The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-24
SPORTS
SAFER NEXT TO HIGGINS
IN FREE PASSES TO FIRST
Chicago Player IIns Drawn SIX More
Passes Than lie Did Inst icnr In
FOrty-Sevcn Leks Gnmes.

cOrtJ-Sctcn lekS bumcS.
Vic Saier Cub first bascman. is spe-
cializing In drawing passes this sea
son. as we'll as In smashing out homers.
Safer liz not leading the National
League In ginning free tickets to the
bag he plays, but he Is very close to
Miller Huggins. manager OF the Car
dinals. who is the pace-setter in this
respect Hug has walked to first
scventy-two times this season, while
Safer has promenaded on sixty-eiyht
occasions. The Chicagoan now has
extracted six more passes from the
hurlers than he did last year. and he
has played In forty-seven less games.
Besides Huggins and Safer. twelve
more Tenerites have obtained free
transportation from the pitchers on
forty or more occasions this season
George Burns, of the Giants, has dra wn
5S passes: John Evers. OF the Braves.
IS: Tommy Leach, of the Cubs. SO;
Gavvy Cravath. Of the Phllios So; Bill
Sweeney. ofSthe Cubs. AZ; IIeinie Groh,
Of tho Reds. IS; Jimmy Viox of tho
Pirates. AZ; Dode Paskert. of the
Phillies 40; Wilbur Good. Of the Cubs.
a. Max Carey. of the Pirates. 42:
Casey Stengel Of the Superbas. Al, and
Larry Doyle. Of the Giants. 40 The
last named is the only Chalmers car
"inner who shows UP we'll In the Pass
League. Frank Schultz having secured
only thirty gifts from the hurlers, and
Jake Daubert only twenty-seven.
There is slight danger OF Higgins.
Safer. Burns or any of the other good
walters smashing the National League
record for walks. Secretary John
Heydler has been furnishing the in
formation on the number Of passes
each player receives now since 1910
| the leaders in the four preceding sea
SONS having been Iiuygins Of St Louis
with ll6 In 1910; Sheckard. Of Chicago
with 1i7 in 1911 Sheckard. Of Chicago,
with 1879 in 1912, and Bcscher, of Gin
oinnati. with ninety-four in 1918.
John McGraw is generally credited
with having made the best record for
watchfu! waiting OF any National
League player. When tho Little Ma
poleon was leading the Baltimore dis
cards Of 1898. he walked TO frat over
the four ball route los tunes in ninety
FIVE games. getting his base in this
manner AT least once In the first sixty
four contests No other National
/ succeeded in getting as high an aver
age OF prOmenades
McGraw was great waiter In the
days when he played under Ned Han
Ion. but his team Of Giants do not seem
To care particularly about working The
pitchers for Transportation. Last year
the Gothamitcs did not draw as many
bases on balls as the Cubs. Braves
Cardinals or Reds, and this year they
rank next TO last among the pitcher
WORKERS. the champions have secured
27s gifts. the Superbas one less. The
Cubs have received 37i free tips to hrst
from the pitchers; the Cardinals, 800;
the Ph!!lies, 3l5: the Reds, 3o7; the
Braves. 2s5. and tho Pirates. 2s6
The National Leagues best watchtul
waiting team would al the present time
consist Of four Cubs. one Giant. one
Superba, one Phillie, one Brave. and
one Cardinal, and would be made up
as follows:
-Bresnahan. OF Chicago, as
passes.
Pi,cher-Reulhach. of Brooklyn. /!
passes.
First haseman-saier. Of Chicago. SIS
passes.
Second baseman-Hugeins. Of ST
Louis, - passes
Third aseman-sweeney. of Chica-
go. 80 passes
shoy,stop-Evcrs, of Boston. IS
passes.
LEI, nelder-Burns, Of New York, IS
passes.
Centre nelder--Leach, Of Chicago. SO
passes.
RICH, helder--Crava,h, OF Philadel-
phia. SO passes.
The record number Of bases on balls
obtained by a National League PLACER
this season IN ono game is four WILL
bur Good. of the Cubs, got quartet
Of passes II ;h= game with Brooklyn
on May 10; Higgins. OF the Cardinals
turned the trick on June 10 against
Brooklyn, Cravath Of the Phillics, had
record OF this kind on June IL against
Cincinnati. and SAFER. OF the Cubs,
equaied the performance or August :
against New York