The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-10
GOSSIP OF AMERICAN LEAGUE


GOSSIP OF AMERICAN LEAGUE
Elmer Flick leads the league in
stolen bases with 35.
Flick leads the league in triples
with 16.
Stovall has the same number of
steals as he has sacrifice hits, IA.
Turner has stolen 22 bases, an aver
age of steal every FIVE games.
Bill Bradley has but one triple to
his credit-that made August "a.
Birmingham, of Cleveland has
made nine triples against eight
doubles this year.
Bemis, who was hitting the fence
last year by hard hitting. has but four
doubles to his mark so far.
Joss, Liebhardt, Thielman and
Rhoades have each a double to their
credit, although Liebhardt has added
triple, which the others have not
got.
scored by five runs in the last Is
games. His position in the batting
column causes 1t.
Clarke has not made a hit longer
than double since July "a. when he
made a triple.
Cleveland has stolen 156 bases and
made 157 sacrifice hits.
Capt. Bill Coughlin, of Detroit. has
put pair of triples and seven doubles
to show for his work all season.
Lajoie leads the league in doubles
with rs.
''WahoO" Sam Crawford leads the
league in runs scored with II.
Cobb was the first player in either
league to make $50 hits, crossing that
mark August 25- His one hundred
and fiftieth hit was a triple, while his
one hundredth was double Will his
Two hundredth be home run? His
nftieth was single, so that he is due
Tor four Dagger next.
Cobb has hit safely in 33 out of his
last 3S games
clyde Rossman, whom Cleveland
released to Detroit, has been hitting
very well lately. He has made 20 hits
in the 16 games.
OLeary has but one triple and Is
doubles in 166 games.
k1llfan has as many triples as Null
lin, S1ever, Eubanks and Donovan
combined.
Dave Jones. of Detroit by percent
age of runs per game played, leads the
league.
Schmidt has as many triples as
doubles, FIVE.
Detroit was the first team of either
league to make over 1000 hits. 1t
made that number August IS a
double was the 1000 hit The team
was also the first to score over 500
runs, crossing the home plate with this
number the day after they made the
1 900 hit.
Fielder Jones, who has made 100.
hits, has failed to hit out anything
more than a double. - -
Isbell, when he was hurt. had just
one more hit to make to get 100. He
had Is doubles, Is steals and Is sac
rifice hits.
Donohue is second to Hahn as a run
getter for the White Sox
Robe, who is noted for long hitting,
has failed dismally this year to do any
smuggling, as he has managed, in 100
games, to make but doubles with
triples.
Up to Labor Day, Dougherty had
gone Is games without scoring a run.
Hickman since joining the White
5ox has made hits, but he has been
at bat only Is times, so his average is
222 since he left Washington.
Billy Sullivan has failed to make a
nome run this year; he generally has
4 few by this time.
White has nothing to show for his
seasons work at bat but singles.
George Davis still has his triple and
home run that he made July 81 and
May 4. He has not repeated in either
since.
One-fourth of Frank Smiths hits
have been for extra bases.
The hitIess wonders, as the Sox are
known around the circuit, have but
home runs and 26 triples made in 1875
games.
Pickering, who. it was expected
would show up the base stealers
after he got started, has stolen but IL
LII season.
Tom Jones still retains his good eye
n sacrifice hitting. for he has 20 to
ais credit.
Stone, the champion batter, has
made one more triple than he has
1oubles this season. He has nine
doubles and ten triples.
Hemphill has the same number of
'tolen bases as he has sacrifice hits
IA.