The Detroit times., 1914-12-12
six OF Them Belong to Hoofeds'
which Leads OUTLAW
Circuit
BENNiE KAUFF Is THE
STAR OF ORGANIZATIONS
.eads in Batting, smuggling and
Pilfering-Bad Year For
Pitchers
nv HAROLD V. WILCOX.

before been offered for the delecta'
lion OF fandom, A quick glance az
the roll OF honor would lead one 10
4 heiieye that the outlaws hire none
B la,t 900 wielders Of the bludgeon'
No less than ~ Gilmore proteses
* rlonted their way into the ranks o!
baseball aristocracy last summer, aho
a six Of them belonged TO one team
,ha Hpofeds of Indianapolis, Three
mora Hoosiers managed TO pass tle
900 mark, giving the pennant WIN
ners what Is probably world record
M the Feds are 10 be accorded major
league class. -,
brooklyn and Pittsburgh each pu'
tonr srnashers OF the horsehide In the
a0o class. and BUFFALO and baltimore
eaoh landed a THO. Kansas City mao
two and ST. Louis and Chicago had
10 be satisfied with one each. NOT
team in the league failed 10 place a
mamber on the honor roll
AS indianapolis, the flag winners
AVERAGED better than four earned
runs a game during the season, ana
Kansas City, the cellar champs, aver
AGED nearly four earned runs game,
ii looks as II there had been some
horrible mangling OF moundsmen
around the Fed circuit last summer.
y We shall know more. OF that next
week.
M In 1914. the National league had
hut ~ bona fide 300 hitters, and the
American league reported one less
Saventy-six Feds batted $50 or bet
fer. The Tener organization has an
,,ounced 81 players who did better
than $50 last summer, and the Amer
lean league had two less than the
n National.
BENNiE KAuFF LEADS
+ FEDERAL LEAGUE
Bonnie Kauff, OF indianapolis, her.
aided as the "Ty Cobb OF the Federh
league" and lad who might be a
real rival OF the Georgia Peach II he
4 carried more gray matter In his era
MUM. is the first champion batsman
on the Federal league. His average Is
.366. Kauff is also the champion
Singer and base stealer of the or
sanization, so il can be seen that ne
Was quite a valuable boy. AS BIZ
Phillips, the Hoofed manager, says he
swiped Kauff from the Indianapolis
association team last spring because
'Jack Hendricks, boss OF the boosters
bIocked deal by which the Feos
were to kidnap DOME Bush and Mr
Dauss dear to the hearts OF Detroit
fans, this city win unite In ACCORDING
& Mr.. Kauff full portion OF praise TOT
his achievement >.
Second honors for the season went
TO Evans, with a batting average Oh
n .355, and third place goes 10 hai
Chase, agile first baseman ana hura'
Der. Thence down the columns are
800 clouters ad infnitum. enough
X for three whole teams, barring pi'ch-
ers.
4. INDIANAPOLIS GIVEN
ITEAM HoNoRS-
Team batting honors quite properly
70 to indianapolis. A season average
of .2S4 is quite respectable for whole
baseball club, but Is what Wonio De
expected of a team that had nine men
on the payroll who could pelt tne
r horsehide pellet for ,290 and better.
indianapolis also gets the laurel
wreath for smuggling, base pilfering,
sacrifice hitting and in driving out
two-baggers.
The Hoodfeds. strangely enough,
Z rank second in number of strikeouts
a Tor the season. yielding that doubtful
q honor to Buffalo. The Buffeds whitfield
X times, nearly 100 times more than the
II Hoosiers suffered that mishap, but not
H nearly as frequently as Branch Ric-
KEYS Browns went back to the bench
last summer without first trodding
4 the path toward first base.
4 The league leaders rank fourth in
4 requiring bases on balls, second in
I! rapping out three.baggers and tie
with Baltimore for sixth place in the
peculiarly outlaw art OF manufactur-
Ing home runs The fans are here
informed that all those rumors about
Tho scandalous way in which the Fed
erals have been losing balls over the
fences, are true. Just 294 circuit
drives were made on the Gilmore sea
son in 1914
But the National league has little
10 say for the Tener circuit boys are
credited with 266 home runs, 62 OF
them belonging to the Phillies. No
Fed club ever equaled that Quaker
record. The American league, how
ever. was very conservative, being
.crpdited with but 148 home runs. De-
& froit got % and Philadelphia IS.
The other Federal league club hon
<,rs are fairly well divided. Chicago
leads the burglars with $40 stolen
bases. and also is in the van with
Sc home runs. Pittsburgh holds the
fhree- Dagger record with "a drives
OF that description. Buffalo Is given
strikeout honors, and Baltimore played
the most tie games. being listed as
Z ., par r,i,i in six never''ettled
b kAuFF LEADS IN OTHER
cpARTMENTS-
Returning TO individual records,
. Kanff leads the Federal base stealers.
NTH 75 robberies entered on the
Rocket against him. MoKechnie. also
on indianapolis. is second with 50
3 thefts. Gilmore, OF Kansas City Is
the etrikeout king. with record of
Z los and nobody else within hailing
distance
Potts. OF Chicago. and Agler. OF Buf.
falo. each drew four score bases on
f balls. and are awarded the gonfalon
: m that department. McKechnio is
{hf honor man among the sacrifcers,
Iflping his teammates on |the Jour.
ne{< around the bags SO times
willing. OF Chicago. Is president of
~ circph drivers union with rec
~ OF Is home runs. Kenworthy gives
<1nfae City about It's only honorable
fntion. ranking next 20 Zwilling
~ mark Of - all-the.way around
F<6ps. ~ BROOKLYN. and Esmond. O,
titnapnin. are tied for tripic-base
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