New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-23
Ty Again Leads American
League in Driving
Out Base Hits.
BOOSTS HIS AVERAGE
TO AN EVEN 400
Hank O'Day Maintains an I'm
pire Must of Necessity Look
Like a Villain.
By HAYWOOD BROUN.

on tn. old hook. According 20 the
American League batting average Ty
is once more on top. lie expects that
his address will remain unchanged
throughout the summer. When Ty
got home ne found one Fournier p
Frenchman, lolling about tie place but
be sent him packing.
Cobb Is batting 400. and iris aver
age includes the games played last
Wednesday. Fournier Is g; 1872. n
addition 20 leading the batters the
Detroit planet IS also first among the
base steslers. lie has seized eighteen
sacks, which Is Just four better than
Fritz Maisel. His run-making record
o. thirty-three also IS the envy Of
every other player in the league.
DAILY, who once hit home nun for
Nhe King Of England, is democratic
enough to hit just as hard for the
common people 81 Chicago. HIS bat
ting mark is $50. Joe Jackson comes
fourth with .859 and Sam Crawford
stands ffth HISS average IS .64S.
In to date Connie Mack need have
no regrets about Lajole, for the big
Frenchman stands seventh in the
league and is batting 1924
Hank ODsy maintains that an
umpire must look like villain whether
he is one or not. A man may have
the mobile and gentle features Of q
schoolhoy." says Hank, nut after he
has souinted through a mask for q
quarter century his features are
bound TO take on the look Of troubled
man. In IN average game Of baseball.
sn unpire makes about 300 decisions.
s decision IS called for on every ball
pitched. In seventy-seven games q
season therefore he must make about
PSI 600 decisions.
when you have stood there IN the
sun Judging balls that come with blind
ing speed or with tantallzlng curve or
slowness u isn't any wonder that a
mans nee will become confronted
with an anxious. sullcn look. To tell
you tho truth your face almost freezes
that way"
There's no denying that Hanks face
is all that he says u Is. but we believe
he is in error in explaining the counter
arce which every umpire wears. TO
our mind the effect Of being called
"robbcr" some thousands Of times
season cannot fail 70 have deleter-
ious PSYCHOLOGICAL effect. Under the
,ncessart accusation a mans self con-
fdencc breaks down. He begins 20
wonder. Am ! a robberc' And that IS
why the umpire has a shitty eye and
q guilty look.
The victories Of the Cubs and The
White Sox yesterday put both the Chi
cago teams in first place. The Chlfeds
are only half a game from the top. II
things keep up in this way Chicago
NAV be able 10 better the record OF
1905. In addition 70 having two teams
in the worlds series, the Windy City
NAV also house club which Will chal-
lenge the winner.
Jim Gaffney has issued an order for
bidding his players 10 appear at any
social function hereafter without spe-
cial permission. The penalty IS in
definite SUSPENSION. Afte- winning the
worlds series many members OF the
team came into great demand as after
dinner speakers. Meanwhile, IN par
ticular. had MS date book filled up Tor
weeks ahead.
The Braves were 50 talked out be
cause Of these speechmaking tours that
there were afternoons when they could
not command sufficient language to in
suit an umpire. Jim wants his men 10
conserve their vocabularies.
Fred Merkle hopes TO be back in the
game within a week or so. Brainerd
has been q good fielding substitute Tor
Fred, though, of course, he cannot play
the bag as we'll as the veteran, but his
hitting is trivial Brainerd's average
with the stick is about 40, while Mer
kle has mari Of 1873.
Charlie Hickman, who would have
given the suffragists a lot of worry II
he were still walloping those long
drives at the Polo Grounds, has landed
deep in the sticks after twenty years
Of major league baseball. He has
signed q three-year contract 70 coach
the baseball team Of the University Of
West Virginia.
Johnny Evers will rejoin the Braves
in June. according 70 the papers of
Troy, n. Y. He has left the hospital
and the plaster cast is of his ankle,
but the doctors will not let him walk
or run for the present.
Fans who think that money 10 the
only thing which appeals 20 baseball
player ought 10 conside- the case Of
Armando Marsans. The Cuban is IN
der contract 10 the ST. Louis club Of
the Federal League, but he Is 40 tightly
bound by inJunctlons that he cannot
do a thing but draw his pay. Yet, &C
cording 20 reports from 81. Louis, Mar
sans is worrying so much over his
inability 70 get into the game that he
cannot sleep at nights.
TnANH