Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-28
EAST IS EVEN WITH WEST IN
FIRST INTERSECTIONAL SERIES
White Sox and Giants Had Remarkably Sue
cessfm Trips and Look Like
Real Leaders.

Sox climbed from third to second place
and the Washingtons fell from second to
| third. The Athletics. Detroits and Cleve-
LANDS SeeSawed between the first and sec
ond divisions and the Highlanders and
| Browns snapped places In the National
/ League there was a good deal of moving
up and down among the last four; the
Cubs and Pirates ran a neck and neck
| race for possession of third place, and
| the Giants ousted the Reds from the lead.
| Recent figures of batting. base running.
| fielding and pitching, the four cardinal
elements of base ball, show a striking
/ consistency with the positions of some OF
| the big league clubs, those at the top or
near 1t, but state Of affairs not APP
picable to all. For instance. in the
| American League the White Sox, the
| leaders. rank first in team batting ac-
cording to these recent unofficial figures
and also rank first in team fielding and
pitching. They rank fourth in base run
ming. but rank in three different depart
| ments out of four is quite sufficient to
| account for their being in the lead.
| 1t IS an easier matter to get at the
| fielding, batting and base running figures
| for the purpose mentioned than for the
| pitching rank. The percentages in team
batting and fielding speak for themselves
and the base running rating comes from
the simple process of taking the total
! steals for each team. Such elements as
team play cannot be portrayed in figures.
The pitching rank was arrived at by rat
| ing each pitcher l and so on down for
| the position he occupied in percentage OF
games won. Then the figures denot .ng
each pitchers individual rank were added
together in the manner pursued in fgur-
ing the team winner of cross-country
run. Dividing the total by the number
| of pitchers involved. one finds the average
rank of the pitchers of each team. This
method found the White Sox pitchers
with the smallest result, and therefore in
| the lead.
Adding together the rank of the White
Sox in the four departments of the game
| No. / in batting. fielding and pitching
and No. in base running-and dividing
! the result by 4 gave a smaller dividend
| for the White Sox than for any rival
team, and therefore placed them first in
| the four departments considered as a
whole. The general rank OF the other
| teams was follows: Athletics Bostons
| each second, Washingtons fourth. De-
! troits fifth New Gorks sixth and st.
Louis and Cleveland each seventh.
! 1t will be noticed that aside from the
| leaders the standings arrived at by this
| process are sometimes far from con-
sistent with the actual standing of va
| rious clubs. The Athletics. who rank
second. are really sixth. Yet despite the
| latter fact they are second in team bat
| ting, second in team fielding, fifth in base
| running and fourth in pitching.
The Red Sox who divide second place
with the Athletics in general rank. are
| third in team batting. seventh in base
running, third i'm team fielding and second
(; i'm pitching. 1t is interesting to see how
good and Indifferent work in the four
| departments mix together to fix the gen.
| eral or average rank found by consider
| ing the four departments together. Pitch
| ing it will be seen, helps the Bostons 10
| a high rank.
The Detroits are fourth in batting. first
! in base running. eighth in fielding and
sixth in pitching. The Washingtons are
| eighth in batting. second in base running
"a department i'm which they have inn
proved greatly under Grifith-fourth in
! fielding and third in pitching. Adding 2.
| .. and 3 together makes IL, which d.
vided by gives a result OF AZ. divi-
dend which Is fourth best among the
dividends obtained for the other teams by
the same process. The New Yorks
sixth in batting, third in base running.
seventh in fielding and fifth in pitching.
| The Clevelands are fifth i'm batting.
eighth I'm base running, fifth in fielding
and eighth in pitching. st. Louis is sew
enth in batting. sixth in base running
and fielding and seventh in pitching.