The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-05-20
EMERGENCY BATIERS ARE
NOT GREAT HELP TO TEAM
Statistics Prove that Substitute
Batsmen Seldom Secure
Safe Bingles
SOME EXCEPTIONS TO RULE

In one respect the campaign or lJlO
in the major leagues is sure to be "a
record breaker, this respect being i'm
the number of emergency batsmen or
ninch hitters who are called on. In
the first four weeks of the season the
American league managers sent in "A
sub batsmen to clout for men whom
they thought were incapable of doing
anything to help along the scoring
cause, while in the National league
there were 104 men yanlxed from the
bench to hit for alleged weak stickers.
ON lust 33 occasions-1S i'm the senior
league and Is in the younger organ
izaton-did the emergency batsmen
come through with wallops. and few
of the hits made had any effect on the
results of the tussles.
& II long has been debatable ques-
ton whether a man sent in to bat for
a player who has been in the game
for eight innings can do any better
than the athletic whose turn at bat he
takes. From the 1910 statistics one
thing is sure, and that is that the sub
hitter's batting average is going to be
a low one at the end of the year. There
may be exceptions, as "Dode" Crisis OF
the Browns was valiant performer
with the willow when called on to
smite for other athletes two years
ago and so was Ham Hyatt of the Pr
rates last year. Crises and IIyatts
are mighty scarce, however, and the
good emergency batsman is the excep-
ton and not the rule.
No Success for Some.
I'm the American league the sub hit
tiers have amassed a credit of ,242
while in the National league the fig
ures are .1S4. The average for the
two leagues is just .223.
Up to last Monday neither Manager
Duffy of the White Sox nor Griffith
of the Reds had been able TO find
player who. batting for some one else.
was able to produce safety. Grif
has sent i'm sub hitters IL times, and
the best his club has got as a result
has been two bases on balls. Sir
Hugh has a weak hitting set of ath-
etes and when he needs an emer-
gency batsman generally calls on Pitch
er Smith. r. .Paderewski has batted
for some one else twice this year and
has done nothing. Patsy Dougherty
is at present the best of Duffy's sub
swatters. earning this title because he
drew pass when batting for another
man.
Mcclure Best Guesser.
Deacon Jim Mcclure of the Cleve-
land Maps has been the best guesser
this year at picking a man off the
bench to bat for another player The
veteran has sent in ten emergency
smters, four of them making hits, one
drawing a pass and another polling
sacrifice fly. George Perring won
game for the Clevelands in St Louis
on May 1, his hit in the eleventh in
ming bringing I'm the deciding taily'
Another American Lacquer who broke
up game when batting for one of his
mates was Charley Schmidt of the IT,
gers, whose single in the contest OF
May with the White Sox brought In
two runs, just the number NEEDED TO
make it Detroit victory.
"Dode" Crisis and George All-Wrong
stone of the Browns are the American
leaguers who have been called on OFT
cnest to bat for some other plyaer.
Criss was an emergency batsman seven
times in the first four weeks of the
season, got one hit and was purposely
passed on three occasions. Now that
Crisis is a regular, stone will be Man
ager O'Connor's first choice as reiief
batsman.
In the National league the demon
sub swatter Is Joe Ward of the phil
lies. The former Highlander, from !
April IA to May IL inclusive, was yank-
ed from the bench nine times by Man
ager Doom to start something. Not
until May 10 did Joe deliver a safety
and when he did make good his double
Indirectly led to the defeat OF his team.
The Quakers were in the van In the
game in which Ward. batting for Ew-
ing, doubled Earl Moore. who sue
ceeded Long Bob" on the slab, prov
Ing ineffective and losing the lead be-
queathed to him by the former Reu
Leg.