The Washington times., 1911-05-15
More Than Three Thousand
Batsmen Up Last
Week.
PUT-OUTS NUMBER
NINETEEN HUNDRED
Petworth Best Among Six Teams
Without an Error for
Six Days.

While all the different amateur base
ball leagues have not played the same
number of games, comparative scores
and averages show exactly what was
doing on the diamonds during the past
week
Many good close contests were played
There were eight shut-outs, nine games
won by one run, and two ended with the
score tie.
In all 3,027 batsmen faced pitchers and
656 were successful in landing safe
drives. which gives them a batting
percentage of .217.
In 40 games played 539 runs were scared.
There were 1856 put-outs, $50 assists,
and 346 errors, giving a fielding aver
age of .SS9. Last week the batting aver
age was $50 and fielding .S52, which,
combined with last weeks results, Civ
Ing a grand batting figure of .234, and
fielding average of 81.
Six Errorless Teams.
Only two teams were able to go
through a game during the first week
without an error. Six teams performed
the feat last week, Petworth carrying
on the honors in two such contests
OtherS which played perfect fielding
games were Agriculture, American Sc
curlty and Trust, Cornell, Ingram, and
Navy.
Teams making one error during the
opening week numbered six, while seven
CLUBS accomplished that record last
Week-Sewage Pumping Station three
Times and the Commissioners twice
SioySlus' Congressionals, Eastern A. c.,
Ninth, and Southland also qualified in
this class. There was some fast field
ing, Manhattan pulling off a triple play
against Kendall, HERMAN to DonneIly,
10 Dampier. OF double plays, forty
were recorded.
Two more pitchers succeeded in twirl
ing no-hit games, Ryan, of Postoffice.
holding Navy hitless, while Rawlings. of
american Security, did likewise against
District National. Only two one-hit
games. both in the Commercial League,
were seen, as compared with five the
opening week, Thompson, of c. & =
and hummer, of Moses, turning the
trick. Again, in the preceding week
Sreen, Huettner, Smith, and Dore
Many three and four hit games were
PITCHED, which accounts for the reduced
batting percentage.
Seven Records Perfect.
Players batting three or more times in
q game having a perfect record num-
bered seven. Lemcric, of St Stephen.
with four Safe hits, leads the sluggers.
Lawrence. n. NJ. S; Ryon and Taylor,
OF Chloh station: NandcrlIp. of In
gram; Rawlings, of c. x F.. and Yoho,
OF \. NJ. S. landed three safe hits out
OF as many times at bat
Exactly S,U27 batters faced the pitch
ers, 6Oi falling victims by the strike-out
route. Hummer and OEle tied for high
record, each tanning seventeen bats
men. Claude Birch. of HamIine, fol-
lowed with fifteen. two of which did not
count by reason Of the game being
called. Gifts of twirlers about equal
the first week S record
While 800 bases on balls and thirty
seven hit batsmen We're hung Up during
the first week 2SS free passes and fifty
nine hit batSmen We're last weeks fig
ureS.
Sacrifice hitting seems o be on the in
crease, fifty-fCur L, ng made, as COM
pared with forUy-four the preceding
week. The warm weather no doubt
worked to good advantage on the re-
ceivers' wings, as base thefts were
checked in some degree; 343 was the
total the first week and 325 last week
Petworth, of the Suburban League,
leads all the teams in club fielding, hav-
ing made but three errors in four games |
But three men scored.