The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-28
AVERAGES OF THE TEAM
sELMA's BALL TossERS DOING
 GOOD WORK.
stouch Leads in Battery, Fender in Fielding and Bailey in the Pitching-Aggregation Hold
 ing Its Own.

The record Of the selma team up to date is gratifying to its friends and the showing is probably more consist ent than any team in the southern League. But five games are included in the following averages, as the first Nashville game in Selma last Monday was prevented by rain.
 In those i've games. the team has won three and lost two, and it would be three won but for Mack's decision in calling Vaidois out at first base, and then putting the third baseman out of
 the game. Even then the game was
 lost by a narrow margin. the home
 runs of Parrott and Kennedy winning 1t for Nashville, as Glenn was holding
 his own right along.
 The second Nashville game was ten innings, and after the first inning Lem
 Bailey shut the leaders out in nine straight innings, winning the game py
 score of to ,. Then they went on the road and won two out of three games from Little Rock in the town
 across the river from. Memphis. Se-
 christ pitched the opening game and
 won 1t by a score of 5 to 3. He pitched a good, steady game. The next game
 was the unfortunate one in which Lem
 Bailey slipped and made a wild throw on the wet grounds That was all that
 saved George Blackburn, as they nit
 him eleven times to six hits of Bailey. The game was to :. Cribbins pitched the last of the Little Rock games and won it by the score of to 4. ten hits being made of him and thirteen OH Pop for Little Rock.
 In batting the team is about holding its own. but the players are shade
 off in fielding. Stovch leads the team in batting this week with eighteen hits in his sixteen games. and an aver age of .346. Frank is next with twen- ty-one hits in sixteen games. but he | was at bat thirteen more times than | Stouch and gets an average of .32o. Al
 exander follows him with thirteen hits
 in thirteen games, and an average or | 1925. Valdois has seventeen hits in | fourteen games, an average Of .2Ss'
 while Longley's sixteen hits in sixteen
 games gives him an average Of .2sa. ! Fender has ten hits in fifteen games
 and an average of .192, while Dalrym- l pie has the same number of hits in the l same number of games, but was at bat
 seven times more than his captain and | has an average of .152. Glenn has nine hits in the fourteen games and an aV-
 craze of .1o1.
 Cribbins leads the batting of the pitching staff with five hits in six games and an average of .23s, while Bailey has three hits In four games; average, 200 secbrist and McAfee tie | with an average of .2s0 each.
 In fielding Fender still holds his great | record and leads his team with l6i chances, eight of them assists on first base. Dalrynple is next with ons er- TOT out of forty-two chances, followed | by Alexander with two errors out or l ffty-four chances. Longley is next with two errors in twenty-tnree chances followed by Valdois with four | errors in forty-fve chances. Frank | has four errors in thirty-four chances and Glenn with six errors In his thirty
 two difficult chances. Stouch's fve errors in TOT chances puts him third. | Cribbins leads the pitchers in field | ing with twenty two accepted chances Sechrist is next with six accepted
 chances. Bailey has two errors in fit- teen chances but Bailey always works
 harder in the field than any of the
 pitchers.
 Lem leads the pitching with three wins out of four gaines giving ur thiYty-two hits-an average of eight | Eame-giving but five bases on balls and striking out six men, nearly two | a game. Cribbins is next with three | wins out of six games. Glenn has one | out of two games; and Sechrist has i oTiee win V wiiTn out of .hsee games, although
 he is showing marked improvement | in his slab work.
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