The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-16
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Frank Shugart is away down on the
American list, with an average of 1852.
Phil Geier is .22S; Jack Katoll is at the
very bottom with an even 100.
In the National league fielding aver
ages Ryan, of st. Louis, leads the catch
ers with but eight errors in sixty games
and an average of .972 McGann, of st.
Louis, leads the first basemen, with 1856;
Peitz, of Cincinnati, the second basemen,
with 1888; Davis, of New York, the third
basemen, with 1913, and the shortstops
also, with .945; Keller, Of Brooklyn, and
Wagner, of Pittsburg, are tied for out
fielding honors, each having 1888.
Harper, of st. Louis, leads National
league pitchers, with good Deacon Phil
lipe second. Matthewson Is tenth; Wad-
dell eighteenth, and old Jack Menefee
twenty fifth. Pitchers averages seldom
prove much, but in the American league
they tell the truth for once, for they
give Clark Griffith first place and Cy
Young second. Patterson ranks tenth,
Chick Fraser eleventh, Callahan twelfth,
and Katoll thirteenth.
Chance, of Chicago, leads the National
league in base runners, with an average
of 453, while Sandow Mertes, of Cn4cago,
helds similar rank in the American with
1862.
In the National, Crawford, of Cincin-
natl, has made 16 home runs and II three
baggers. Lajoie, in the American, has
made 10 homers and IL. three-SackerS
Waddell and Matthewson lead the Ma
tional twirlers in strike-outs, averaging
Z per game. Young leads the American
with an average Of strike-outs per game
Cy Young has pitched Is games without
giving base on balls, and has been in g.
class by himself as regards accuracy.
Francis C. Richter, the we'll known PhIa-
delphia baseball authority, is very much
pleased with the action Of the minor
leagues in effecting an organization at the
Chicago meeting. He says:
In convention assembled, last week In
Chicago, all the minor leagues Of this
great country effected an organization for
mutual offense and defense, upon their
own terms with their own officers and
their own board Of arbitration, under
their own national agreement; and, hap
PLY. without any entangling alliance with
either of the graSping, selfish major
leagues.
So far as can be judged, at this distance
and time, the-new national agreement Is
broad, equitable and sufficiently elastic to
embrace without friction all the minor
leagues herrceforth under it's aegis. The
operation thereof is also entrusted to
capable, experienced and fair-minded men
such as the able Mr.. Powers and the
energetic Mr.. Hickey, who, the one as
chief executive of the new association,
and the other as chairman of the board
of arbitration, will find a fruitful and
pleasing field for their undoubted organ
ization and administrative talents.
The present independent organization Of
the minor leagues Is the best thing for
all the leagues, and, therefore, for base
ball, all things considered. Ultimately the
two warning major leagues must get to-
gether. Then, if the minor leagues hold
together and perfect their present organ
ization, we shall have q novel and ideal
condition; for, with the major league OPP
Grating under new agreement and all
the minor leagues working under their
own agreement, there will be between the
two great divisions of the baseball world
the major and minor-such an exact bal
ance of power as will compel mutual re-
spect, tolerance and fair dealing, and thus
open up the hapniest era baseball has
ever enjoyed.