bail
but
j Rick
Ferrell
dropped his throw at
:
the
plate
and
Doerr scored. |
The Yanks, minus the services of
>
\ the
great
Dimaggio
went down
to '
defeat in a I0-inning hurling battle '
j between Red Ruffing and Chubby '
Dear, of the Athletics,
each
allow-
i ing s ix hits. But for an
error
by .
i 345000 Benny McCoy. Dean would
• have
won in
regulation, tune.
1-0.'
,. . - , .
_.^_ .„«.= - * ~ •- _
'
Dean's fly with the bases loaded
Manager
Oscar
Vitt of
the
Cleveland Indians puts
his
official o. k
wo
f
Or
{he A's 2-1 j
on
the
dav's play
by
giving young
Bob
Feller. Cleveland's
ace
hurier.
a
Coffman Beats Old Mates
|
great big
" h u g .
after Feller mace
baseball history
by pitchtng a
no-hit.
^
George Coffman.
ex-Tiger,
made j
no-run gaine"against the Chicago White Sox
in
Chicago yesterday, . his old mates jump through hoops .
Below.
the~2I-yesr-old strikeout champion
is
shown delivering
the j
as
the
Browns beat
Detroit.
J>-1.
i
ball
as he did
vesterdav in whiiewasning
tie
Paie Hose
without a
hit. ;
Coffman
gave
up
or.ly sever, hits.
(Acme Telecfaotos; j blanking the -i
igers
after the first. ,
——
i Buck Newsom walked home what
proved to be the winning tally with
the bases loaded in the fifth
JEWELERS PRACTICE.
Vic Silver's Jewelers p
day, tomorrow
and Frid
American Lace diamond a
each day. A'I mernoers of
are asked to take notice
hr.e
(.cross it and you re out of
the
game*
on Umpire Bill Klem and
getting away with
it
The
Pirates,
making their defcy*.
under
Frankie Frisch slammed
out
15 hits to beat the Cardinals . 6-4
Ray
Blades, xvho dotes
on
juggling
hs"
pitcheri.
had four
hurlers
in
action trying to stop the
Pirates.
Bob Klinger had the Cards blanked
until
the sixth when they put
across
a
four-run
rally.
Dick Lan-
ahan moppet
up. allowing
only
one
,
hit in the last
three innings.
who
blinded
tne
White
O i
his sinoke
and
achieved
YESTERDAY'S HERO — Bob
no-hit,
no run game o
Feller.
Cleveland
speedball
king,
d ay in modern history-
CLEANERS DRILL.
The Standard Cleaner
team will practice today
cade Park at
5:30.
All
asked to report.
MELVIN LEROY HARDER
15.
1909
at Beemer. Neb.
601-
Weight.
183
Brown eyes and hair. Throws and bats
Nationality—Bohemian-German.
December 27 1932
Reds Win First
Opening
Contest
Club
Cleveland
Cleveland
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