The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-21
WHY DOUBLE-H
LEADS LEAGUE
houoHToN BASEBALL FAN WHO
HAS KEPT CASES ON AVER
AGES OF LEAGUE PLAY
2 Frs EXPLAINS 1T.

Everyone who has been watching
the baseball situation as regards the
Copper Country Baseball league, is
aware that the team representing
Houghton and Hurontown, generally
referred TO as the Double-H. team
stands at the head of the percentage
column with a perfect percentage
mark, having won every league game
IL has played in this season, eight in
all. Some of the better fans, the ones
who take it upon themselves 10 walk
up TO the grounds in Hurontown when
the team is playing at home, have an
idea why the local ball players are
winning all their games. other fans,
who get the greatest part of their
baseball from the printed accounts OF
the games, are not so well posted on
these fine points.
In order that these stay-at-home
baseball fans may learn the real rea-
son why the Doube-H. is making such
a splendid showing in the Copper
Country Baseball league, the other
teams OF which are representing Han
cock. Lake Linden. Gay, Mohawk and
Winona, a reporter for The Calumet
News, interviewed one Of the fans this
morning.
Is Il Luck?
at Is being murmured throughout
the copper country" says this fan,
that the Double-H. baseball team has
been holding it's perfect percentage OF
1000 through what is known as base
ball luck" In baseball there is such
n thing as luck. No one can deny that
There are instances when a player or
even whole nine, has an offs day.
and cannot get down to scientific base
ball. No one knows these facts better
than a real, superstitious player or
fan. DO not our major league players
and managers carry their good luck
ward off n "hoodoo"?
"The Hurontown- Houghton ball
tossers are not exceptions TO this rule.
They have their little emblems of good
luck. and their fear of n hoodo. They
have their chief-rooter with his win |
ming smile, and it has even been sus-
pected that some of the players have |
taking ways. All this is well enough,
but where does the baseball come in?
Is baseball a secondary consideration
in our national game? The records of
clubs all over the country say it is not
so. The best team must win, which
means that the individual players must
unite, and work together.
Good Batting and Pitching.
Fright mere is where the leaders
score a point No more convincing
evidence of this truth can be shown
than the fact that so far this season
the Double-H. team has secured 26
sacrifice hits and is stolen bases, while
the teams against whom they played
are credited with a total OF but three
sacrifices, and six steals. Without a
doubt pitching and hitting take the
most important role in successful ball
playing. Here, again. the Double-H.
players have IT on the other teams.
I'm the eight league games played
so far the batting average of the club
is POI, while their opponents average
1853. This is due. of course, not om9
TO heavier batting, but. also, to the SUI
perior work of the Double-H. twirlers,
who have famed sixty batsmen
and allowed fifty hits. The leaders of |
the league have secured eighty-two ,
hits from opposing pitchers, and thir-
ty- eight Hurontown- Houghton boys
have been struck out. AS a result of
this good work, the top-notchers have
scored sixty-two runs. as against rs
by their rival aspirants for the cham
pionship.
Six Hitting Over 300 Mark.
Where in baseball circles is there n
cam which can boast Of six batters I'm
he 800 class? Two-thirds Of the
Oouble-H. squad are hitting over the
300 mark, their averages being as fol-
ows:
Billy Mutter ...................4S ass ,
Barley Wagner 80. go. ......,..407 ,
BIZ Trathen -. $3.50. ........3S5
cert NetIe ......... ... ........,346
Big Pete" Wagner ...... .......31S
jack McAuliffe ... 80. .........310
ITO date the Double-H team has had
hirty-nine errors marked against its
lelders, while the opposing players
ave been afflicted with a total of {
hirty-four misplays. To one who q
loes not understand the Double-H q
ystem, this would appear to be loose G
elding. but it really is only another y
demonstration OF Manager Wedges Il
MOTTO. IL. Pluribus Unum." and it T
means that his players are willing to I
AXE long chances and sacrifice their ,
fielding averages to the end v
hat the team may benefit by their ef i
Drts." 7