The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-12-26
81 SEBALL FIGURES
OF MUCH INTEREST
Slowing What a Number Of
Former Major League
Players Did.

CHICAGO, Dee 1Ss-Former ma
jor league baseball players stand
out prom nently among the leading
pltchersland Aolders Of the American
Association, according to the official
averages Tor the season. of 1912, is
sued today by Thomas M. Giving
ton, president OF the organization, 3
Two former Cleveland pitchers,
Kranse ana FalEenberg. OF Toledo,
head the pitching list. Krauses
name appears first with thirteen vic
torres and four defeats, gyng him
an average. OF ,76O. 1t was his re-
markab showing with Toledo which
caused him to be returned to Cleye-
land in mid-season, HIS secaad en-
trance TO the major league was
marked by string of defeats. how
ever. Although Falkenberg is
named second on the offical list, he
was the real league leader, with
twenty-five victories sad eight de-
ieats, a percentage OF 1853. Falken.
berg was with Washington before he
went to Cleveland. This was "Cys"
first year in the minors since he left
the american League.
Packard, q Columbus pitcher, sur-
fered the same number of defeats as
Falkenberg but won one less SO he
finished third With mark of $50.
Rieger, of st. Paul, lead the
pitchers in fielding, having clean
record in twenty-five games He ac-
copied fifty-one chances. RUDE
Waddell's name foots the list. He
fielded .s16..
Among the first basemen, Jones,
Of Milwaukee, the old American
league player, took first honors,
making caly twenty-six errors in
80 games and establishing per-
centage of 1854. Delahanty, OF
Minneapolis, set a mark Of .995 bua
he participated in only tweaty-onc
games.
Otto Williams, who has been in
the association for many years, top
ped the second basemea with mark
Of $40 for las games. Rockenfield,
of Kansas City who will be seen in
the Western League this year, made
percentage of $40, but he was in
only twenty-eight games.
Eddie Lennox, who started the
season with the Chicago Nationals,
went to Louisville and finished in
Kansas City, AMI le'ded .955 at third
base in eighty-six games. Wester-
I'll, of indianapolis, set mark of
.96S in nineteen games.
At shortstop McKechnie, OF st.
Paul, felded $40 in forty-one games
and was listed frat. Beaumiller, OF
Louisville, ranked fourth officially,
but n 1OS games he made a mark
of 1913. Corriden, who Kansas City
sold to Detroit and who recently was
sold to Cincinnati in the Tinker
deal for $4,000, felded only .904.
Johns, of Columbus, accepted
iifty-eight chances in the outHeld
without an error and obtained first
on the list Burns, of Toledo, how
ever, accepted 3S7 chances and set
4 mark OF .97S. so he probably
should be regarded as the leading
outfie'der.
Fielding honors in the catching
department belong to Owens, who
worked behind the bat last season
for Minneapolis. In 1876 games he
made only fourteen errors setting a
mark OF .gS3. Ray sschalk, who
came to the Chicago Americans from
Milwaukee, made seven errors in
eighty games, and is credited with
a percentage OF .sS5.
The indianapolis club iielded $50
as team and led the league, max
ing il evident that they were weak
in the batting department e'se they
might have finished higher up in
the pennsnt race. Other teams
flelded as follows:
Columbus $50, Toledo $50, Min
neapolis s951, st. Panl .951, Louis
vile .95n, Kansas City ,94S and
Milwaukee .947.