The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-26
UNEXPECTED METHOD
WON FOR ATHLETICS
Mackmen Initiated No One
and Made Their Own Rules
for Batting.
PICTURE SCANDAL NOW
Giants Think Bosses Reneged,
but Photographers Got
Only Three Games.
BY MANHATTAN
he Trbuns

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-There is hardly
baseball fan In the country who Goes
no' hope that the announcement Of Ban
Johnosn that the next years world 9
Championship series will begin October
4, ia true. Cold days are not conducive
either TO good crowds and cold days are
due in October
Another strong argument In favor Of a
more compact schedule ls that both
leagues can finish UP the regular sesson
As general proposition. strong hit
| ung team docs not feel the necessity or
resortlng 70 sacrifice hits 10 send run
and run instead. But during the past
| season the Athlstics the most rama rk-
able hitting club in many years. laid II
down oftener than any other American
league outfit
The Mackmcn have been haralded far
! and Nide as the hest hit-and run team In
the history OF the game. They could well
afford 70 work the hit-aud run over
lime, Tor tne very good reason that Col
Inns. Lapp. Murphy. Baker. MeInnis and
Lord we're all 800 hittsrs. while oidring
mark: But the Athletics did not chuck
the old sacrifice onto the ash heap as a
Thing obsolete, Instead. they pressed the
ay II down affair into service 251
| tNSss- or ten more than any other Ameri-
| can les que club.
Charles Comiskey. who has been a be-
! lever In the sacrifice through thick and
ager. 10 have the While Sox use the
sacrifice whenever the opportunity pre-
sented, and they rid themselves OF 2si
times: New York. lst: Detroit, ISL:
Cleveland. 100; Washington. li9 and ST.
Louis. 1i1
Mackmen Were Original.
The secret Of the Athletics success was
their ability TO mix 'em up With
fhGty -tf4 Ill
stion naturally played the Mackmesi for
this kind OF game most Of the time.
and they crossed them up time and again
by sacrifielng A thing that has proved
worth while for pennant winning team
should be given consideration by the
Statistics Of the National league for
the season Of 1911 show that the Cincn-
natl Reds carried off the high run mark
with twenty-sx tallies, made against
the Boston Rustlers in a nlne-inplng
scores In 1911 than in other recent years
IN Lorty eight games one team scored
Twelve runs or better Three times dur
Ing the season a total OF twepty-nins
runs was made by both teams In q
game,
The hitting all along the line in III.
league was more forcible than for many
years: This is attributed 10 the lively
ball introduced into baseball this year
Taking fifteen hits by one team in
single game as comparison. there wore
almost twice as many smuggling bees In
tho National league in 1911 as there were
IN IN lne year before In seventy-four
The record for the league Is twenty
FIVE hits. made by the Giants against
the Cubs In 1910 That mark was not
three hits against Boston in June. The
Giants best record was eighteen hits
en- TrocI Nay sna rssa. against slaherty Parson.
also made eighteen hits. on sspternbsr
2s. off zaekert and Rodabaush Of ST.
:, Pittsburg made nineteen hits against
the @ Giants on July II, the pitchers being
Wiltse. Ames, and CrandsiI Against
asr Srooslyn B Cincinnati made eighteen hits
in een ano nnihks nne''er Tbsr on O,
games In the National LEAGUE
IN 1911 In which the pitchers shut out
The. record is 1ss shutouts In 1905.
sucker Of Brookiyn. Riehis s Of Of chieasc, iea,
and nd Moore 400 OF Philadelphia each regis
No 70, National League pitcher pitched
pech psrfnsnsd sq%s IN ISL 81 The tsat has NOT
'Iteher since Nap Rucker shut out Bos-
on on September S. 1905. One pitcher
ame anne within within one man OF getting into the
Il Pittsbnrg retired twenty-six Rrooklyn
alters before hit was made The
wenty-seventh man lined out clean
III ana the next man was retired
fidy 0lACeeu luu1ngS.
!. Sixteen innings was the limit for long
Philadelphia and Cincinnati reached
mar mark on May IL. The longest game
which the Giants took part was twelve
niladelphia By three runs TO two
rooklyn lost two fifteen inning games.
eins beaten on June 81 BY Philadelphia
! September q by four runs TO three
here were nftsen Tie games PLAYED in
le National league. ST. Louis made the
ionts took part in one tie and the
rooklyns In four.
There is story going the rounds
ut Norman Elberfeld will be found in
tlants next seaSon as manager Of the
am In that city. Ii Is NOT probable
az Griffith Will need the former High
nder IN Washington next season, and ~
had chance 10 go to q minor ieasu. S
lease.
,r Anoissr he harsh al note u the great world,
llcN OF the Lost Cause recently For
e heeOng moment q, stirred the vale
scandal and then passed on and out.
&C national commission has officially
clared the Giants out OF the moving
Not lie actual films. Of course, for
me nightly in scores or theaters but
~ VIII get nothing for the indoor pre-
inc ndNohdl commission granted NOV
: picture rights or the series to n New
rk concern for $500 After thrss
mes had been played and rain set In
Giants began 70 fgure or cutting into
picture pis. So did the Athletics.
{ the New York team made the formal
mand.
rhe commission then gave out the
&C agreed upon. The plsyers refused
believe that so small a sum had been
"a for set Of films that gave prom
OF earning s15O.O0o. They hinted ~
hidden bonus. Then they refused
pose for the picture mon But the
4 concern did not try 10 take any rrore
lures. The ball piayers could get no
anywhere. Therefore. the ~
duclion OF the series covers only tine
I three Eanies thus endcth another
did chapter In the 1911 book.
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