The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-18
||CRIflCE FLIES
ALLOWED ) MEN TO
ENTER 800 CLASS
nut FOR MURRAY's RULE. WAC.
NER. LoBERr AND WHEAT
WOULD BE OUTSIDE.

There would have been only TWEEN
" members in the National League
Society Of Three Hundred Hitters this
season, instead of twenty-three, II
the rule makers six winters ago mad
not hearkened to the counsel OF
Hiliy Murray. president Pittsburg
scout and former Phiiadelphia man
arer, who was responsible for the
adoption of the rule giving bats
man credit for a sacrifice when ne
poled a long fly to the outfeld that
brought In runner.
The three men VINO got into the
500 circle this season because the
scoring rules were changed after the
1907 campaign, were Hans Wagner.
Hans Lobers and Zach Wheat. Some
Eastern experts accuse the official
scorer OF the Pittsburg club with
having helped Wagner to again bat
500 in 1919. as has been his custom
ever since he broke into the National
league; but the individual who was
really responsible for Wagner re-
tanning his membership in the society
OF the Three Hundred was Murray.
wagners average without sacrifice
flies would have .29s: With them,
il was just 800. II Lobert and
Wheat had been charged with times
at bat when they brought runners In
by sending out lengthy flies. their per-
EfAlAEtN Ntui0 nave htfH fNDts
The sacrifice fly rule benefited
Jake Daubert, who led the National
league in batting TO the extent of
eo2, Gavyy Cravath, who gave paa-
bert close race for the honors, to
the extent of .005, and "Heinie" Zlm-
norman to the extent of .o0T. Among
the 400 hitters who did not pole any
sacrifice i'ies were Roy Miller. of
Philadelphia Wilson Collins. Drum
fshariaV Schmidt and
Otto Hess, OF Boston. and Grover
Hartley, Claude Hooper and Otis
crandail. of New York.
Only four players In the National
all westerners by the way-suc-
ceeded In manufacturing ten or more
sacrifice flies during the last cam
paign. Jack Miller. OF Pittsburg
Louis, Mo, next summer. carried off
the honors In sacrifice flies being Gre
dited with fifteen. Oddly enough
Miller's most distinguished compet-
tor in this line OF endeavor was the
man who will supplant him az Pitts
burg's first sacker-Ed. Konetchy.
.Kooney'' came through with thirteen
lengthy bies that brought runners
over the plate. Ranking third ms a
manufacturer of sacrifice flies was
"Heinie" Zimmerman. of Chicago,
with eleven, and ranking fourth was
another Chicagoan--vic Safer. He
has ten to his credit
Pittsburg tied Chicago for the team
leadership in sacrifice fiies. the crews
OF Clarke and Evers each manufac-
turing sixty-one. Philadelphia made
fifty-eisht: New York. ffty-two:
Brooklyn. forty mine: Boston. forty
seven; St. Louis. forty five, and Gin
cinnati. ferty-four.
The team leaders in sacrifice flies
were: Luderus and Cravath, for Phil
adelphia: Miller Pittsburg Konetchy.
st. Louis: Tinker and Hoblitzel. Gin
cinnati, Zimmerman. Chicago: Cut
shaw. Brooklyn. and Sweeney and
Whaling. Boston.
The nIl-star team at sacrifice fly
hitting would have for it's pitcher
either Larry Cheney. of Chicago. or
Dick Rudolph, OF Boston: for its
catcher, either Jimmy Archer. OF
Chicago, or Bert Whaling. OF Bos-
ton for It's frst baseman. Jack Mill
Ter. OF Ptttsburg: for its second base
man. Doyle. Of New York: for third
baseman. Zimmerman. OF Chicago.
for it's shortstop. Fletcher. of New
York. and for its outflelders, Cra-
yath. of Philadelphia