New-York tribune., 1912-02-18
", PRINCE OF WHACKERS.
Analysis of Cobb's Work with
Bat Shows Great Record.
LED IN TIMELY SAFETIES
Proved One Third Of Detroit
offence-Hartzell in the Van
for the Yankees.

The stronger the acid used to test Ty
Cobbs crown as the king Of hitters the
greater is the reaction. The, newest figures
reveal the fact that T Rsymonds princely
dladem IS just about 100 per cent pure.
Statistics have been compiled to determine
Just who Is the timeliest hitter in the
American League. the man who is there
with the wallop in the pinches and conse-
quen;ly drives in the most runs. And who
leads all the rest? Now. altogether, boys
and girls-Ty Cobb
The best hitter and best base runner In
either league drove in IA runs with the 2+S
hits which he made last season. Since ne
crossed the plate 147 times himself, Ty was
directly responsible for 2s1 of the SSl runs
scored by the Tigers, making Cobb alone
little more than 80 1-S per cent OF the OF
fence OF the whole nine. Ty batted in one
run in each Of 40 contests, two in each OF
e. three in each Of s. four in each of ana
Ave in each of 2. Cobb did his timehest
hitting against the pitchers of the Boston
Red Sox, and found the twirlers OF the
Chicago White Sox the hardest to hit when
there were men on the bases ready 10 gal
Iop home.
The second best hitter in the point OF
view of the timeliness of his safeties was
none other than Tvs old side kick, sam
Crawford, Of the Tigers. The Detroit night
fielder brought home 1877 runs for his team
hut scored only 1o9 himself. so that Ty has
big lead on him so far as total offensive
strength goes ] Franklin Baker. OF the
Athletics, was third in the list, scoring llo
Yuns. followed by Ping Bodie. Of the White
Soy. with l12 and Jim Delehanty, OF the
Tigers with 101.
The leaders for the different teams, pc
sides Cobb for the Detroits, Baker for the
Athletics and Bodie for the White son
were Hartzell, for New York, with 81 runs
Duffy Lewis for the Boston Red SoX, with
81 runs; Joe jackson. for the Cleveland
Maps, with IS runs; Laporte, for the o''
Louis Browns, with Il runs, and Gessler'
for the Washington Senators, with I5 runs
The best team of timely hitters in the
American League would be composed OF
the following players: Coombs, OF Phila'
delphia. pitcher: Stanage. of Detroit catch-
er; McInnes, of Philadelphia. first baSe'
DAlehanty. of Detroit, second base; Baker.
Of Philadelphia, third base: Hartzeh' or
New York. shortstop: Bodie, of Chlcaso'
left field: Cobb, of Detroit. centre helu'
and Crawford. of Detroit right held.
The batters who led the American League
In timely hitting for the last four years
follow: Williams in 1907, 81 runs: Hemphill
IN 1905. AZ runs: Engle in 1909, 79 runs; Cree
in 1910. Is runs None of these reached Ty
Cobb's record Of IA made last season.
Row aartzeu, whose batting average was
7as last season, led Hal Chase's minions in
driving in runs. with a total Of 81 10 his
credit. but little Birdie" Cree was close
behind. with S. Cree however. scored 30
runs himself and had batting average
Of SR He figured In the tallying of lS
runs. while Hartzem celebrated in 15s Jack
Knight was third best timely hitter, driv-
ing in s., runs while Hal Chase was fourth.
with 90 The rest of the players trailed far
behind Hartzeu, Cree. Knight and Chase
formed the main offensive battery Of the
Yankees. driving in or scoring themselves
sOS Of the 6S5 runs tailed by the team dur
ing the season
Tho New York team found the pitchers
Of the St Louis Browns the easiest TO
solve in the pinches, scoring 101 runs off
their deliveries. The Detroit staff offered
almost as little resistance. The Yankees
drove in 90 runs with timely hits while
Hughie Jennings's stars were performing.
The Philadelphia and Washington twirlers
pitched the tightest ball against the Yam
KEGS. 20 runs apiece being the record of
the STATS of these two teams
Hartzen took a particular delight in
hammering the offerings of his former
teammates on the ST. Louis Browns when
hits meant runs, driving In % runs of
Bobby Wallace's talent Detroit too, was
popular with Roy, while Chicago. Phils-
delphia and Washington offered decided
difficulties. All pitchers looked just about
alike TO Birdie" Cree in the pinches, and
his record was pretty even He had little
preference for the Chicago and Cleveland
brand. Birdie" led the team in hitting
the stars of Connie Macks nine Knight
had an even record like Cree, with lean
ing toward st. Louis and Boston, while
Chase, like Hartzell, preferred Detroit and
St Louis.
The number of runs batted in by each
member Of the Yankees follows: