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Guy Tilton Once Pitched A Nineteen Inning GannBy NANCY TIMMINS(This is the fourth in h set les of articles in The Herald on baseball in the early part of the century).Guy Tilton, star pitcher for the Delphos nine during the twenties, was known as the man with the ten cent arm and the million dollar head.Tilton himself says the phrase was correct He says he didn't have a natural talent for pitch inc. but he could place the ball wherever he wanted it to roOne out-of-town playei once said of Tilton. You can hit those curved balls of his f»o miles an hour, but only down the third base lineTilton always followed the adi ice of Addy Joss, a pitcher who wrote a column for younc pitchers in the Cleveland Press.‘■That column was my bihie.” says Tilton.Tilton pitched the ball to the batter, chancing his style to fit the abilities of the man at the plate “Now they make a bigBINGHAMTON. NY 1 PI What I’ S troops in V’iet Nam want most for Christmas is to lay their hands on an anti-Yiet Nam demonstrator, accordingfuss about change of pace used by the pitchers today. 1 was using it r0 years ago I just didn’t know what it was called.''Tilton had a trick he list'd, something like* the spitball. Whenever a new ball came into play, he would warn his catcher not to let it hit the ground. While the ball was still shiny it would behave like a spit ball, making a hop just as it reached the batter.Once in a game with Mon roeville, Ind., at Delphos, Tilton pitched a nineteen-inning game Delphos was ahead until the last of the ninth inning when the score was tied. The game continued scoreless for ten more innings until Monroeville got a runIn those days you pitched the whole game. says Mr Tilton. Today they make a big fu.vs it a pitcher goes even seven innings, but then there weren’t many pitchers around, and if you couldn’t pitch the whole game, you didn't pitch very long.warm with the joy of giving Giving a little heli to this Christmas present you were thoughtful enough to send me.GUY TILTON TODAY rf • lt;mbers his pitching days with the Delphos nine, when he pitched a nineteen inning game.Guy Tilton pitched as long as they played bull, about 20 vear.-vAnother of the great pit chi ■ was the late Glen Ditto, Ray Dittos lather Hi* was in ti m, ing for the big leagues in Milwaukee when he had to stop playing ball because of illnHorace Brown also pitched for Delphos He was famous f the spit ball. Tilton remembei that Brown used to get -o mm slippery elm on the ball, the! the players sometimes couldn : throw it, when they fielded itViet Nam Marine Writes To Santa
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Delphos Herald
Delphos, Ohio, US
Sat, Dec 18, 1965
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Bob E.
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