The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-12-26
&, aEBAL,L FIGURES
OF MUCH -IlY7 ERR ST
Showing What a Number of
Former Major Eeagne
Players Did.

CEdc4G9, Dec Former ma
jor leagnc baseball players stand
ouc prom nently among the leading
pttehersland aaldSrS Of the american
Association, accord.as To the official
averages FOR tho season. OF 1872. is
sued today by Thomas M Oh wing
ten. president 81 the organisation.
Two former Cleveland pitchers.
Kranae ana F6lGenberg, OF Toledo.
head the pitchtag list. IIrause.s
name appears frsr with thirteen VIC
torres and four defeats. g wig him
am average Of $50. It was his re-
markab showing with Toledo which
caused him 10 be returned 10 Cleve-
Land in mid-seasou His sscaad en-
trance to the major league was
married bg string of defeats, how
ever Although Talkenberg Is
named second on tho Official list, he
was the real league leader, with
twenty-five victories sad eight de-
feats, percentage Of .75S. Falken.
berg was with washington before he
went TO Cleveland, This was "Cy's"
first year in the minors since he left
the American League.
Packard, a Columbus pitcher, SUI.
fered the same number OF defeats as
FaIkcnberg but won one less SO he
finished third with mark OF 100.
Rieger, of St. Paul, lead The
pitchers in fielding, having a clear
record in twenty-five games. He &c
cepted fHty-one chances. Rub,
Waddeli's name foots the list. HI
fielded SIG.
Among the first basemen, Jones
or milwaukee,, the old American
league player. took first honors
making c1ly twenty-six errors ii
100 games anu establishing PEI
centage of 1881. Delahauty, q
Minneapolis. set mark Of .995 bu;
he participated in only twaaty-on'
games
Otto Williams, vino has been ii
the association for many years. top
ped the second abaseme1 with mari
81 a70 Tor AS games .Rockenfeld
o Kansns City, who Will be seen ii
the Western League this year, made
a percentage of .979, but he was il
only twenty-eight games.
Eddie Lennon, who started tht
seasca with the Chicago Nationals
went 10 Louisville and finished ia
Kansas city, anl Ge'dcd .955 at third
base in eighty-six games. Wester-
2il q indianapolis. set a mark Of
96s in nineteen games.
At shortstop MclSechnie. Of st
Paul. iielded .9IG il forty-one games
ana was listed frat. Beaumiller, o.
Louisville. ranked fourth officially.
but ii lO3ogames he made mark
Of 9S3. Corriden. who Kansas City
sold to Detroit and who recently was
sold to Cincinnati in the Tinker
deal Tor $4,000, felded only .904.
Johns, OF Columbus accepted
iiity-eignt chances in the outfeld
without an error and obtained first
on the list Burns, Of Toledo, how
ever. accepted SS7 chances and set
mark ul 979, so he probably
should be regarded as the leading
outHe'der.
Fielding honors in the catching
department belong to owens, who
worked behind the bat last season
Tor Minneapolis In 1876 games he
made only fourteen errors. setting a
mark OF 1888. Ray tschalk, who
came to the Chicago Americans from
Milwaukee, made seven errors in
eighty games; and is credited with
a percentage Of 9S5,
The Indianapolis club Relded $50
as i team ana led the league max
ing Il evident that they were weak
in the batting department ese they
might have finished higher up in
Tho pennent race, Other teams
flelded ais follows
Columbus 959 Toledo s52, Min
neapolis 1851. ST. Paul .s51, Louis
vile $40 KANSAS City s4S and
Milwaukee 947