Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-11
AND FIELDING
AVERAGES OF THE NATIONALS

The complete records Of all the homo
players who have participated in the games
in which the Nationals have played since
the commencement Of the championship
race of the American League, not includ-
ing yesterday. will be found in the follow
ing tables. which are compiled from the
official scores as they appear in the columns
of The Star from day to day.
The Nationals have played ninety-fve
games in the period mentioned, winning
twenty-nine and losing sixty-four. and
they have played two tie games, each
with New York and Cleveland.
In the past week they played five games,
meeting Detroit and Cleveland. winning one
and losing four. In the five games played
the players have been at the bat 1874 times
and made forty-one hits-a batting average
Of .2J0-while their opponents were at the
bat ITO times and made forty -four hits-an
average of .246 They made ten sacrifice
hits and pilfered twelve bases while their
opponents made four sacrifice hits and pur-
Joined five bases. They made forty-one sin
giles. six doubles and three tripIes-a total
Of ffty-three bases.
Clymer remains the leading batsmen of
the team. and OF the American League. al
though falling Off somewhat during the
past week: but in the twenty-seven games
In which he has played with the home
team he has been at the bat 1OS times and
made forty-one base hits, which gives him
batting percentage Of $780, loss Of but
007. Delehanty continues to do good work
with the stick, and Is batting above the
300 mark. with .3O4. Altizer, Ganley and
Nil made creditable gains in their batting,
but Shipke, who was considered a weak
batsman in the Western League, Is making
very creditable gains since coming to the
Nationals. and has jumped from less than
100 in the tWentV-Qin0 RAme0 to .l74. maxi
ing a gain Of .029 in the last five games,
and at that rate will soon be in the .250
class Ganley leads the team In total bases
Ing made 100 hits), nine doubles, five
triples and one home run. giving him
total Of 126 bases. Altizer Is next with 1OS
jumped the team, had 11s. Altizer has
wrested the lead from Capt. Ganley In the
matter Of stolen bases, having purloined
twenty-three to Ganleys twenty-five both
having played in every game. and are the
only ones to have done SO. Jones is not
far behind with nineteen to his credit. AL
tizer also leads the team In making sacri-
fee hits, having made seventeen, while
Jones and Ganley have made sixteen and
twelve. respectively. Clymer has stolen
twelve bases and made three sacrifice hits:
Johnson. the Idaho phenom. now leads
the pitchers in percentage of games won,
having won 80 per cent of his games, and
with such twirling as he put up against
Detroit and Cleveland. he ought to win.
with proper support, lNIet-iUul LIS u uIS
games as with his speed and curves he
seems to be unhittable. Falkenberg also
demonstrated that he Is fine twirler. and
with support and little hitting back of
him, he as well as Smith. will win a ma
1ority of his games. He has the strike
out record of the team. having famed
eleven Maps Thursday. and allowing but
three hits. The team has added two more
twirlers to it's staff Of slab artists in Ton
kins, who has been playing with the Mar
tinsburg, w. Va, team, and did excellent
work last Saturday when he allowed the
Winchester team but one hit IN six innings.
The other is a pitcher from the Wisconsin
state League, who has also been doing good
work, and will join the team in Chicago.
The team has also bought an outfielder
from Martinsburg by the name Of Kay. who
has proved very handy man with the bat,
having a percentage Of $50 in the games
he has played 50 far this season, A new
man from the Texas League Will JOIN the
team at St. Louis, and will be given trial
at short.
Freeman of Minneapolis. has been pur-
chased. but as that team has good chance
Of winning the pennant In the American
Association It will not let him go until the
season ends early in September. when the
fans will no doubt have chance to see
him in a National uniform.