The Washington times., 1910-08-02
PRESENT ATHLETICS
COMPARED WITH 1905
Are Stronger With Possible
Exception of Pitchers.
Much Better BatteTS.

without a go batter or the team. the
Athletics won the American League
championship IN 1893.
With three men sticking over the high
wate- mark tits wear the 1Iackmen and
Jhe present seasons penuant do not
seem far removed. TO. because Of the
cloutinS Of this tho Of Individuals. but
because Of the general excellence OF the
Philadelphia -ribe-
II all his wears Of flag hunting General
8IcGilIicuddy probably never had a filter
club than now. His champion aggreGa-
ton Of 1902 contained larger lot of bail
singers verz good players in every de-
parJmeut. aid q well BALANCED. pitching
staff Of which George Edward CReuben)
Naddeu was the star But considering
the progress OF baseball within tire past
eight summers il is a question If the
Athletics of 'qZ can take even rank with
the Athletics or -.
Mack IN his first success fin the Amer
loan L-aEEe. had Harry Davis ou FIRST,
Lave cross az third. and ilrIzeI Dave
tuitz ana socks SeEIold iu tHe outfeId.
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.-l4 the cale--lTie- ard 5'lc PITCHING bat
talon consisted 90 WaEGeU- Plank.
Hastings, Wilson and Mitchell
Great Combination IN 1902.
A great c 1binatiou these men made
Monte Cross was the ONLY weak hitter
outside Of the pitchers. Tovsy HartzeI
was the best hass steaIar in the league.
and Lave Cross was 9Th best batter
DaTy F'-lcz was leading r-l -etrer- and
Wa6deU. Plank and Hastings were way
above par En- their pitching
in 1875 Mack controlled rrz-rf-rTT- the
same team with some rev blood 10 fin
out Fllltz. Hastings WILSON and Mitch
ell were the only ones TO leave. The
added material comprised Bender.
Coaklcy. Henley and DyEerr pitchers
Lord and Hoffman. center field and
KNIGHT. shortsrop- IN I5E Athletics we've
second i1 team batting and tied for third
tieee li neiainc -oE- tvirlars did
E-lcEaiI erlEiEg-CCzETe- walden
Plank. and Bender.
Compared collectively lIark-z team
IN ~ was superior 90 -Ee one or 1875
i-'-E the crosses had gone back and
couple or o--ers slipped q coz some
where Judged alone. tho pitching rr7rr
vas better than three years previous
Better Than IN ZOOS.
Today's Es-rs5u1eu are a Hafr a class
higher than those Of 1919. the pitchers.
taken all together, excepted Plank IS
not as good as he was AT least, he
has not shown it get. II IS very possible
that he may have as GOOD a record az
the contamination of the race. Eo7-eve-.
There IS no Wad6eL now. nor is there
an Andy Cuaklc-. Bender is having
more success this season than iu 'a5.
COMBS IS partially fIia= CoakIey's
shoes, and Morgan is doing toIera6Iy
well There are Erausc. DyEert and At
kiHs in reserve
Banker is far ahead OF Lave Cross
IS d third baseuau- And Danny lIur-
ply never was Collins equal as "a Sec
eud SECEer, al things being equal Bar
~ IS almost the equal al Monte Cross
AT short Davis. at first. has retro
graded. Of course, but he IS not far be-
EluG his 1913 form DllrIu-- In center
IS batting harder than Danny Ef11-
man Lord is better rE-oEer and
batter than Torsy H1r-Zet- bG- a weak
er base runner And the eZ-Nap IS
uu~h improved over what He was iu 05-
Lurply- In right is proving acceptable.
and he Is meeting the BAH with more
surety than did Socks SasDlld-
Behind the bat are Paddy livingston
John Lapp- and Ira Thomas SclrCl--au-
EcS- was superior 90 any ~ the three
in 1898. bun Thomas has something ON
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