The Elbert County tribune., 1907-07-25
PLAYERS ACTIVE
WITH THE BAT
CLUBS IN BOTH MAJOR LEAGUES
DOING PLENTY OF HITTING
THIS SEASON.
sLUGGINC CONTESTS FREQUENT
Opposition to Foul Strike Rule Is No
Longer Heard-Latter Does Not At
feet Batting, According to Pittsburs
Club offioiaI-Figures from National
and American League Records.

Baseball fans find little complaint to
make against the way the ball clubs
are hitting this season and the result
strike rule, which raised such a storm
couple of years ago, has passed
away.
While the individual batsmen are
not ranging higher In their percent.
ages, the clubs. as clubs, are doing
plenty of stickwork. and the fans have
been regaled many time this sea
son with slugging contests that are
the joy OF the rooter.
Games in which the hits have
mounted into two figures-from ten
upward-have been frequent, and
there have been many contests in
which the number of runs tailed has
reached similar proportions. Both ma
jor leagues show that this kind OF
games are not uncommon this year,
though the American league, with
fewer games played, has had a great
er number of big hit" exhibitions than
its opponent, the National organiza-
ton.
Since the agitation concerning the
foul-strike rule has ceased the fans
have come to see for themselves that
1t is a good thing" said Secretary
Locke, Of the Pittsburg club. ANY
innovation, no matter whether good,
bad or Indifferent, will cause lot of
adverse criticism from critics, but
time will overcome all that just as 1t
has In this Inc In Atl
That the foul-strike rule does not
affect the batting is easily to be seen
by any fan who wants to see it. Let
him look over the records and he will
see in a jiffy that there is just aa
much batting to-day as there ever was.
When close game is played, with lit
tie hitting, the fans don't like it half
as well as when the ball is hammered
all over the lot and barrel of runs
are scored. They like the close gaines
well enough, but there isn't the inter
est in them that is found in regular
slugging bee
By little figuring 1t will be found
that in the National league, where 252
games had been played up to the time
of this writing, there were no less
than AZ contests in which ten hits
were made; SO of IL hits, II of 12 hits,
20 of 13 hits, IL of IA hits, three of Is
hits. four of 16 hits, one of II hits,
three of IS and two of 20 hits, which
Is the highest number registered in
either league in one game this year.
In the scoring of runs tfn National
league has had nine in which ten men
we're scored, seven with IL runs. six
with IL runs, one of 13 runs, two of IA
and two of 15
In 139, of a total of 252 games. ten
or more base hits were made, and in
27 games ten or more runs scored.
The American leagues record is
slightly higher than the Nationals
OF 24S games played. 147 had ten hits
or more and 22 games had ten or
more runs scored
There have been AZ games, in each
of which ten hits were made, "a of IL
hits, IL of IL hits, IL of 13 hits, 20 of
IA hits. nine of is hits, one of 16, three
of II. seven of IS, one of 10 and two
of 20.
In the scoring of runs there have
been seven of ten runs. three of IL
runs, three of 12, three of 10, three of
Is and three of 16.