Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-01
BAKER AGAIN LEADS AMERICAN
LEAGUERS IN DRIVING IN RUNS
Connie Mack's Star, Though, Did Not Slug Up to
His Standard of 1912-Gandl Slumps in
Run-Producing Hits, But Finishes
in Front Among Nationals.
BY ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

of being indicted for repeating. as for the
second year in succession he Is found at
the top of the American League brigade
of timely clubbers. In 1912 Baker set
the pace in the Junior organization in
driving in runs by hammering home 133,
and last year he again showed the way
to all the opportune hitsmiths by adding
the finishing touches to 126. In the five
previous Seasons the best men at bring
ing base runners to the bureau of regis
tration were claimed by Detroit Tyrus
Raymond Cobb carrying Off the honors in
1907, 1908, 1909 and 1911, and Samuel B.
Crawford annexing the laurels in 1910.
Bakers 1873 runs batted home in 1912 set
no record, as the Georgia Peach
brought in IA ITALICS on his drives in
1911 and BARRIER Sam sent in 1877 with
his slams in 1910. The 1907 high-water
| mark for runs batted in was 116, the 1908
figure 101 and the 1909 figure 10.
Since the runs-batted-in records have
been made public. from 1907 to 1918. in
clusive-a space of seven seasonS-slx
men have succeeded in reaching three
figures in the number of counters they
have driven in Cobb has been century
plant for four years, with a record OF 116
| runs in 1907 1o1 In 1893, 115 in 1909 and
IA in 1911; Baker. for three, with a rec
ord of 115 In 1911. 1913 in 1912 and 1875 in
1913: Crawford for two, with a record of
l37 In 1910 and 1oS in 1912; Duffy Lewis of
the Red Sox for one, with a record of
| Ill in 1912: Jack McInnis of the White
Elephants for one, with a record of 1O3
in 1912, and Ping Bodie Of the White
Sox for one. with record OF 112 in 1911.
Baker had no companions in the CEN
fury class last season. Derrill Pratt of
the Browns. who was the runner-up to ].
Franklin as a timely thumper, making
brave effort to get into the three-hgure
division and failing only by a brace OF
tallies Pratt batted in 9S counters in
1913; as against 81 in 1912 Third among
the timely wallpapers stood McInnis of the
White Elephants with 81 to his credit;
fourth was Jack Barry, also Mackman,
with 90; fifth was Sam Crawford of De-
troit. with 80: sixth was Duffy Lewis of
Boston, with Sc: seventh was Joe Jackson
of Cleveland. with 81; eighth was iris
Speaker of Boston, with 81: ninth was
Eddie Collins of Philadelphia. with Is.
and tenth was Napoleon Lajoie Of Cleve-
land. with "a. In 1912 the first ten OPP
perfume clubbers were Baker of Phila-
delphia with 1873: Lewis of Boston, with
Ill; Crawford of Detroit, with 1903; McIn-
mis- of Philadelphia. with 103; Speaker Of
Boston, with 9s; Iajoie of Cleveland, with
96; Jackson of Cleveland with a3; Cobb
of Detroit. with 90; Gandil of Washing
with So.
Three Men Take a Drop.
Cobb, Gandil and Gardner. it will be
observed, dropped out of the ranks OF
the first ten in 1919. the men who re-
placed them being Pratt. Barry and Col
Inns. Tyrus drove in % more runs in
1912 than he did in 1919; Arnold, Is more
in 1912 than in 1919. and Larry. 81 more
in 1912 than in 1913. Pratt last season
improved on his 1912 record by IS runs;
Barry by % runs and Collins by runs
There were only two changes among
the team leaders in timely hitting. Baker
again excelled for the White Elephants
Gandi for the Nationals. Lewis for the
Red Sox. Bodie for the White SoX, Pratt
for the Browns and Crawford for the Ii
gers. Cree supplanting Chase as the Yam
KEGS best willow wielder in the pinches
and jackson beating out Lajoie for the
honor among the Maps.
The eight team leaders of 1913 batted
in $40 runs, or sixteen more than were
driven home by the Athletics who had
the most powerful attack of any Amer
lean League club.
The Johnsontes' ablest team of timely
hitters for the past season would be of
worlds championship caliber and would
have on it men from every club save
New York. Its battery would consist of
Walter Johnson of Washington and Ray
Schalk of Chicago. McInnis, Barry and
Baker of Philadelphia and Pratt Of st.
Louis would form its intield. and Craw-
ford of Detroit, Jackson of Cleveland and
Lewis of Boston would compose it's trio
of suburbanites Baker, Mc1nnis, Craw-
ford and Lewis were members of the
younger organization's timeliest hitting
combination of 1912, the other players on
that club having been Charley Hall,
Oscar stanage, Arnold Gandil, Napoleon
Lajoie and Iris Speaker.
OF the 1876 runs batted in by Baker last
season, 10 were registered through the
medium of safe hits. seven on sacrifice
flies and nine on infield outs McInns
of Philadelphia and Collins of Chicago.
players who both were born in the Bay
state, took the lead in bringing home
runners on aerial sacrifices. each athlete
scoring eleven. Other players who reach
ed double figures in this kind of hits
were Sam Crawford of Detroit. Iris
Speaker and Duffy Lewis of Boston and
Terry Turner of Cleveland. Each man
was credited with ten.
At scoring men on infield outs Jack
Barry of Philadelphia set the pace, with
seventeen. Derrill Pratt of the Browns
brought in fourteen and Bob Veach of
the Tigers eleven. The reason Barry was
the leader in runs tailed on inheld outs
was that he was the man Connie Mack
selected when the White Elephants were
due to work the double squeeze. On no
less than eight occasions the tall
tactician' had the pleasure Of seeing the
double squeeze worked on the unsus-
pecting opposition. and three times Holy
Cross jack reached first in safety after
bunting while two of his teammates were
scoring.
Barry's First Double Squeeze.
Barry executed the double squeeze for
the first time May o., against Detroit,
Zamloch and Stanage being the Tigers
| battery. and for the last time September
-. against the Jenningsites, for whom
Dauss and Gibson We're in the points.
two White Elephants by having recourse
to the squeeze were follows:
June Against Detroit, Willett and
| Rondeau being the Tigers battery
August Against St Louis, Hamilton
| terry.
| August 26-Against ST. Louis Mitchell
| and Agnew being the Browns battery.
September Against Washington
| Johnson and Ainsmth being Nationals
| battery
September Against Boston, Leonard
and carrigan being Speed Boys battery
| September G-Asainst Boston, -Ander-
| terry.
| Barry reached first in safety in the
| game of June .. against Detroit; in the
game of August =. against st. Louis,
and in the game of September /. against
/ Washington. The men he squeezed home
| on the eight occasions were Baker, six
| times. Collins four times McInniS four