The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
Giant Infielders Hitting
New York infield against Alexan-
Chance for Marquard

A glance at the figures shows that .Stahl loses 20 per cent of his effect iveness when pitted against the top notch right handlers of his circuit Is only about one-half as good against walsh as he is when facing the other right hand pitchers, and bats It. tie better against the southpaws than he does gainst Walsh.
 If Marauard and Tesreau are as strong as their friends claim 1t would appear that hard times are just ahead of the big Boston manager.
 Merkle bats .35S against the National league selected corps of right handlers, Alexander Camnitz, Fromme and Richie, as against .307 on the season, loss of approximately 15 per cent.
 He improves trifle when facing pitcher of Hendrix's style, but though a right hand batsman he finds the southpaws hard to fathom and falls to the comparatively low mark of .231. He has much the best of his rival, the Boston manager, on this showing.
 At second base the difference is more markedly in favor of New York than in the case of Stahl and Merkle. Yerkes hits PA for the season. .1S9 against the Johnson type of twirlers, .195 when facing Walsh, but enjoys good days when the lefthanders appear as his .291 demonstrates.
 Doyle, the high gun of the New York sauard, has reached the .333 mark on the season He finds Alexander, Cam nitz and company somewhat harder than the ordinary pitcher, and his av- craze against these drops to .267. He enjoys his meetings with Hendrix and swats the leather at a 1850 clip, but not until he meets his own kind, the pirt siders, does he strike his top speed. 400 is nice hitting and 1t re- mains to be seen how far Ray Collins can cut that mark, if any.
 Wagner and Fletcher are very close together on their seasons work, the former having mark of .260 and the latter .262.
 The Red Sox shortstop against the first group of pitchers maintains his regular stride with .25s. He finds the splitter a puzzle, as .167 indicates, but when he meets the lefthanded twirler he speeds along at .327 clip.
 The high class twirlers seem to pug gle Fletcher more than any man on either squard. While getting the very respectable mark of .263 on the sea Cons work he drops to PIT against the good curver artists; .067when he meets Hentrix's type or pitching, ana redches 254 against Fucker, Robinson, Benton and Sallee. These figures are all be- low his mark for the season, and in- dicate that he Is most successful when batting the kind of curves he will not see during world series week.
 Gardner Good Hitter
 Gardner leads the Red Sox infielders in hitting and is the only man, except Speaker, on the team batting better than 300. His mark as shown is .313 That he finds 1t much more difficult to negotiate the tough going Is shown by the tables printed above. .284 against the group. .240 when facing hls fellow southpaws and s.1S0 against the Ameri- can league spitball king. leads one to think that he may experience some trouble next week in cracking out the long drives that have given him rep utation this season as dangerous man in pinch.
 On the contrary. Herzog finds it just as easy to hit the good pitchers as the lieved While batting 257 for the sea- hand cracks, goes to .293 against the southpaws and gorges himself with hits when he meets the moist ball to the extent of .313
 It would appear that as whole the New York inheld Is about Is per cent stronger with the stick than Boston, and very much more than that on the bAses. always remembering that the two squads of pitchers are of the same ealibre.