Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-13
NATIONALS RECORD,
BATTING FIELDING
clymer Jumps Into Second
Place on Account of His
Hitting Last Week.

The complete records of the players
composing the Nationals team from the
commencement OF the pennant race for
the championship of the American League
up to Sunday, July IL. will be found in
the tables which are here given and
which have been compiled from the off,
cial scores that have appeared in The
star from day to day, The Nationals
nave contested seventy-four games with
the other seven teams composing the
league. Of which number they have won
twenty-eight and lost forty-fve, and on
Friday last played a slxteen.innins tie
game with the Chicago White Sox, in
which the team did some very sensa-
tional fielding by cutting off three runs
at the plate, which would have won the
game for their opponents.
During the last week they have played
Ave games with the Chicagos, winning
one and losing three and playing a six
teen-inning tie game, score, to =, and
one game with st. Louis, beating them
by the score of 4 to Q
Delehanty, although not playing at the
present time, is still leading the team in
batting with an average of .31S, and con-
tinues to be up among the leaders of the
league. Capt. Ganley, who was next last
week, owing to a decided slump from
the week before, has been superseded by
Clymer. who has jumped from a per-
having made fourteen base hits during
the week out of twenty-nine times at bat,
giving him a batting average OF 1888 for
the week. and increasing his average for
considerable improvement with the stick.
and Is hitting left-handers as well as
right flanders.
The team, as whole, is doing better
batting. hut has not fielded up to its
mark since coming home. Falkenberg
Hughes Burns. Mcbride and Johnson
have all increased their batting percent
ages during the week. while Ganley
Milan, Warner and Street have lost In
percentage. In fielding Smith is leading
with a clean record in fourteen games
with others who have played in but few
games in the different positions. but Free
man Is the actual leader with .977 In sew
enty-four games. He and Mcbride have
not missed game. Ganley leads IN
total bases with ninety-ene. followed by
Milan with eishty-three and Freeman
with seventy-eight total bases. In sacri-
flee hitting Ganley still remains at the
top with thirty sacrifice hits to his credit
and is at the head in the league, Altizer
and ShipKe being tied for second place
with eleven each. The team leads Its
opponents in this respect in the games
played to date by nineteen.
In base stealing Center Fielder Milan
leads with eighteen pilfered bases. fol-
lowed by Ganley and Shipke with ten
each. The team. as whole, Is doing
good work in this line. as the figures will
show. and 1t leads its opponents by
nineteen in the seventy-four games.
The pitchers are doing fine work. es-
pecially Hughes, johnson, Burns, Tame
hill, Smith and Falkenberg. and the eff
feetiveness table will show that they are
not being batted hard. with one or two
exceptions. Tannehill has shown great
Improvement and seems to have recovered
his old-time form. as evidenced by the
game he pitched against Chicago Thurs
day. allowing but four hits, and two OF
those were rather seratehy. Falkenberg,
Hughes and Tannehill have a percentage
of SOD and upward. They meet st. Louis
and Cleveland the coming week for seven
contests and should win 4 majority OF
them. The figures follow: