The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-25
Murnane Says Iris Speaker
Is Worlds Best Ball Player
BIZ T. n. Murnane.

er. The good women see the rich
picking for the fall games vanish
ing. Players. especially veteran
pitchers who have fallen off in eff
fectiveness, come in for severe
criticism. So sure were the mem
bers OF families that the same rich
picking of two seasons would he
repeated for the third time, that
this big coin at the close OF the
season was doubly welcome as the
salaries paid the Quaker players
has always been modest.
II DDIE COLLINS'S estimate Of
II the baseball writer's of Bos
ton displayed his ignorance.
There is no city in the game where
players receive a more hearty sup
port from the press. aud naturally
the fans follow the baseball writer's.
Teams out for the honors never fall
down in Boston, The Boston play
ers are pulling together. and as
yet they have not tasted the rich
financial fruit from q Usrll-s sy;es,. .
The piavers are not displaying their
inside knowledge ~ writing letters
for newspapers If Mr., Collins has
an idea thai the Red Sox will blow
this fall, the idea comes SIMPLY
with wish. for their is no indlca-
tion. In fact. the Bostops have
won their position by good base
ball.
II was found that the members
of the Quaker team had pcrves and
could be made to worry. The Red
Sox met them on their own grounds
and won the verdict.
The Boston Red Sox arc playing
good ball and the reasons arc about
as follows; They can hit and field,
as the last weekly record showed
they led in these two departments
as we'll AS having record for long
drives. For the last two years the
Athletics held The record for extra
base hits. The Tigers bad it their
own WAY for several seasons. In
fact, it's rare thing to see- ball
team without three or four long
drives. No club can show as good
record this year as the Boston
Red Sox, and right here is where
they have been outpointiug all
corners.
TN Lewis. Speaker and Hooper,
l. Boston has the most remarkable
sll.rouud out6cld connected With
the game. Larry Gardner is today
the best third baseman in the pro-
fessiou. and what is better, grand
batsman and long driver. Heinie
Wagner is playing ball 20 per cent
stronger than ever and hitting at
.e75 clip. Yerkes has improved
until he is fine fielding second
basemnp and smooth hitter-
Jake Stahl is playing grand
game at first. and improving In his
biting as the seasons drags ont,
The club has hno staff of catch
ere, Joe Wood has outplayed any
thing in the business this season,
while five other men are far above
the average, The Red Sox can win
with fairly good boxmen' The team
can hif and make runs.
The men have worked together
under the management Of Jake
StahI. No team of players ever
worked moro earnestly for a man
aper, cannot soc any sign of the
men worrying, and / have been
With thsm most Of the time this
season.
The team is bound to lose game
TO weak clubs. but then again turn
tables on the more pretentious
teams, for tho Red Sox play their
very best ball when pressed by one
OF the. leading clubs,
In the West this season they had
81 games and won 90, showing the
Boston team to be a good road
club. They have downed the
world IS champions in 10 out OF Is
games played.
In iris Speaker tho team has
this year the most remarkable ball
plaver in the business today. He
Is 10 the Boston club what Wagner
has boon TO Pittsburg and what Ty
Cobb has been TO Detroit. The
positiou in which the Red Sox
found themselves the middle or Au-
gust was won by clean ball play
inug and they can keep up the
Same pace 70 the end