The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-02-03
HIT LEADERS IN
PHILADELPHIA
FRANK BAKER OF ATHLETICS
AND oAvNN CRAVATH
OF oUAKERS.
Lead Their Respective Leagues In
Phl rsmmsrIns Throughout the
the 1918 Baseball Season.


The major leagues In timely hitting.
frank Baker Of the Athletics having
led the Americans in this respect lust
as Gavvy Cravath did the Nationals
!. Franklin hammered home 133
marks In 1913. which was four more
than we're driven over the plate BY
the fence breaker from California.
who ran Jake Daubert. winner OF tine
Chalmers car offered TO the Nationals
most valuable player. such a close
race Tor the batting laurels. Baker.
IKE NraNath. was the lone man I'm the
century class In his league in driving
IN tAliies. Derrili Pratt OF the Browns
was the runner-up. Just falling short
IN MS attempt TO get in the three
ngure division. Ths st. Louis in
helder added the finishing touches 70
rs runs. Third among the timely
wallpapers stood Mcinnis OF the White
Elephants. with 80 to his credit
iourth was Jack Barry. also a Mack.
man. with ~; NTH Vas Sam Craw.
Iotd. OF Detroit with 90: sixth was
Duny Lewis OF Boston. with So: sew.
enth was Joe Jackson OF Cleveland
With ~; eighth was Iris Speaker OF
Boston. with 81. ninth Was Eddie Col.
Inns OF Philadelphia. with 10 and
tent was Napoleon Lajoie of Cleve.
land with "a. In 1912 the ten first
opportune hitsmiths were Baker OF
Philadelphia. with 1873: Lewis OF Bos.
ION; With III; Crawford OF Detroit
Win lV5; Mclnnis OF Philadelphia
with 1903; Speaker OF Boston. with
81 LaJoie OF Cleveland. with 90 /:
jackson OF Cleveland. with 80: Cobb
OF Detroit. with 90: Gandil OF Wash,
ingion, with So. and Gardner OF Bos.
ton, with IS.
There were only two changes
among the team leaders in timely nit
ting. Baker again excelled Tor the
White Elephants. Gandn for the sena,
tors. Lewis for the Red Sox. Bodie
Tor the White Sox. Pratt for the
Browns and Crawford for the Tigers
Tree supplanting Chase as the Yam.
KEGS best willow wielder in the
pinches. and jackson beating out
LSlole Tor the honor among the Maps
ne eight team leaders OF 1912 batted
IN 619 runs. which was sixteen more
than were driven home by the Ath.
leucs, VINO had the most powerful at.
tack OF any. American league club
Team Of Timely Hitters.
Inc Johsonites' ablest team Df time.
~ hitters for the past season would
be OF worlds championship calibra
and would have on it men from every
club save New York. Its battery
would consist OF Walter johnson. OF
Washington twinner OF Shalmers
carr and Ray Schalk. OF Chicago: Nc.
lnnis. Barry and Baker. OF PhiiadeI.
phla, and Pratt OF St Louis. would
form It's inheld, AMI Crawford. of De.
troit, Jackson. OF Cleveland. and
Lewis. OF Boston. would compose its
trio OF gardeners
OF the 1875 runs batted in BY Baker
last season, ll6 were registered on
safe hits. seven on sacrifice flies and
nine on inheld outs. McInnis, of Phil.
players who both were born in the
Bay state, took the lead in bringing
IN runners on aerial sacrifices. each
athlete scoring eleven. Al scoring
men on inheld outs Jack Barry, OF
Philadelphia. set the pace. with seven.
teeh. The reason Barry was the lead
or was That he was the man Connie
Mack selected when the White Ele.
plants were due to work the double
squeeze. on no less than eight occa.
sions the Tall Tactician had the pleas
ure OF seeing the double squeeze
worked on the unsuspecting opposl.
ton. The Tigers were the victims oi
this play thrice. the Browns twice. the
Red SoX twice and the Nationals once
waiter Johnson was Washington =
gunner when Barry worked the double
squeeze against the Senators.
Peekinbaugh Some Hitter.
baNer ava not claim the 1913 record
t'i iH' EIfalt~l NUMBER or men driven
nome in game. that honor being pro
cured by PeckinOaugh Of New York in
! game with Detroit on August %
Then the Nap discard put the finish
'Eg touches 20 six of his teams dozen
markers, hitting for the fun distance
with the bases all occupied in the sec
end inning and doubling and driving
n two players in the first. The De
iroit pitcher was North. a recruit from
the Jackson club of the Southern
Michiaau league Joe Jackson. Frank
Baker and sam Crawford each drove
IN five talIies i'm contests. Players OF
ten baiied in four runs i'm games
Crawford. Mclnuis Cree. Baker and
Harry each turning the trick twice
Forty-One Instances cropped up last
season whore the bases we're cleared
az their three inhabitants because
some one singled. doubled. tripled OF
hit for all four hassocks at the psy,
geological moment. Baker had three
cleanup drives TO his credit Ga single
double and triplel. Cree two "a double
ard homer. cobb two ia double and
homer. Jackson two "a triple and
O. homer. and Chapman two IA double
end triple.
The greatest number OF cleanup
smaehes were collected on the deliv
cries 81 the Washington artillerists
who yielded seven. Needless TO say
Walter Johnson did not permit any
Tho batsWen rarucrnd six cleanup
drives of fhe New York pitchers. six
OF Uctroifs. Sis or ChicIgo'a. five of
81 Lo1ie's. five on Clevclaud's. three
on Boston and three of Philadol
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