The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-10
BATTING AVERAGES
HENLINE LEADS THE CLIMBERS IN
 SWAPPING.
Maiarky's Men are Playing Champion- ship Ball Now and are Forging
 to Top.

The Climbers have played champion ship ball during the last six games. losing two and winning four. One of the lost games was the 1 to shut out in New Orleans on Sunday, June 2nd, and the other-that farcical affair in which Walker knocked himself out Of a job in the Memphis game last Tuesday. Their batting has been some for any old ball team, the average be- ing up seven points from last Mondays record. In the last six games they have made an average of nearly eight swatted the ball clean forty-six times, and made twenty-seven runs, nearly five s,,e,s. to a game: Henline leads the in In seventeen games, though he has played twenty-three games less than Neal Bali. who has forty dye hits in thirty-two hits in thirty-three games. and Nye fourth with nineteen hits in twenty three games, sebaugh has but being at the bat twenty four times more than Ball, puts his average four points less than the second baseman. eentage, though r Fred Houtz. S with with For For batting .2s5. Neal Ball led the hit sng last week with nine hits in six hits apiece in six games; Seabaugh six hits in five games; Henline six In six games; Hausen three in three games; Perry five in six games. and We two In six games. Seabaugh and Houtz are the only four sack hitters so far, Houtz leading the long hits with three Baxter having. five two sackers. Ball leads the sacrifice hits with nine and Perry seven. and Nye. Hausen and Hen stolen bags. Ball fourteen, Baxter nine, Henline four, Hausen and Nye three each, Malarky and Sebaugh two each. games last week. the men taking ali kinds of chances on the paths and stealing nine bags.
 Moose Baxter leads the fielding and basemen. In SIS chances, thirty nine of them assists, he has only eleven errors. In. fifteen chances. Sebaugh into one of the star backstops of the league. his speciality being going back after foul tips, hitting and fast work only nine, errors, and is playing the swiftest short in this league. In 251 chances. Bill Hausen has only fourteen ond base. He plugs any hole in the in or outf1eld, playing right field on this trip; In 17s chances, Clayton playing a much faster game than he did last year. In 113 chances Nye has only ten errors; and If he can get out
 
 meet it. he will be one of the fastest second basemen in the league. Henline and Houtz are both playing a fast game in the gardens.
 Maxwell leads the pitching staff with six won out of his eleven games. not giving quite seven hits a game, not quite four bases on balls a game and over five strike-outs a game. In his eleven games. seven hits a game have been made off Malarky, not two bases on balls and nearly four strike-outs a game, his control being good Over seven hits a game have been made off Walsh In his thirteen games, while he has struck out three a game and given not quite three bases on balls a game In his one game, sixteen hits were made off Sam Weems, while he only gave two bases on balls and struck out four men.
 The batting. fielding and pitching averages for the six games. including June ?, and the game with Shreveport Saturday, are: