The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-21
SELMA'S CRACK TEAM
AVERAGES OF THE BASEBALL
 PLAYERS.
Marked Improvement is Shown in the Batting Record-Pender is Still Leading in the
 Fielding.

There has been marked improve ment in the batting of the Selma team since the averages of last week-the team batting average then was .175, and now it Is .269. This is very grat- flying to the friends of the team, for after all it takes stickwork to make landing. The averages given this zIioz ming are complied from tine three games Selma played with Chattanooga in Selma ending Saturday night. The three games in Chattanooga are not in- cluded, as 1t seems that nobody has the official scores of either of those games, and of course the batting and fielding averages could not be gotten at without the tabulated scores. By including those games both the battling and fielding averages of the team-individual and team-would probably be larger. but it has been inn possible to obtain them now, though it is hoped that they will be secured in time to be included in next weeks av- erages.
 Alexander has made jump of 100 points in his batting-from .29a last week to 1875 this morning-and he leads the team in batting. Valdois also gets twelve hits. but he was three times more at bat than Alexander. Stouch, who led the batting last week, ties Valdois for second place, with twelve hits, though he played the full eleven games. Longley comes next also with twelve hits, his increased number of times at bat pulling his average down. Frank has eleven hits in the eleven games followed by Bob Fender with nine hits and Dalrymple with eight. Lem Bailey leads the hit ting of the pitching staff again, get ting three hits in his two games, while Cribbens has four hits in five games, and McAfee with one hit in his one game.
 Fender again sets an example in fielding, that his team would initiate most profitably if they could, having accepted 108 difficult chances. Dalrymple again has a clean slate, having in his eleven games accepted twenty-three chances. Glenn has thir- ty-five chances with only three errors, Slough having second place with only two erors in seventy chances. Valdois has four errors in thirty-three chances, whileFrank has three errors in twenty six chances.
 Cribbins leads the pitchers in fielding, having accepted twenty-two chances; | Sechrist has accepted three chances in | his three RdHlGS, W HIlC IACIh DoACy hoo | one error in six chances, those canoes, however, being six assists showing that
 he is doing the best field work of aAy of the pitchers.
 In the pitching department Glpn
 has suddenly jumped from the infeld | to the box and it seems that he is as | good a slab artist as he is shortstop. l Bailey has won his two games, though
 he won one in Chattanooga which is
 not counted now-allowing only twelve hits. striking out four men and giV- | ing but three bases on balls. Glenn has won the only full game that he has
 pitched, the game that he helped
 Sechrist out in Chattanooga not being
 credited to him. He has only allowed
 seven hits and given only one base on
 balls with one strike out.
 The averages-not including the | games in Chattanooga-up to last Sat
 urday night are:
 | Batting.