New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-05
ATHLETICS ARE GOOD
ON CIRCUIT DRIVES
Thirty-one Four-Baggers Cred
tied to Them in the Season
Just Ended.
BAKER ALONE MADE IL
Opposing Batters, on Other
Hand, Have Hit Mack S Pitch
ers for Limit Only Two
Dozen Times.

Dozen Times.
Eight of the Philadelphia Athletics haNa
| qualified as home run manufacturers this
season. those who have hit for the grand
tour being j. Franklin Baker, Reuben n.
! Oldrng, John McInnis. John Barry, Wal
ter Schang, Edward TrowbridGe Collins
John Lapp and Carroll Brown. These
athletes collectively accounted for thirty
one circuit drives, Baker claiming twelve.
or more than a third. Oldring has made
! five homers. Mclnnis four. Barry and
/ Schang I'VE apiece. Collins two and Lapp
and Brown one each.
or the dozen home runs struck b. Ia
| ker seven were against right handed
I pitchers and five against left handed box
men. The Trappe slusgcr has made his
! homeTs off the best OF American League
pitchers. even Walter Johnson yielding
two. Three of the home runs manuIact-
ured by the man who broke up the
world series two years ago with hits OF
this kind came on three successive days
MAY %. 30 and Sand were made against
twirlers wearing the uniform OF the Man
haitian team.
"Rube" Oldring who contributed a
home run to his teams cause in The
worlds series of 1871. has made Ave four
baGgers this year. and four Of them nave
been off pitchers who rely mainly on the
spit balI-a fact which Tesreau would DO
well to remember
Jack Barry Is the only one OF the Atm
letics credited with two four-Daggers IN
the same game this season. lie turned
On. IA
Collins and Earl Victor Mosely being the
pitchers.
Wallie Schang. one OF the Athletics Who
strikes out frequently, has maze three
homers this season. the one hi secured
off Mitchell giving his team Victor!
over the Maps.
The list below shows the number VI
home runs made by each Philadelphi"
PLAYER this season and the names OF ihe
pitchers of whom they were made:
BY Baker, l2-On Johnson, Washington
2; Hamilton. st. Louis. :; russell. I'M
cago. !; scott, Chicago, !; pianu I.,1,
Cleveland, /. Gregg, Cleveland, heat-
ing. New York. /. Fisher. New York
Kiepfer, New York, /: X. Mitchell ST.
Louis. !. SummSy-Off right handlers 4"
of lett handlers. .. 49,. ~. vo-,,
Bedient. Boston, i; Baumgardner ST.
Louis, l. Summary-Of right handlers. :.
BY McInniss, 4-Oh KEEPER S SeW orr.
cago /; Walsh, Chicago, l. SUMMARY
OF right handlers. 3: off left handlers. !.
BY Barry, 3--On Collins. Boston, J
Mosely, Boston, !; schulz. New aork, !;
summary-Om left handlers . OH ris"'
nv Nv schang. ON Ford, New York, /;
w. Mitchell. Cleveland. /; Hughes. Wash
ington, |. Summary-On right hahders'
By Coins Oft Dauss. Detroit. !;
Ford. New York. l. Summary-Of right
By iapp, lon Groom, Washington. !.
Sunmary-Of right handers, I',. ro,,;.
by Brown. l-On Hamilton 81 LOUIS
/. Summary-Off left handlers l.
The number of home runs made on the
Athletics pitching corps this season ~
twenty-four, the only American League
PLAYER who has shown decided knacA
in this direction OFF Plank. Bender * co.
being Bodie, Of the White Sox, who made
FIVE home runs in the series with the
Philadelphians this year. He is the only
pIaver in the organization who can claim
the proud distinction of having hit for the
circuit in a game in which Chief Bender
ost4 dtth.
Bender has Welded only one home run
this season. and that homer cost him "a
game; Shawkey who may figure IN the
big series, has been located for two OF
the limit drives Carroll Brown, another
possibility, for six such smashes. ana
Eddie Plank, certainty for three.
Hooper, Of Boston, and Sweeney, Of New
York, left-handed hitters and Jackson, Of
Cleveland. a right-handed batter, got the
-baggers off Plank
The list below shows the number of
home runs made off each Philadelphia
pitcher this season and the men who
made them:
off Brown, 6-By Bodie, Chicago, 2; La
ioie Cleveland, /; Agnew. st. Louis, i;
Austin. ST. Louis. /; Johnson, Washing
or Pennock, 4-By Weaver. Chicago !;
Crawford, Detroit, ]; johnson, Washihg-
ton. /: Gandil, Washington, /.
OFF Bush. 4-By Bodie. Chicago. ]; Jack
son Cleveland, /; Chapman, Cleveland !;
Milan. Washington. J.
of Plank, BY Hooper Boston. l; jack
son. Cleveland, /; Sweeney. New YORK.
of Houck, BY Wagner, Boston. ];
Moeller. Washington, J; Bcdie. chicago, ].
OF Shawkey. by Compton. St LOUIS,
l. Jackson, Cleveland. l.
OF Wyckof. by Witt, Detroit, ].
of Bender. by Bodie. Chicago, !.