The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-29
-FOUR POINTS AHEAD
Magee of Ouakers Leads
The National League
Batsmen
CAMPBELL GOOD SECOND
Lajoie In Front In American League
With Ty Cobb Nine Points in Rear
Philippe First Among Box Artists
with Cole of Chicago Second.

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Philippe First Among Box Artists
with Cole of Chicago Second.
Sherwood Magee of the Quakers
leads the National League batsmen at
The opening of the week with per-
centage of 1886, but Campbell of the
Pirates is close second and only four
points behind.
The fact that Campbell will not
have been $50 times at bat for the sea-
sons work excludes him as posi-
Ole candidate for the auto. Since he
took Fred Clarke's place on the Pitts
burg team few weeks ago Campbell
has done exceptional work at the bat
and in the field and his membership
on the Pirate team is assured for next
year. Clarke is particularly proud
of his understudy and predicts a
brilliant season for him next year.
Snodgrass of the Giants is continu-
ally tumblng and last week he was
counted out of the race. He will,
however, undoubtedly finish among
the honor men.
Frank Chances Cubs with few ex-
sceptions are batting in midsummer
style Tinker and Hoffman are above
the 800 mark, and Chance and
Schlute of the other regulars appear
on the weeks list. Schultz and Tink-
er have done excellent work of late.
Although Sheckard and Archer do not
appear on the list they have secured
this regularly in the past three weeks.
Archer has proven an able substitute
TO Chance on first base.
In the American League batting av
erages Lajoie leads Ty Cobb nine
points. If the representative of the
Tigers hopes to have any chance Of
winning the auto he will have to do
some batting this week or be counted
out of the race. A week ago only two
points separated the pair. Rain and
an open date kept the Tigers from
playing their full quota of games last
week, while Cleveland was more for
tunate. In the games last week La
joie made II hits and widened the
margin between him and Cobb.
Speaker is still dangerous Compel
itor and any letup by his rivals will
prove possibly fatal to them.
Eddie Collins of the Athletics kept
up his good work with the stick last
week but his late start has kept him
from fighting with the three leaders.
His other two teammates, Murphy and
Oldring, still hold up above the 300
mark.
The defeat of Cole, star pitcher o:
the Cubs, at the hands of the New
York Giants last week cost him first
place in the standing of the pitchers
of the National League. Philippe, the
hero of many grueling contests, sup
planted him and it would not be at all
surprising if the Pittsburger finish ed
ahead of the young Chicago artist.
Philippe won game last week from
the Phillies.
Jack Pfiester got back into the game
last week after a long absence and
defeated the Giants with ease. He
ousted Otis Crandall from third place,
as the latter lost game to the St.
Louis Cardinals. Another Cub pitch
er who seems to be rounding into
winning form is Overall and he has
been successful of late Brown and
Ruelbach, however, seem to have diff
1iculty in getting runs, but possibly
they are loafing a bit, as the pennant
is cinched. Undoubtedly they are
saving their arms for the crucial Sc
ries ahead.
young man with funny name oc-
cupies the cellar position this week.
He is Zmich, the high-priced st.
Louis pitcher and he has lost five in
a row with nary victory.
In the American League no change
was made in the standing of Bender
and Coombs of the Athletics last
week. Coombs alone pitched a
game. He held Cleveland to no runs
but Fanwell of the Maps was equally
as successful. Bender is not being
worked by the astute Connie Mack
but is being reserved for the worlds
series.
Ford was the only New York pitch
er to land a victory last week. The
Others received rough handling by the
Browns and the White SoX.
Eddie Karger dropped a close
game to Detroit Saturday and wa:
jumped by number of pitchers now
standing number eight on the list O
boxmen. The Red SoX pitchers have
met with but little success in thu
West, having found the White So'
and Browns tough customers.
UnjustiGed Criticism.
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