The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23
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tag. Detcnsively all three look good.
Eborts trails in this direction with Il
mark OF .93i. Burke has 1851 and Ten
nant a67, or an average OF .959 for the
three. Not q bad looking outfield by
any means. and fast Eberts scored
ninety-nine runs for his club last sea-
son, while both Tenant and Burke
can travel the horn in fast time,
The inheld is made up now, bar
ring accidents But the outiield can
he bolstered from any one of the
other candidates not mentioned in our
guess Bill Laval is by no means out
of the race Bills mace has done dam
age on many diamonds, and though
not young any more he is still strong
enough to go the pace Speaking Of
the inteld. 1t is question whether
there is another club in the country
which can show the offensive strength
OF the Colts III this department. The
four men in the inner works-Raley,
Bresnahan. Griffin and Newton--have
an average with the shi!lalah of 900,
the wonder mark In the realm OF swat
They may fail below this in 1913. but
the probability is that they will I'm
prove Raley batter .309. Newton go,
Grit, leading the league. hit .356 and
Bresnahan clouted for .2G.. If there
is weakness in the infield II is in
fielding, where the average topples to
$40, by no means poor. Young Bres
nahan is credited with percentage
OF .Se9 at the hot corner which brings
the general average down.
Club Averages 100.
But getting away from departments
Of the game. the inficld and outheld
combined-rcmcmber AL of this fsur-
ing is on the averages of last year
and must be taken for what II Is
worth-wlll start work with a fielding
average of $50 and an offensive mark
of $50. What the batteries Will do
remains for the future Johnny Mace
can always be relPd upon TO bang as
good as .270 while Charley LuslSy is
said TO he even better Jay Rogers
was never strong with tho wood,
though he did break up several games
with nifty whangs, and finished with
.21o to his credit AS for young Ber-
ger, he is untricd and must be seen
before being judged.
Tho official averages OF the club
bear out what Grif said at tho end OF
the season--hc wanted an average
club, not bunch OF cleanup phenoms
But il isn't only in hitting that the
preseason dope rings good The met,
arc rather hefty OH getting around to
the cashinc corner Taking them right
down the line. steve Griffin scored
nincty-seven runs and stole forty-hvc
bases: Ralcy, forty-eisht runs aad
thiity-two bases; Newton. siNty-eiGht
runs and twenty-nine bases Brcsna-
han. fifty-three runs and twcnty-ninc
bases: Tenant, thirtysix runs and
twenty bases. Burilc. seventy
seven runs and twelve bases. and Egg
bert. ninety-nine runs and thirty one
bases This makes and average o!
sixty-nine runs per season per man.
and an average Of thirty three stolen
bases per season per man.
should Win Most GnmcS.
Carrying the statistics a little fur
and stolen bases per game on the
schedule of 49, games, we find that
each man scored .O523 of run per
game and stole .oo5 bases per game.
This is just for seven men. bnt pre-
snming that this average is main
tanned when the battery is included,
the nine men would score IL runs
per game and would steal Us. or
about one fourth Of base per game.
II. however, for the sake of argument.
we assume that the battery is going
10 lessen the offensive strength OF tho
club. We can cut off tho = tenth of q
run leaving four runs per game. Any
club averaging four runs a game for
an entire season should win certain
~ two-thirds OF the games played, and
winning two-thirds of the games
played means Il pcnnant.
The percentage of stolen bases.
while not as great as might be wish
cd is stin far above the average, and
since there is a wide divergence be-