St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-19
The FIGURES FOR IT.
Secretary Roche Makes Up
Tables Showing western
Association Records.
Works Leads the Batting,
but He Appeared in Only
Ten Games.
Wcrrick, Foster and Hoover
Really Did the Best
Willow Work.
Kansas City Leads in the
Batting and Milwaukee
in the Fielding.

Secretary Roc he, of the Western as
sociation, has complied the most COM
plete set of tables ever made by an Off
Ger of the organization. In addition to
the club aid individual batting ana
fielding records. there is shown the
work of the eight clubs in the twenty
eight series of games played, the num-
Der of games won and lost by each
pitcher to each club in the association.
ana the long hits of all players. No
player is given a record who has not
played in ten games. Works, of Oma-
ha, leads the association in batting,
with percentage of 1915: Seibel. " er-
rick, Foster, Eiteljorg and O'Brien, of
Denver, following in the order named.
They all have averages above .3i2. AS
Works played in only ten games, and
the others, with the exception of
Foster, in thirty or less, the bat
ting honors OF the association should 20
to Foster. 1t is question, however, if
his record is as good as that of William
Ho yer. the hard-hitting right fielder of
Kansas City. Foster played in 81 games
and has an average of .346, while
Hoover's average for 116 games is 1886.
Minnehan is very close to Hoover, and
has record of 17S safe hits. the largest
number made during the season. Mill
nehan also shares the sacrifice hitting
honOrS with Brosnan. of Sioux City,
each having total of 81. Manning pur-
Joined 90 bases. and ranks as the best
base runner. StearnS is second with q
record of so. Daryniple stole 79
and McGone. of Denver, IA bases.
Elmer Smith was the best run-getter.
he scoring l2S times to Manning's 124,
and Shoch and Carrol's 123. In long
hitting Carroll leads in home runs, with
81 to his cred w. cover in three base
hits (2D, and Carpenter in twObase
hits (24).
The Rest Eating Nine
would be: Gunson, c.. Seibel, D..
O'Brien. b., McClelland, 3D., Werrick,
3D., Walsh, S. S., Elmer Smith, f.,
Works. c. f., and W. Hoover, +. f. The
best fielding team would be: D0nahue,
e., Widner, p., Stearns, O'Brien (St.
Paul., and Miller on the bases; Walsh
at short and Brimblec0mb, Foster and
Phalen in the outfield. Others may
have better fielding records in one or
two instances than those mentioned,
but they are not players who have
played the positions regularly. In the
pitchers record is shown all work done
while in the box. The baSe-hit average
is the percentage of safe hits to times
at the bat. The other percentages are
the averages per game. Duke
leads the thirty-five who have
played In the ten games req
uisite to give them a record. His
average OF 0.S1 earned runs per game
will probably not be equaled by any
pitcher in the country. His percent
age of hits to times at the bat is only
exceeded by Martin. who pitched in nut
ten games to Dukes thirty-eight.
Dukes record of strike-outs is some
thing remarkable. Three hundred and
eight men failed to connect with the
ball, an average of $40 per game. He
was, however, frightfully wild, giving
155 men their bases on balls, hitting
seventeen and having seventy-three
wild pitches. The record of games
won and lost, which precedes the aver.
age, is, of course, subject to change by
the boaro of directors. The records
and averages are:
Record of the Association.