Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-06
GAMES WON ON ROAD
Athletics Lead League in VIC
tories Scored Abroad.
WASHINGTON WAS SIXTH
Pennant Winners Have Always
Played as Well on Foreign Dia-
monds as Their Own.

AS base pail Seasons come anu 81 IL
becomes more and more apparent that IL
a team wants to be a pennant contender
it has to be almost, if not equally. as
strong on the road as at home.
In the early days of base bali ii was
generally thought and also admitted by
many base ball authorities that the team
playing at home had shade of the adj
vantage for winning. Not much for
the cheering and roofing for the home
team, but let it be generally known
that in those rare old. fair old DAYS of
the game the visiting team was not al
ways accorded the gloved hand When call
ing upon its neighbours in the base ball
| world. The mailed fist was more likely
to be it's fare.
The Mallet Crew.
The bleacherites of score of years
ago. aided and abetted in their misdongs
by such past masters of hecklinS as
'Muggsy' McGraw. Hughey Jennings.
Jack O'Connor. Patsy" Tebeau ct al.
stopped little short of murder in their
endeavors to see victory perched OH the
triumphant banners of the valiant heroes.
The experience of the Philadelphia -Ath-
letics the past two seasons has gone far
-
thoughts still exist, to the fairness
with which team is treated when play
ing on the road.
The Athletics in 1909 won more games
when away from home than any other
American League team. While they did
not win the pennant that year, they did
finish in second place.
Athletics Good on Road.
In the season just closed the Athletics
duplicated their work of 1909, leading the
league in victories away from home. Out
of the 1u2 games won by them. which in
itself is an American League record, II
games were won abroad. Forty-fiye
games out of a possible "a. three of their
a way-from-home games having been post
roned. Just think. an average of IL $
when playing on foreign grounds. They
found Boston and st. Louis the easiest
picking when visiting. taking nine games
each from them.
Detroit. as i'm 1909. was second when
ii came to winning while visiting, win
ming little over half of it's games, -
out of &C. ST. Louis was also the Tigers
meat, winning the same amount as the
Athletics from them.
Yanks Follow Tigers.
New York was third in the globe-trot-
ting events, getting IS victories out of
- games. Washington was the eaS:ezt
for the iiigblanders, dropping 5 games
10 them.
Cleveland. in spite of its lowly posi-
ton in the race. showed Itself a fairly
good road team. being fourth in the vic
tories won en- route. They won -, oi,t o.
a. games on the road tor an average of
4l6. St Louis was again the goat when
the Mans came to town, dropping their
usual nine. the same as to Phiadclph,,
and Detroit.
Ii Boston had shown little more class
on the road it probably would have
shown up better in the race IT won
only II out Of Is games, St Louis and
Washington being the easiest for them.
getting seven apiece from them
The ''Also Rams
washington was sixth, with Is victo-
RES out of - chances: while travelling.
the Chicago White Sox giving il their
most cordial reception in the shane of
seven games
Chicago was seventh. winning - out of
~ games. 1t found the Cleveland team
the easiest to defeat when making calls
st. Louis has the same position in win
ming games abroad as ii had in the pen
nant race-last. 1t won II out of a.
games played away from home, Chicago
and Detroit being the most liberal to it.
each losing five games.