Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
FIVE BINGLES
IN ONE GAME
DIFFICULT TASK
Only Seven Players in Major
Leagues We're Able to Turn
Trick This Year.

@ MASKING the offerings Of the
y opposing pitcher for five safe
ties in a single game does not
happen very often in the national
pastime. Players make two. three and
sometimes four bingle IN contest.
but when the FIVE mark is reached,
the athlete comes in for a lot Of ex-
ira mentioning.
This campaign. just seven players,
FIVE in the National and two in the
American. have turned the trick. Only
one r.ayer has been able to do this
twice this campaign. He was Beals
Becker, who started the season with
the Giants, went to the Reds and now
is with the Phillies.
All Pitchers Look Alike.
Becker was with the Reds. when
on May is, he clouted the offerings
of Hess Dickson Gervais and Stand
for Ave bingles. Then on September
8. while he was operating in the out
field for Charley Dooin's second plac-
ers, Beals again picked on a bunch OF
Brave hurlers to bang five hits. This
time the moundmen were Quinn and
James.
But Becker is the only one who has
been able to bang to parts unoccu-
pied five times twice. The others
have been very well satisfied with
doing It once.
Reb Cakes One Of Them.
One Cardinal player-Rebel Cakes
comes in for little mention. Reb
was one OF the few who succeeded In
bombarding the opposing pitchers for
Ave hits In a single game Rebel
pulled off his stunt of swatting
against the Phillies on August q. Ad
Brennan, Inlay, Rixey and a kid
named Hoslip were the moundmen
who suffered when Reb's big bat was
doing It's worst.
But National League players have
been far more successful than those
laboring in the Ban Johnson circuit.
This stunt of making five hits In
game has been pulled six times In
the National and only twice IN the
A. L.. which gives the senior body a
big lead.
Eddie Collins and Ed Sweeney are
the only ones who have been able to
DO this in the American. Collins
picked April 10. the opening day OF
the season. to show his greatest Prov
ess with the bat. and with pitchers
for the champion Red Sox as the OPP
ponents. Joe Wood, who topped the
league in hurting in 1919. and Charley
Hall were the moundmen handed
very rudely
Browns Fingers Get Bumped.
Sweeney, catcher for the Yankees.
picked on Roy Mitchell and Earl
Hamilton, hurlers for the poor down
trodden Browns, TO pull off his FEAT
This happened on June 10, when the
two clubs were playing on the Polo
Grounds. Ed made four OF the swats
while Mitch was on duty and also
hammered Hamilton for onev
In the n. l.. two Boston players
have been able to turn the trick. They
were Mann. the outfielder. who, on
July 8, walloped Stack and Wagner
OF the Superbas, for quintet of safe
ties, and Meanwhile, the little short
stop, who walloped the offerings OF
Packard. Suggs and Ames 10 parts
unoccupied five times on September
IL.
The only other player in the majors
who has been able to make ave
bingles in one game this campaign
was Gavvv Cravath, the smuggling
Phlllie outfelder.
The players who have made ive
hits in one game this season:
National League.
May 15-Becker off Hess, Dickson,
Gervais and Strand.
May 21-Cravath, on johnson, Har-
ter and Smith.
July S-Mann, off Stack and Wag-
ner.
August 27-Oakes, off Brennan, Inn
Law Rixey and Hoslip.
September Seeker. off Quinn and
James.
September 1l-Maranville, on
Packard, Suggs and Ames.
American League.
April f0--Collins, off Wood and
Hall.
June 1s-Sweeney, OF Mftchen and
Hamilton.