[Big Six]

Boston Globe, April 26, 1923

PAT O'FARRELL HITS THREE HOME RUNS
Red Sox Defeat Browns, 10-5
Nehf Wins Fifth Game of Season

ST. LOUIS--Ask almost anyone who follows the national game who the most likely player to hit three home runs in a single game would be, and the answer will be Babe Ruth. Indeed, one look at the Babe, six feet two inches of brawn, is all it takes to peg him as a home run threat.

The Babe was, of course, the first man in the history of the major leagues to hit a trio of four-baggers in a single contest, accomplishing the feat last August. Yesterday, however, Ruth watched as a teammate duplicated the trick.

Babe's vantage point was one of the best available, as he witnessed the three long balls from the on-deck circle. The man who hit them is not the physical specimen Babe is. He is four inches shorter, leaner, and although a slugger, is at least as well known as a speedster.

He is, of course, Patrick J. O'Farrell. Pat's three homers, all struck off hapless Browns starter Dana Fillingim, provided much of the impetus for the Bosox' 10-5 victory yesterday. Two of O'Farrell's clouts came with the bases empty; one occurred with one runner aboard. His final homer, struck in the ninth inning, was immediately followed by another off the bat of Ruth. Frank Frisch completed the barrage of four-baggers, a solo effort in the fifth inning.

"I have never hit three home runs in a game, not even as a boy," O'Farrell said of his feat. "I admit I was trying to hit one the last time I came up. I was lucky on that one, because I usually can't hit them when I'm trying for one, not even in batting practice."

Art Nehf pitched his least effective game of the season, allowing five runs and ten hits. "I did not pitch well, but when the guys hit that well behind me, I don't need to pitch well," he said. Nehf's victory was his fifth of the 1923 season, best in either league...