Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-20
NATIONALS BATTING
AND FIELDING
CIymer Continues to Improve
With Stick and Smith Is
Best Fielder.

The complete records of the players
composing the Nationals team from April
H. the beginning of the pennant race for
the championship of the American League.
including all games played by them up
to Sunday. July 10, will be found in the
following tables, which have been COM
piled from the official scores that are
published in the columns of The Star each
day during the base ball season. During
the period mentioned the Nationals have
played eighty-one games with the other
seven teams composing the American
League. OF these games they have thir-
ty-two victories to their credit and have
sustained forty-eight defeats. and they
have played sixteen-inning tie game
with the Chicagos. During the past week
the Nationals have played seven games.
winning four and losing three.
Delehanty, who has not as yet recov-
cred from his illness and is not now with
the team. still is at the top of the Ma
tionals' batting list with an average of
31S in forty-eight games and Is very
near the top of the hitters of the Amer-
can League. Otis Clymer, who jumped
into second place in the last averages,
still continued his good work in the four
games in which he took part by making
five hits out of twelve times at bat, which
gave him a batting average for the week
of All and boosted his total average in
ffty-three games from .272 to .2S1, gain
Of coo for the week, and at his present
rate he should soon be in the select 800
class. The unaccountable slump in bat
ting of Capt. Ganley from .235 July to
.23J Is to be regretted, and il is to be
hoped that he will regain his batting eye
before the team goes west. Freeman has
improved in his stick work during the
past week by .O05. and is now batting 239.
which Is very encouraging to his many
friends. Jerry is hard worker. Mcbride
Is also beginning to WELD the willow very
successfully and has increased his averags
from :21o to .221, a gain of COG. Milan
has also lost his batting eye, as he is bat
ting at the present time only .245. Shipke
Is hitting the ball much better than he
has since the opening of the season, and
some of his hits are timely.
The team as whole is batting In much
better form, having gained .OO5 per cent
during the week in the seven games
played. there being only three players
who lost during the week in percentage.
In fielding Smith still leads. with a per
rect record in sixteen games in which he
has occupied the slab, accepting forty-one
chances without an error. Freeman went
through the week without an error accept
ing slxty-fve chances Clearly without the
semDlance OF an error. and while he keeps
that up there does not seem much chance
for unglaub to take his place. except
probably when left-hander is pitching,
as he is a right-handed batter, and is
batting about .27O. He will add strength
to the team in batting and can play
any of the infield positions
In base stealing Milan still leads the
team, with nineteen pilfered bases. fol-
lowed by Ganley and Shipke. with twelve
each, Clymer being third with nine and
Altizer is doing good work in this line
In sacrifice hitting Ganey not only leads
the team, but also the American League
with thirty to his credit, Shipke being
second. with thirteen, and Altizer third,
with twelve. The team as a whole is
very near the top in base stealing, as the
Nationals in the eighty-one games played
have stolen ninety-four bases to their OPP
ponents' sixty-nine, and have made 103
sacrifice hits to their opponents ninety
d very credtable record.