The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-26

of his own. vet woJking together in uni
son as a smoothly oiled piece OF ma
cbinery
This valuable quality OF the men has
| probably never been better eHempliiied
in all baseball history than il was in
players had ever neutrality-suspicious.
against the Chicago Cubs in 1910.
Stacked up against team whose
strongest baseball asset WAS its team
work and whose nacbine-hbe method Of
outguessing is opponents had besn the
wonder Of the baseball world. tbis
"kid : in6eld not only rose TO the occa-
sion and surpassed even their previous
brilliant achievements by batting col
lectively FOR an average of over 400 for
the five games OF the series and showed
their nerve in the face Of trying condi-
lions by committing collectively but
four errors during the Eve games, but
they actually beat the famous ''Cub
machine at It's own game hy outguess-
ing and "out out-braining it at every
stage Of the contest. With that series
the famous ''Cub machine that had
been the wonder Of the baseball world
faded into n pale blue mist on the base
ball horizon aud new ma chine,
greater than any vet known. was boru.
When this mental capacity OF the
boys-the oldest is not vet % wears of
age-that compose this great iufeId
combination is considered along with
their great physical ability. it wiB be
seen what fat chance any other com
bination of baseball talent in the lis lis
tory of the game has to cope with them
as factor in any ball clubs snccess.
As ample evidence to Their collective
ability from a purely physical and me-
chanical point Of. view. we respectively
submit that during the two years that
thls auarteite nave been playing togeth-
er intact srsey have compiled collcc-
i've tot2 swatting average for that
peraod tof .32S, being all told 4166 times
salfoat, making 1916 hits 209 two base
,hits, 9S triples and 90 home runs, be.
and fielding sensationally throughout.
And these batting figures have been
pulled down considerably through the
necessity Of counting in the hitting iig.
nres OF Jack Barry, who never hits up
TO the 800 mark, but whose sensational
fielding ability and work on the bases
entities him TO be considered as a star
performer nevertheless, the other trio
Of the combination always hitting much
above the figures given in the total col
lectivc batting average of the quartettc.
If there is any 9nficld combination
smcared over the pages of baseball his-
tory that have surpassed these figures
collectively they have succeeded mighty
we'll in suppressing the news, and on top
of this we have yet TO adj the mental
ability, initiative and ''inside work. OF
the boys.
Figured Individually, Collins, start
ing as regular in 1900 finished sec-
oud to Cobb IN the American League
batting figures, his first year. with an
average of .396, and also finished second
ia l'oEb IN 81 nipn Luugs Nth E- 20
his credit, aud led the second basensn
Of tho American league in fielding. In
his second year, 1910. Collins again led
the second bascman in fielding and set
new record for the American league
IN stolen bases with 81 pliers which
was the most any ball player had stolen
uD TO that time since Lange. the old
Chicago star, swiped S. back in 1872
and finished with batting average