Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 269, 22 September 1917 — Page 5

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, SEPT. 22, 1917

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Local Sport News at a Glance

COBB'S BATTING LEAD IS BEING CUT BY SPEAKER

Only Fourteen Points Separates American League Stalwarts. CHICAGO, Sept. 22, Tris Speaker Is cutting down Ty Cobb's batting lead ;in the American league. Unofficial averages released today show only fourteen points separating them as compared with 21 a week ago. Cobb is batting .373 and Speaker, the 1916 champion. .359. The averages include games of Wednesday. Bush, the Detroit shortstop, continues to draw away from Cobb in scoring. He has 103 runs to his credit, a lead of five over the Georgian. Bobby Roth of Cleveland added three more stolen bases to his total, bringing it up to forty-eight. Chapman, his teammate, is pressing him with forty-two and is far. in the lead in sacrifice hitting with - sixty-five. Pipp of New York, took" the lead in home run hitting with 9. Detroit remains out In front in team batting with 258.

Leading batters who have played in half of their club's games: Cobb, Detroit, 373; Speaker, Cleveland, 359; Sisler, St. Louis, S4T; Felsch, Chicago 310; Veach, Detroit 306: Rice. Washington 306; Harris.

Cleveland 304; Mclnnis, Philadelphia 301; Jackson, Chicago, 299; Chapman, Cleveland' 298. Leading pitchers participating in thirty-two or more games, rated according to earned runs per game:

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Cicotte, Chicago 47 Faber, Chicago . . 37 S. CoveleskieCleve 43 Leonard, Boston . . 34 Ruth. Boston ....... 37 Ayers, Washington.. 35 Mays, Boston ...... 32 Bagby, Cleveland 46 Russell, Chicago .....34

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How Quakers Pitched and Fielded

Official pitching and fielding averages for the 1917 season of the Central league were released Saturday by President Stahlhefer, of the Central circuit. Following 13 the showing made by the Quakers during the season and from the igures may be gained some reason why the Quakers were not champions. Official pitching averages of Quaker slabmen:

G. LP. A.B. H. R. BR SO. WP. W. L. TO. F Pet. Stoltz ....... 7 137 161 39 20 . 8 12 1 2 2 3 1 .500 Ainsworth . . 33 254 1032 124 118 51 120 3 13 17 5 5 .433 Coachman ... 26 177 726 182 78 42 62 0 9 12 6 3 .429 Young....... 2S 187 767 181 89 65 69 5 7 10 6 8 .412 Froinholz, x.. 23 153 616 126 51 59 75 1 6 9 6 6 .400 Gilbert ...... 21 126 560 125 64 42 52 1 6 11 5 5 .353 Hart .. .. 8 59 235 52 20 10 27 1 2 6 3 2 .250 Pillett . 12 65 275 65 33 22 22 2 1 5 5 2 .167 Quaker f elding averages: G. P.O. A. E. P.B. Pet. Hauser catcher .. ! 100 458 149 14 4 .977 Gygli, first baseman 106 1022 70 20 .983 Lafayette, first baseman 19 171 11 6. .. .968 Evers, second baseman ...108 306 306 35 .946 Outfielders: c. Young j. 15 18 0 0 .. 1.000 Schick 40 81 4 2 .. .977 Breaux 92 191 12 9 .. .956 Wilcox 14 17 2 1 .. .950 Jantzen ... 114 195 7 11 ... .948 Crouch . 93 122 10 8 .. .943 Gleich ... 80 177 18 12 ... .942 Coveleskie,, . . . 80 154 8 11 .. .937 Donelson . 30 65 6 5 .. .934 Donica 25 45 4 3 .. .923 Donahue , 13 ,19 1 2 .. .902 Bossoloni 10 ' 10 0 4 .. .714 Rapp, shortstop 74 169 206 28 . . .931 J. Kelly, shortstop 39 61 94 25 .. .861 Donica, third baseman 17 24 35 , 4 . ,937 J. Kelly, third baseman 23 22 42 5 .. .928 Reil'ley, Ihird baseman 36 36 71 9 V. .922 Rapp, third baseman ............. 39 64 97 19 .. .894 Club fielding 117 3089 1533 249 .. .949

' The annual Y. M. C. A. dormitory supper will be held Monday evening in the banquet room of the Y. M. C. A. L. M. Feeger will be the speaker of the evening. The committee in charge of the affair announces that the supper is to be a "regular feed."

In the Majors

National League. At Pittsburgh R. H. E. New York ......101 001 0003 12 0 Pittsburgh . . 000 000 0011 5 0 Benton, Anderson and McCarty; Steele and Schmidt.

At Chicago R. H. E. Philadelphia ....200 000 020 i 8 3 Chicago 002 000 000 2 8 3 Alexander and Killefer; Douglas and Dillhoefer.

American League. At Boston R. H. E. Chicago .000 100 000 12 8 0 Boston ... 000 000 100 01 5 1 Faber and Schalk; Leonard and Thomas.

In the National league, Roush of Cincinnati, with an average of 342 has an eighteen point lead over Roger Hornsby of St. Louis who is second. Three members of the New York club

j.auir. uurns ana vyunon are among i

!n ten leading battersr Kauff is third with 308. Burns of New York, the leading Ecorer. brought his total to ninety-nine and Carey of Pittsburgh increased his mark in base stealing to , forty-five. The record of 12 home runs hang up by Cravath of Philadelphia, remains

out of danger. Deal of Chicago, continues to show the way to the sacrifice hitters with twenty-eight. Cincinnati, leading in team batUng, has an average of 265. The averages Include games of "Wednesday. Leading batters who have p!ayed In half their club's games: Roush, Cincinnati 342; Hornsby, St Louis 324'; Kauff, New York 308; Groh, Cincinnati 305; Burns. New York 302; Carey, Pittsburgh 297; Cruise, St Louis 296; Wilhoit, New York 296; Jack Smith. St. Louis, 295; Wheat Brooklyn 295;. Leading, pitchers participating in thirty-one or more games rated according to earned runs per game: G. W. L. ER. Anderson, New York 34 9 8 1.67 Alexander. Phila . . - 41 27 12 1.76 Schupp, New York.. 32 20 7 1.85 Perritt, New York..., 32 15, 7 1.85 Cheney, Brooklyn . . .' 31 "8 10 2.07 Sallee, New York ... 31 18 6 2.17 Vaughn, Chicago ... 40 23 13 2.20 Schneider, CincinnaU 42 18 17 2.27 Toney, Cincinnati... 40 24 15 2.32 Packard, St. Louis. . . 34 9 5 2.39

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MIAMI'S HOLDING TWO DATES OPEN

OXFORD, O., Sept. 22. It has beet definitely settled that Earlbam college will not open the football season with Miami university this year, as per schedule. The game was to have been played here Saturday, September, 29, but Earlham, opening on September 24, will not be ready to play. Miami is trying hard to arrange a game with Earlham later, in the season, and has suggested October 20, to which suggestion Earlham has not

yet responded. This, or November 24. are the only open dates Miami has on

its schedule. -

This change in program will' make Miami's opening game come on Satur

day, October 6, with Ohio Northern university.

At New York R. H. E. St Louis ...000 004 1016 11 3 New York ......200 020 32x 9 10 2 Sothoron and Severeid ; , Mogridge and Ruel.

At Philadelphia R. H. E. Cleveland .......000 000 0505 10 1 Philadelphia . . ..000 102 0003 10 4 Morton, Coumbs and Billings; Schauer, Bush and McAvoy. At Washington R. H E. Detroit ..400 020 1007 10 1 Washington 000 000 010 1 6 3 Boland and Stanage; Harper, Craft and Gharrity and Ainsmith.

Today the South has invested in

777 cotton mills, with their 9,200,000 spindles, $225,000,000, as against

$21,000,000 25 years ago.

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