The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-02
Figures Show
 Giants Best McGraw'S Men Stood Well in All Departments of
 Game EARNED THEIR PENNANT Polo Gr0unders Stole Sixty-Four More Bases Than Their
 Nearest Riva:s

III IoOklng over the statistics or the National Baseball League for 1911 it is more and more apparent that the Giants victory was due to no acci-
 dental circumstances but was honestly
 won. New York led the National Lea
 que in club batting, finishing five
 points ahead of Boston, its nearest
 rival. Chicago was the only team to score more runs during the season, and the Cubs margin over the Polo Grounders was but a single tally. Bos-
 ton led the league in base hits, with Cincinnati second and New York third. In stolen bases the Giants led the Reds, who were their closest rivals, by sixty-four purloined sacks.
 Meyers, Doyle and Fletcher were the only Gothamites who hit above | 300. while Boston and Pittsburgh each
 had five, and Chicago, Philadelphia,
 Brooklyn and Cincinnati had two play CTS who batted above the coveted
 mark. Steve Evans of St. Louis fail cd to get into the 300 class by a single percentage point. Meyers came very near leading the league in bat
 ting. The Chief was but a few points
 behind Wagner, and if he had not
 had to work so hard toward the end
 of the season he might have over-
 hauled the Flying Dutchman. If Mey- CTS had finished first he would have
 been the first New Yorker to be cham pion batsman of the league since 1885.
 when Connor led the older organiza- tion with a mark Of .371.
 Twice during the season the Giants made eighteen hits in single games. The first occasion was against Boston on May 6, and the second time against Brooklyn on Oct 9. On Aug g, Me- Graw's men secured seventeen hits from the combined offering of Reul- bach, Richter and Mcintyre, of Chi cago. Twice the team secured six teen hits, and three times fifteen hits. Turning the silver lining in and look ing at the cloud, the Pirates made nineteen hits off Wiltse, Ames and Crandall on July Il, and the Cubs found Crandall, Raymond and Mar quard for fifteen hits on May Il. New York played one twelve-inning game
 two eleven, and two ten-inning con- tests and one tie game during the season. sss--e
 New York's s pitchers show up we'll in the records. McGraws men white- washed their opponents nineteen times last season, and as only ninety-twO contests were shutouts in the National League during the year, this means that the New York boxmen pitched over one1f1fth of the games where no score was made. Mathewson shut out
 Philadelphia twice, Boston twice and Brooklyn once. Marquard handed Chicago one goose egg, Philadelphia one and St. Louis three. Twice St.. Louis and once Cincinnati and Pitts
 burg failed to get a tally off WiItse. Raymond held Brooklyn scoreless on two occasions. Crandall shut out Cin- cinnati and St. Louis, and Ames pitch | ed a game against the Cubs in which the plate bore no imprint of a Chica- go. To sum up, the Giants shut out St. Louis six times, Philadelphia and Brooklyn each three times, Chicago, Cincinnati and Boston twice apiece,
 and Pittsburgh once
 | New York was itself held without
 score on six occasions. The Giants were shut out by Earl Moore of Phila- delphia twice, Chalmers of Philadel- phia once, Rucker of Brooklyn once, Ragon> of Brooklyn once. and once by
 Richie of Chicago. Chicago was white washed nine times during the season and Pittsburgh ten times, Alexander of the Phillies and Babe Adams of the Pirates led the league in this de- partment, each of them having seven shut-outs to his credit
 There were no games in the older ! major organization throughout the season in which a team did not make hit, but Marquard was among the 1 ten pitchers who held their opponents to a single safety, the Rube perform | ing the feat against Philadelphia on
 Sept 1. There were but seventeen two-hft games during the year and New York pitchers were the heroes of eight of them. Marquard allowed Gin cinnati, Pittsburgh and St. Louis but | two hits; Wiltse twice pitched two- | hit game against St. Louis, and held the Pirates to a pair of safeties, one of which was a scratch, and Mathew son let down Cincinnati and St. Louis with but two safeties. Raymond, Ames and Mathewson all pitched l three-hit games.
 | During the season the Brides of Gotham won their series from every club except Chicago, and they split even with the Cubs. Theirs was a well-earned victory, and they finally carried off the pennant simply be- cause they played the best and most consistent ball.