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Canton Advocate, September 8, 1897
YOUNG CALLAHAN MAKES CANTON DEBUT AGAINST OILERS
Findlay Beats Watchmakers 4-1; Callahan's Box Work Solid
FINDLAY--With second place secured and the chances of catching the first-place Sandusky club becoming more remote, Canton manager scrawled the name of Charles Callahan on his line-up card and sent him out to pitch against the Oilers here in Findlay yesterday.
Callahan, a youth of seventeen, made his first appearance against the fast competition of the Buckeye League and acquitted himself fairly well. Although the Oilers scored two runs in the second and sixth innings to send him down to defeat by a 4-1 score, "Charlie" showed enough stuff to warrant a good, long look over the season's final days.
The Oilers hit safely against him eight times in eight innings, and Callahan walked three other men, but otherwise the young right-hander was sharper than one might expect. His fast ball showed speed and life, and the Oilers beat his curved stuff into the dirt again and again. Fourteen times, the Watchmaker infield retired Findlay batters on ground balls.
Callahan looked like a hitter, too, hitting a sharp single in four times at bat, one of eleven the Watchmakers managed against Scott Cox. The Cantons could not manage to put together enough strings of hits to force more than one run across, a fact that disappointed the Canton captain.
"Callahan deserved a better fate to-day," said catcher Ted Cobb. "I think he has as much on the ball as any of our other pitchers. We should have made a winner out of him to-day."
Rest assured that the Watchmakers will have another chance to do right by young Callahan before the season concludes. Manager Gilmore has said he plans to make the Canal Dover product a regular part of his pitching rotation until the season ends.
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