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Eddie Collins is close behind him in
second place, and Mack has Baker
running fourth among the first 10 best
run getters, n. e Harry Hooper. the
only other &C. q the list, stands ninth.
In Collins Nae. has the third best
base stealer in the league and the
eighth best in Frank Baker while
Iris Speaker is the only BOstOnian
who gets in the list of the first 10.
He ranks fifth.
Mack has three regulars hitting $40
or better. They are McInnis, Baker
and Collins. who follow Cobb. Speaker
and Jackson in a row among the big
Founders of the American circuit
Aside from the wonderful Speaker,
the 800 hitters, and his mark is 81.
Cady, a recruit catcher. has hit slightly
better than 300 in 20 games. However,
the futility of individual hitters seems
to be demonstrated by the Cleveland
club. which has four regulars hitting
wen over 800 but which is nowhere in
the race
Murphy, a 800 hitter, is lost to the
Athletics, but MaggeTt, Strunk and
RUDE Oldring all have better marks
than Duffy Lewis or Harry Hooper,
and even BrIS Lord has very slight
margin on Hooper. Jack Lapp gives
the Mack crowd greater hitting
strength than CarriSan does the SOX,
while Wagner has only about four
points in pounding on Jack Barry.
Boston is a great distance hitting
club leading the American league ia.
extra base sInashes, but here again the
athletics are close up. The BOstonians
are the greatest tWobase hitters in
either league, having made 143 blows
OF that variety against 129 for the
Athletics, and they lead the american
league in home runs. with 20. The
Athletics have Is The circuit clout
is not as frequent in the American
this year as in the National. where the
Giants now have "a hOmers. and four
other clubs have made more than the
Boston record.
The Athletics lead the American
league, and all clubs in the ma Ors out
side of Pittsburg. in thrceba ggers. with
a total of Sc; they have hit for grand
total of sos extra bases, against Bos-
tons 343, which mark is exceeded in
the big leagues BY Pittsburg and
equaled by the Chicago Cubs.
Senators Have Good Chance.
On club figures Washington doesn't
make much OF showing, get it must
be conceded that Washington still has
q strong chance 1t is hitting -25S.
ranking sixth among the American
league clubs, and it stands fifth in
fielding. 1t has hit for 290 extra bases,
and it must be, remembered that 1t
carries three regulars hitting above
500, including one of the first 10 lead
ing run getters and the champion of
all the base stealers-Clyde Milan
Incidentally, it possesses one of the
four great rishthand pitchers in the
So. after all. the dope is just natur-
ally dope The Giants have an apDar-
emily secure lead in the National
league, and yet it tops Pittsburg only
a few points in club hitting and is a
bad last in fielding. 1t is third among
the distance hitting clubs of the league,
but it outelasses the land in base run
ming, having six of the best base steal
ers, TO say nothing of three of the 10
leading run getters and three 800 hit
tiers in the regular line
There is a slight similarity in the
Red SoN-Athletic systems, in that they
both favor the socalled old army
game of sacrificing. The Athletics
have made 1877 sacrifice hits and the
SOx 12O- No club in the National
league approaches either figure in that
respect, although the SoX sacrifices are
exceeded by Chicago and tied by two
other American league clubs.