The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-14
HE SELMA BALL TEAM
m AxxRs REFLEcTING CREDIT
 ON CENTRAL CITY.
Fender Leading His Clever Az kxogation of Ball Tossers. Averages of Men Compiled
 by Squire Brown.

FIG people of Selma have every req
 Ato be more than satisfied with the
 rexafion of ball-tossers that Bob
 xnder has gotten together. With the H11111t games they have played up to x1k Saturday night, they have demon- 6<fSted the fact trat they will give
 11oebody a good, hard run for their nancy this summer.
 Ins fielding they are way above the avefage. and if they had hit in the eakht games like tkey backed up the { nitchers, they would come pretty near E 18nding the League today.
 Bob Penier .lin self leads his men in Kidding. having accepted seventy-four &6knnces at first base and tieing Dal- Accepted chances. Being in centre neId, DalrympIe does not have many opportunities to make an assist unless he IS playing close in and doubles up a base runner at second base. Stouch comes next with fifty-one chances and only one error, and second base is a pretty tough place to play. he having fo cover lots of ground, besides watch {ug his bag. Alexander, doing the back stop work, comes next with twenty-tWo chances and only one error, while Glenn has thfrty-two chances and only two errors. His position-short-st the most difficult and important place. in infield or outfield. Frank, in left field, has seventeen chances and two errors, while Longley, in right field, has twelve chances and two errors. Val dois. on third base-another important position--hSs eighteen chances and three errors, tieing Longley, although he has six more chances than the lat ter.
 Cribbins leads the pitching depart ment in fielding, having in four games sixteen chances without an error. Se- crist comes next with three accepted chances in two games, while Lem Bailey has four chances in his one game.
 The game in Birmingham is not credited to Bailey, as he only went in two innings and did not go to bat at all. The same thing is done in the bat tfnK and pitching averages.
 Sfouch leads the team in batting with nine hits in the eight games, Valdois coming next with eight hits in the six games that he played. Frank is next with nine hits in eight games, the diff ference being that he was at bat four more times than Stouch. Alexander has six hits in seven games, while LonKIey nas eight hits in eight games. Fender. however. is fifteen points above him as he was at bat twenty-eight times to Longley's thirty-four. Glenn and Dalrymple each have six hits in the eight games.
 Of the pitchers, Cribbins has four hits in his four games, while Bailey has two hits In his one game, Lem leading the pitching staff in hitting. McAfee got one hit in his game. while Secrist has not hit in two games.
 Bailey gave up only six hits in the Nashville game. gave only two bases on balls and struck out three men. Cribbins gave only twenty hits in his four games, an average of five game {; .gave only four bases on balls and struck out four men. an average of one to a game. Secrist allowed eighteen hits in his two games. nine hits game av- craze: gave eleven bases on balls and struck out five men. In McAfee's game nine hits were made off him, but he, o{llv gave one base on balls and struck dut two of the heavy hitting Nashville men.
 On the whole the showing Is very Isatisfactory--a team fielding average AQf .s94, team batting average of .175.
 AThe averages in full are as follows: