Evening star., 1907-08-04
BATTING AND FIELDING
AVERAGES OF THE NATIONALS

The complete records of all the Eome
players who have participated in the games
in which the Nationals have played since
the commencement of the championship
race of the American League up to and in
cluding Fridays games with Detroit will
be found In the following 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 games
In the period mentioned, winning twenty
eight and losing sixty, and they have
played two tie games one each with New
York and Cleveland
In the past week mot including yester
days game) they played seven games.
meeting st. Louis, Chicago and Detroit.
winning two and losing five. In the seven
games played the players have been at the
bat 900 times and made f1fty-seven hits-a
batting average Of .257-while their oppo-
nents were at the bat 242 times and made
sixty-three hits-an average of 26O. They
made nine sacrifice hits and pilfered four
teen bases, while their opponents made six
sacrifice hits and purloined eight bases.
They made fifty-seven singles, eight dou-
bles and three triples-a total of seventy
one bases
Gehring, the young twirling recruit Sc
cured from Des Moines Iowa. who pitched
in the game against Chicago with the great
twirler Walsh in the box against him, did
excellent work, keeping his opponents down
to six hits and allowing them to score but
three runs. He pitches with confidence and
has great control. Another agreeable sur
prise was the fine work by Falkenberg,
when ne pitched fifteen and two-thirds
innings against the same team. allowing
hits In six and two thir0S
innings. and passing but one hatsman in
the entire number of innings. Johnson. the
Idaho phenom. pitched very creditabe
game against Detroit. allowing the Tigers
but six hits, two Of which were bunts in
the first inning and one a bound which
went over Altizer's head In Gehr.ng and
Johnson Manager Cantillon has secured two
promising youngsters. johnson has great
speed and almost perfect control.
Clymer still leads the team in batting,
having played in twenty-three games and
been at the bat ninety three times and
made thirty-six hits, giving him batting
percentage of .3S7. Delehanty Is still bat
ting over the 300 mark with .314. Jones
has average of .2S0, and Ganley, 20
Ganley now leads the team in total bases,
having made nnety-seven singles, eight
doubles four triples and one home run. a
total of 116 bases. Anderson has 115. AL
tizer comes next with 102.
Ganey leads the team in the number of
stolen bases. having purlOined twenty-five,
Altizer coming next with twenty, Ander-
son. eighteen; Jones, seventeen and ely
mer, eleven in twenty-three games. AL
tizer is the leader in sacrifice hitting with
fourteen to his credit while Jones and Can
ley come next with thirteen and eleven, re-
spectively Clymer has made eleven.
The team has the services of only one
catcher Heydon, as Warner has a split
and broken finger. and Blankenship has not
fully recovered from the injury he received
before the team went west Manager Can
tillon has secured Block from the Galveston
club of the South Texas League, who is
good catcher. In ninetyfour games last
year he flelded .941 and batted .21O. He
also pitched in seven games and won five
of them.