The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-22

looked 1t. lansing says that Ed Pabst met them at the station when they came through Los Angeles.
 ,,nI Ed is looking 96 bet. better than I have seen think he is able to play better ball this year than ever before. He will leave Los Angeles sometime during the latter part of this week and should be here early next week at the latest"
 The batting and fielding average last year of the players mentioned will be interesting to local fans. In the Pacific Coast League last year Lansing, out of lo3 games played with Seattle, had 156 hits. g stolen bases and an average of .2SS. Schwartz in the same League had in 205 games with Oakland and Seattle, 223 hits, B stolen bases and an average sists and g errors at third base with a fielding average of .S33, while Schwartz at second had 432 putouts. 519 assists and 61 errors with fielding average of .93i
 In the New York League last year, out of lls games. Delehanty had 112 hits with u batting average of .242. He played in the outfield and had 83 putouts, 30 as slsts and 22 errors. with 59 runs, sac rifice hits. IL stolen bases and a fielding average Of .y22.
 Out of 1S1 games played with San Fran cisco in the Pacific Coast League Ed. Pabst had 17O hits. H stolen bases. 59 runs and an average of .253 In fielding he had 1,9aS putouts, 101 assists and 36 errors with
 
 2O4s chances at first base Is a magnifi- cent record and one rarely equalled by any ball player in the United States.
 Right here it Is interesting as a mat ter of comparison to state that Dillon, the first baseman claimed by Morley of the Los Angeles Club in that League and oyer whom there was almost renewal of the fight between the outlaws and or of Pabst in fielding. Dillon's average was 1881 putouts, 12O assists and 8 er- TOTS, an average of 1884 or g more chances and 3 less errors than Pabst. So 1t may readily be seen what bright par ticular star Montgomery has secured in the long first baseman who set the local fans on fire when he was here with Dick German in 1896.
 In his 125 games last year Kid Busch had 76 hits, 10 sacrifice hits, 13 stolen bases, ~ runs with a batting average of .1S6. Tn fielding he had 236 put outs and 293 assists, with 70 errors. Five hundred and twenty-nine chances at short with 70 errors may not look so we'll to out siders. but the local fans remember that Heine Busch went after everything in sight, taking chances that would make lots of other ball players fall dead before thinking of attempting them.
 In the backstop department Wilkie Clark in his l21 games had 1?0 hits, 2S sacrifice hits. 12 stolen bases and 37 runs with batting average of 270. In fielding he had 5sO putouts. 14s assists and only
 
 chances and only 21 errors. while his brilliant throwing to bases was the dis tinctive feature of lots of games in Montgomery and all over the Southern League.
 Harry Manners caught only 26 games. or rather played in 26. but he had 15 hits, ' sacrifice hits. stolen base. 6 runs with batting average of .2O5. while he had % putouts and assists with only errors, and an average of .9a3.
 This disposes of the inf1eld and back stops, while in the outfield Molesworth easily led the locals with 159 hits in 125 games, 10 sacrifice hits, 9 stolen bases. H runs and batting average of .319, while in the field he had 295 putouts 1I assists and 2 errors with an average of
 In his S3 games Link stickney had s7 hits, sacrifice hit. stolen bases, A runs and batting average of .2bS. In fielding he had lS4 putouts, IS assists, IS errors with an average of .9l0.
 In the Pacific National last year Ike Durrett had l49 hits in his lld games of which g were two-baggers, 10 three-bag- gers, 16 sacrifice hits, @ stolen bases, 73 runs and a batting average of .32S-in nelding he had l29 putouts, IA assists and l6 errors, an average of .927
 Just cursory glance at this brilliant array Of records demonstrates that Man ager, Stickney has, to say the least of if a pretty good outfit, and but ten of the twenty-three men signed have reported Doesn't look much like Montgomery is as quiet as a graveyard" eh! Its m to somebody to cut those expressions out but it will be cut out for them all right along fin the merry month of A Dru