New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-28
ATHLETICS STRONG IN
OFFENSIVE TACTICS
Baker, McInnis, Barry and Col.
Inns Are MarveIS at Send.
ing Runners Around.
"BIG FOUR" FOR THE TEAM
Statistics Covering Work a,
This Quartet Might Raise
Fears About Outcome
of Worlds Series.

The value Of J. Franklin Baker. Jsck
McInnis, Jack Barry and Eddie cou,.
to the Philadelphia Athletics is strlk,ny,s
shown by the number OF runs these for.
men have batted home, the number .,
passes they have received and the v,v
they have avoided striking out.
Up TO last Thursday the Mack men had
garnered 1872 TALES. OF which s2s bs,
been batted in either on safeties. sacts..
flies or inield outs The four inheld.r
had hammered home IS per cent OF ths,
teams TALES. Baker sending in lis runs
McInnis 20. Barry IS and Collins T.
Up 10 the same date the American
League champions had Gcqured M
passes. with the big four claiming q
per cent Of the total Collins IS the cham.
pion walker OF the White Elephants. hay
ing been passed TO first base So times.
Eddie Murphy. the Athletics lead-or
man. has been passed Il times. whls
Baker has obtained transportation 81
times and McInnis and Barry nave q
walks apiece 10 their credit
The Mack men have struck out 5l2 times
this season. the four noted infelders SUD-
plying only l50 OF these, or about 9 per
cent. McInnis has caused the opposing
pitchers more difficulty 20 force hin TO
fan than any other member % the az.
10. -rg
only twenty-eight times thus Far, jus
twenty OF the fifty-nine huriers who has.
registered strike outs against the cham
pions being able TO turn the trick
Walter Leverenz. George Dauss and
Reb Russell have famed the Gloucester
boy three times each. Dutch" Leonard
and Joe Wood have each turned the trek
twice. and fifteen others have accom-
plished the feat once. Leverenz is the
only pitcher who has made McInnis fan
twice in the same game. this happening
on June H.
Barry has famed thirty times this yex
Baker thlrty-four and Collins thirty.
eight The pitchers who have struck out
more than once the man wrC broke Up
the worlds series two years ago are as
follows. Waiter Johnson and ICY Fax.
enberg. three times each. Walter lev
erenz, Ray Heating, al Schulz, "Cesa'"
Gallia. Edgar Willett and Earl Hamilton,
each twice Baker mas struck out tvtes
IN four games this season. the pitchers
who thus treated him being johnson.
Schulz. Hamilton and Leverenz.
The White Elephant who has been struck
out the greatest number Of times Is Wal
lie schang. the Young receiver having hi
nothing but the atmosphere On forty
seven occasions. Carroll Brown is an
other eminent club swinger, for ne mas
been famed thirty times this year, s-is'
ing out thrice in three contests.
OF the us runs batted in by Baker this
season l04 have been registered because
OF safe hits, six on sacrifice dies aid
eight on infeld outs. He has bat>d N
five runs In one game this season, anc
twice has produced the hits tnat nave
given his team a quartet OK TALES hs
made a single OF Kari We!lman, q ST.
Louis. on July q that brought IN tnres
runs and a triple Of jim Scott o. CHI
cago on August II, that sent the sAm'
number OF players over the plate
Baker is not the only Mack man VINO
has cleared the bases Of three tenaa"
by striking d timely blow this season.
Jack Barry. Ensign CottreA "aiA'
schang. Reuben Oldring and Eadie NUT
ply also did the same, the pitchers WV
suffered being respectively BlanGins'
Cleveland. Wilett. OF Detroit, benz'
Chicago. Russell. OF Chicago. and WE
Jams. OF Detroit
McInnis mas raised more sacrifice III"
than any OF his teammates, having YEA
10 hts credit. "Stuny" has oatted n
runs on hits and 8 on inheld outs.
Barry's total OF runs oatted IN Sc
g OF these on safeties, S OF sacrince D's
and Il on inield outs. The reason SAM
has put so many TALES over in the iAII'
way is that he is the main performer =
the double squeeze. which Is o play Wv
Mack men are featuring this year. par!
has scored two men on an inneId V-A'
eight times this season. the play hA'"s
been worked against Detroit three tiHsS
Boston twice, ST Louis twice ana =" ~S'
ington once.
Collins has batted IN = runs TINS yeI
and Oldring g.. No other White E!epnN-'
has passed the half century mark -.
The number OF runs each Mack ma" -.
batted In this season. the NUMBER T"
passes he has received, and the nun0',
Of times he has struck out VIII De lo'"'
below: