Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-05


 nor, Davis, Ganzel, Quick.
 By Boston Young, Farrell, Freeman, Winter, O'Brien, Criger, Collins, Gtb- son, Ferris, Walker, Parent, Hughes, Lachance, Dougherty, Unglaub, Din cen, G. J. Staihl, O.. Stahl, Stone.
 By Chicago White, Alt rock, Tannehill Green. Donahue, Sul- livan, Patterson, Isbell. Clarke, Hall man, George Davis, Mcfarland, Ow- ems, Magoon, Holmes. Dundon, Berry, Flaherty, Callahan, F. Jones, 0. Jones.
 By St Louis--Anderson, Hill, Bur kett, Powell, siever. Padden, Martin, Sugden, Sudhoff, Jones, Friel, sHamp- hill, Kahoe, Wright, Wallace, Heid- rick, Shannon, Petty.
 By Detroit - Donovan, Kissinger, Barrett, Yeager, O'Leary, Laporte, Mullin, Buelow, Crawford, McAllister, Mcintyre, Kitson. McGuire, Carr, Courtney, Ferry, Kane, Lush, Burns, Faulkner, Gettman. 1. @5~.
 By Cleveland--H Hickey, Glendon, Ab- bolt, Lajoie, Flick, Joss, Shaw, Myers, Stovall, Killfan. Bemis, Gochnaur, Bernhard, Hess, Atherton, Pastor, Tho ney, Curtis, Hickman, Bradley, Dona- hue, Dorner, Rossman, Rhoades,. Tur- ner, Harvey, Bay, Moore, Grimshaw, Carbinier. ,.
 By Philadelphia - schreckongost, Bender, Davis, Hartsel1, Fairbanks, Powers, Henley, Murphy, Pickering, Hilley, Plank, McGeehan, Monte Cross, Hoffman, Bruce, Waddell, Coakley, Lave Cross, Quinn.
 By Washington-Lee. Townsend, Mccormick, Robinson. Hendricks, Pat ten, Drill Coughlin, Dunkle, Osteen, Orth, Clarke, Moran, Cassidy, Jacob son, Wilson, Kittridge, SeIbach, Ryans Mason. ..
 Hans Wagner of Pittsburg is the champion batsman of the National league for 1903. The official averages of all players who took part in fifteen games or more during the season which closed on September 27 were given out yesterday for publication by President Pulliam for publication. While they show that Kennedy of Pittsburg leads the league with an average of 1862, he participated in only ten complete games, and the laurels for the year are rightfully awarded to Wagner, who took part in 129 games, and whose average was 1855. Donlin of Cincinnati and Clarke of Pittsburg are tied for second honors with .351 each; Bresnahan of New York is third with $50; Seymour of Cincin- natl fourth with ..342; Beaumont of Pittsburg, last years champion, fifth with .341. and Sheckard of Brooklyn sixth with .332. The list of 1900" hitters numbers only twenty men, as follows: Cincinnati, five, Donlin Seymour, Beckley, Kelly and, Stein feldt; Brooklyn three, Sheckard, Me Creedle and Doyle; Philadelphia. three, Thomas, Keister and Wolver- ton; New. York two, Bresnahan and Browne; Boston one, Penney; Chi cago one, Chance; St Louis one, Dono- van. Wagner, besides being the champion batsman of the year, also is entitled to the honors for long dis tance hitting. During the season his drives for more than base were as follows: Doubles, 30; triples, 19; home runs, 5; total bases, 137. Fol lowing close on the heels of the Smoky City star comes Mertes of New York, whose hits for more than a single were: Doubles, 32; triples. IA; home runs 7;total bases, 134. Donlin of Cincinnati is third on the list his long range performances being apportioned as follows: Doubles, 25; triples, 1S; home runs, z; total bases, 132. Beau mont made the greatest number of hits-2O9 in Al games. Seymour. is second with 191 in 135 games. and Wagner third with 182 in 129 games. The long hit leaders were: Doubles, Clarke, Mertes and Steinfeldt tied. at 32 each; triples. Wagner, 19; home runs, Sheckard, g. Six men crossed the plate one hundred times or more during the season, Beaumont being the boss run getter of the league, with 137 tallies to his credit. The other men were: Donlin, no; Browne, 1O4: :: Strang, 1O1; Mertes, 100. Sheckard and Chance are tied for the base-steaI- ing honors, each hving 67 stolen bases to his credit. Wagner and Strang are tied for second with 46 apiece: and Mertes is third with 45. McGann leads in sacrifice hits with 30; Gilbert is second with 26, and Wolverton third with 23. #