The Washington herald., 1914-08-30
Smuggling Powers Is Main Factor in Club Pennant Winning
Pounding the Old Pill
Wins Honors for Macks
Heavy Hitting Of Philadelphia Athletics Is Peunant Winning
Diversion and One Which Lands Them the
Championships Figures Don't Lie.

ing the knee-eap on an infelder or dent
ing a fence. J. Franklin doesn't do much
tapping Of the sphere, although he can
bunt without hitting a home run. But
BY the time this left-handed mauIer Of the
sphere comes to bat there may be one,
two or three men on bases. and his job
II TO send them over He Invariably
does His lbs hits have totaIed $50 bases
and have done some damage to pitchers
records.
Baker has reached the home station
sixty-six times. which indicates that there
must be some power below him FIRE.
quentiy. teams stop at the fourth, or
cleanup man. on the attack. After him,
it's q case Of Maybe he'll hit II and
maybe he won't" Not 80 wit the cham
pions OF the world. Following Baker
comes "Stuny'' McInnis. who bats right
handed. and is a dangerous clubber. He
has knocked the ball safely 134 times:
has scored ifty-two runs, and his bingIes
have totaIled 15s sacks
Next up is Amos Strunk. and the pitcher
must again pitch to left-handed clubber.
Amos just now Is not up there in the
averages. but his seventy-nine bingles
and forty-one runs Indicate that he has
been doing some business. His speed is
wonderful asset to the team. for he can
go from first to third on almost any kind
u = hAes anu Ndn Cross tne plaIe QUICKER
than the majority OF big leaguers II he
gets the least bit Of assistance from his
mates.
Great Men in Pinch.
The seventh man up is the one all
American League pitchers fear. Jack
Barry never has been a 300 batsman.
But put two men on base in the ninth
inning, with two runs needed to win and
two out Bring Barry TO the plate and
see what happens Wen. nine times out
OF ten the crowd goes home happy-if it's
Philadelphia crowd In fact, he has
the reputation Of being the best man in
a pinch in the game. Barry has made
seventy-eight hits. so il is certain that
Collins, Baker and Strunk owe many Of
their tallies to Jacks blows. He bats
right-handed.
The seven men in the infeld and out
field positions have been considered in
this semi-statistical discussion. for they
are in the game virtually every day, and
1t is their terrific attack which drives 50
many American League pitchers to the
clubhouse for an early shower. They
alone have made 755 hits, or more than
q hundred bingIes a man. They have
scored IA runs-more than the full
strength Of any other American League
team is credited with
SdGh L-dpp ana W any SCndnE are Cdpd-
bic catchers and do their share when in
the game. but they divide the work.
Jimmy Walsh is a handy man, and as
substitute for either Murphy. OIdring or
Strunk fits into the attack perfectly.
Without meaning to detract a bit from
the work Of the catchers. pitchers and
utility men. Il is almost a safe bet that
Connie Mack's remarkable attacking
seven" could smash its way 10 a pennant
with less battery aid than any other
bunch OF inhelders and outfeIders in the
game. But, while they are smuggling
away they are not forgetting the finer
points Of the game; they have the inside
baseball stored away in their heads. and
II the occasion arises for the squeeze"
or other emergency tactics no team Is
better fitted to execute them.
It will be interesting to do some fig
uring at the end OF the season II ap-
pears now that Mr.. Mack's team will
establish some new figures for the down
right old game of smuggling and run-get-
ting. All Of which is not pleasant news
for Mr.. McGraw-or. should we say, Mr..
Stallins or Mr.. Higgins.