Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 250, 31 August 1918 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. SATURDAY, AUG. 31, 1918.

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TY COBB TAKES BATTING HONORS OF AMERICAN

FANS WILL WATCH BABE RUTH'S WORK

Detroit Star Has Average of .377 When He Leaves Baseball to Enter Army. CHICAGO. Aug. 31 Capt Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who this week stepped from the spotlight of baseball into the chemical division of the array, took with him the 1918 batting honors of the American league. As the Detroit star stood bowing before the falling curtain of the game, fandom realized that he had taken these first honors every year since 1912 with the exception of one season, when in 1916, Tris Speaker nosed him out. Cobb's average, according to figures released today, is 377. Hums, of Philadelphia is second, with .346, and George Sisler, the St. Louis first baseman, third, with .337. Cobb, however, did not exccll In base stealing, for Sisler, with a total of forty, leads by six over the Georgian. Chapman of Cleveland, is sandwiched

between them with thirty-six. Chapman is leading in sacrifice hitting with thirty-four, while Shean of Boston, Is

close up with thirty-three, ana :ucinnis, Shean's teammate, next, with thirty. "Dabe" Ruth, the Boston star, and Walker, of Philadelphia, remain tied for honors in home run hitting with eleven each. Boston, 1918 champion, leads the league in club fielding with

an average of .971, but is sixth in bat- j

ling wun :tM. cieveiana. me runner in thia season are too weli known to

up in the race, tops the league in bat- further comment. Now tha

fans are wondering if he will prove the home run king of the series and perhaps shine in the box besides.

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Babe 3uth.

There is one player who will draw more attention, undoubtedly, than any other individual participating in the coming world series. That man is Babe Ruth. His deadly work

with the bat and his effective pitch-

FAST MUNGIE TEAM EXPECTED TO GIVE GIANTS HARD FIGHT

The fastest visiting team to appear on the Richmond ball diamond will be here Sunday when the Muncie Valentines come to town. The games will be played at Exhibition Park and the Giants will have a hard time winning from the Muncie boys as they have been playing the "best there is" and coming out on top. Last Sunday the Richmond Giants wiped the earth up with the Piqua Coca Colas and thus proved to the Richmond fans that they could win from the Cokes. Richmond has only lost three games this season and those three are to the Farmland club. The strength of the Muncie team can only be judged by the Farmland team as that is the only team this season that both Richmond and Muncie have played against. As the fans know Richmond lost three games to Farmland but the Valentines won from Farmland. Shirk the Muncie second baseman, formerly played with the Anderson Eagles. Ellis the short stop played with the Muncie Grays. Beaty the nineteen year old wonder pitcher from Columbus is being watched by big league scouts. Williamson the catcher is also from Columbus. The lineup of the Muncie boys follows: Vandergriff, lb; Shirk, 2b; S.

Ellis, ss; Cox or Buis, 3b; Still wagon, rf ; Baker, cf ; Ellis, If; Lewis and Williamson, c; Longfellow, Shroon, and Beaty, p.

OPERA SINGER ON PROGRAM.

CAMDEN, O., Aug. 31. Cyrena VanGordan, a Camden girl, who is the leading Mezzo-Soprano of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, has consented to participate in the dedication exercises of the new court house at Eaton on September 10. Miss VanGordon is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Pccock, residing on Main street, and she was born and raised in Camden, graduating from the local high school, and in private life she is Mrs. Shirley Munns. She is at present appearing in the eastern cities in grand opera.

SHOWS PATRIOTIC EXHIBIT.

CAMDEN, O., Aug. 31. In the show window of the firm of J. Collet & Son is displayed a unique exhibit which consists of the passport issued to Jacob Colle, the senior member of the firm, when he left Germany at the age of 14; naturalization papers 1 issued to him at aton in 1956, and the certificate of induction into the U. S. Army of his grandson, Burdette E. Collet, who left Thursday for Camp Taylor, Ky., being selected as leader of Preble county's quota of thirty-one men who left that day. Mr. Collet has been in business here for nearly 60 years and i3 now 84 years of age.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE HAS SAFE EDGE IN SERIES WON

NEW YORK, Aug. 31 Regardless of the outcome of the coming World Series the lead secured in recent years by the American League teams is sufficient to hold the National League in check though the senior league standard bearers were to capture the baseball classic in the easiest possible fashion. The clash of 1918 will be the fourteenth under thj auspices of the National Commission and of the thirteen series which are now part of diamond history the American League clubs have won eight while five have been the portion of the National. The last victory by a National League team was the record performance of the Boston players in 1914, when the Braves swept the Philadelphia Athletics before them . in four straight games, which caused the eventual disruption of the famous Shibe Park baseball machine. Previous to that time the record for the shortest series was held by the Chicago Nationals of 1907. In that year the team, led by Frank Chance, defeated the Detroit Americans, four games to none, but the series required five contests, as the opening game resulted in a 3 to ? tie. But one other series developed a tie game. This occurred in the meeting of the New York Nationals and the Boston Americans in the memorable conflict of 1912. This series, which

still holds the record for number of

games, attendance and gate receipts, went full eight contests before the Boston Red Sox emerged victors. More than a quarter of a million of fans attended the games and the gate receipts were a trifle more than $400,000. Each player on the winning team received $4,024, while the losing Giants found a balm for their defeat in the fact that their end amounted to $2,566 per man. Although the American League teams hold a safe margin in series won the total in games and runs is far closer. Of the seventy-two games played in the thirteen series to date, the junior league team has won thirty-seven and the National league clubs thirty-three while two ended in ties. The lead in runs is almost as narrow for the American League teams have amassed a total of 244 in the seventy-two games to the Nationals 239.

BOXING BOUTS ON LABOR DAY

There will be two sport attraction! Labor Day afterjioon. One will b held at Exhibition Park and one al the old Athletic Park. The attractioc at Athletic Park will be a boxing shovi featuring Jack Hannibal and Lew Williams ia a ten round go. The flrsl match of the afternoon will be b tween Bud Wallace ,of Richmond and One Round Bess, the colored banture champ. As an added attraction al the Athletic Park there will be a bags me. Joe Fox is the promoter of both th boxing matches and the ball game. In the evening there will be a big dance at the Coliseum and a priz waltz and an old time cake walk. The tickets for the afternoon at tractions can be bought at Jonei Smoke House at Seventh and Mail streets.

Sixteen orphans' homes, hospital! and farm schools operated' by a Frcnct organization are receiving financial assistance from the American - Red Cross.

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tir.g with .260,

Loading batters: Cobb. Detroit, .377; Burns, Philadelphia, .346; Sisler, St. Louis, .337; Speaker, Cleveland, .321; Pipp, New York, .304; Wood, Cleveland, .303; Baker. New York, .301; Walker. Philadelphia. .29S; Ruth. Boston, .297; Demitt, St. Louis, .296. Batting honors in the National league race probably will not be decided until the final games of the season Monday, Eddie Roush, the Cincinnati star, is pressing "Zaek" Wheat, the Brooklyn veteran, for the lead, according to today's average, which includes games of Wednesday. Wheat's mark is 341 Rousli is three points behind him. There are only two members of the Chicago club, champions of the league, in the select group of .300 hitters. They are oollocher, the youthful shortstop, and Merkle. who considers his playing record of the season will forever silence those who dubbed him a "bonehead." Holloeher, with an avenge of .320, dropped into fourth place, relinquishing third to Heinie Groh, of Cincinnati. Max Carey of Pitsburg is certain to finish the race with theiving honors. He has stolen fifty-zve bases, while George Burns of New York, next in the list, has thirty-nine. Rousli is the leading sacrifice hitter, his total of thirtythree giving him a lead of five over Mellwitz. of Pittsburg. In home run hiting. Cravath of Philadelphia, tops the list with seven. Cin

cinnati ia in first place in team bating with an average of .27S, while Chicago i is second with .276 Chicago also is j second in team fielding. New York leading with .071. Leading batters: Z. Whent, Brook-1

lvn. 341; Rousli, Cincinnati. 33S: Groh,

Cincinnati. Holloeher.

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

OF THF-

Clubs Won. Lost. Pet. Chicago 82 43 .656 New York 69 51 .575 Pittsburg 64 58 .525 Cincinnati 63 60 .512 Brooklyn 55 67 .451 Philadelphia 53 66 .445 Boston .' 51 69 .425 St. Louis 51 74 .408

AMERICAN LEAGUE Clubs Won. Lost.

Boston 73 49 Cleveland 71 54 Washington 69 55 New York 59 60 Chicago 57 63 St. Louis 56 63 Detroit 52 69 Philadelphia 50 74

Pet. .599 .568 .557 .496 .475 .471 .430 .403

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GAMES TODAY National League. Cincinnati at Chicago. St. Louis at Pittsburg. Brooklyn at New York. Boston at Philadelphia.

Yesterday's Games

American League At Detroit (first game) R. H. E.

Chicago. ! Cleveland 010 000 010 2 7 1

.320; J. C. Smith. Boston. .313: Daub

ert. Brooklyn, .313: Merkle, Chicago,

.304: Burns, New York. .29G; Young,

New York, .284; Hornsby, St

Louis

GIANTS WILL PLAY ATHLETICS MONDAY

The fans of Richmond are going to get their money's worth of baseball in the next few days for on Mondav the Giants play two games with the Richmond Athletics. The first game will be played in the morning at 10 o'clock and the second at 2:45 o'clock in the afternoon. The Athletics have not played for some weeks, but they expect to win both games Monday. Hawekotte will probably pitch the first game for the Athletics and Minner the second. Hawekotte swears that he will win his game because he lost one hardluck game to the Giants and one game was tied with them. Hawekotte has been going good in the Saturday after

noon league and should hold the hardhitting Giants to a very few hits. Minner also can be counted on to hold his opponents to few runs and hits. Another reason the Athletics should win is because the Giants will probably be tired after playing two hard games Sunday afternon. The winner of the City championship will be decided when the Athletics and Giants play Monday unless a later game can be arranged between the winner and the winner of the S. A. L. pennant. The Giants already have one game toward the series, but the Athletics have a good chance to win nevertheless.

Detroit 000 000 0011 4 4 Batteries Coveleskie and O'Neill; Cunningham and Spencer. Second Game R. H. E. Cleveland 000 200 1104 6 1 Detroit 010 100 003 2 7 3 Batteries Bagby and O'Neill; C. Jones and Velle. At Washington R. H. E. New York 000 001 000 l 5 2 Washington 302 100 00 6 12 1 Batteries Finneran and Hannah; Johnson and Ainsmith.

R. H. E.

-098

-12 11 1 McAvoy;

At Boston (first game) Philadelphia... 000 000 000 Boston 233 002 20Batteries Johnson and Mays and Schang.

Second Game R. H. E. Philadelphia ... 000 100 0001 4 1 Boston 003 010 00 4 6 2 Batteries Johnson, Perry and Perkins; Mays and Schang.

National League. At Chicago R. H. E. Cincinnati 000 022 0015 11 0 Chicago 000 000 0000 4 4 Batteries Mitchell and Wingo; Walker and O'Farrell.

At Philadelphia (1st game) R. H. E. Boston 000 000 0000 7 1 Philadelphia ... 000 000 0011 7 0 Batteries Rudolph and Wagner; Oeschger and Adams. Second Game R. H. E. Boston 000 011 3218 12 0 Philadelphia ... 000 000 3003 11 4 Batteries Ragon and Wagner; Jacobs, Fortune and Adams, Devine. At New York R. H. E. Brooklyn 000 0f)0 0000 2 3 New York 000 000 0011 7 1 Batteries Coombs and Miller: Per-

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