The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-14
New Orleans Leads in Prac- tically Every Department of the Game and Won the Pennent on Merit
PITCHING STAFF OF BARONS MAKE FAIR SHOWING
Tod Sloan Only Baron Other Than lMOlesworth to Bat .300-BarOns Take Tail End Honors in Fielding

The official figures for the 1915 season Pf the Southern league have been com piled by President R. H. Baugh's office.
 The figures show that Birmingham stood
 airly well in many departments. New Orleans, the pennant winner. led the
 eague in practically every department.
 Birmingham had only one man to hit bove the 300 mark other than Manager Molesworth who only participated in IS games. Tod Sloan batted an even 300 Tor the year. Next to Sir Toderick came Bill Lindsay, with an average of .270, Rnd then Lord Cecil Coombs with .26S. |1llam, the Baron captain batted .265,
 lis best for several seasons. The average Pf the club in batting was almost at the bottom of the ladder, and far below the Etandards.
 In the pitching department the Barons Jared much better. Karl Black, the only Baron southpaw, led the Baron fingers with a percentage of .630, winning r and losing 10 games. Cunningham of Chat tanooga, who was drafted by the De- froit Tigers, led the entire league with hn average of .667. Bradley Hogg. drafted by the Cubs, was second with 647.
 Dick Robertson was close on the heels bf Black with .629 Dickie won 22 and
 lost 13 Grimes, with r wins and 1S losses, hn average of .567, was third among the Baronial pitchers and Arthur Johnson, with an average of .559, was fourth. "Lanky'' Arthur won 19 and lost Perryman ended the season one game above the 800 mark, winning seven and
 Dosing six.
 In fielding the Barons made miserable showing. Not a single Baron led his H. ton. The best showing that any Baron made was to come in third. This was Ellam. Gene Paulette was the premier first sacker of the league and Calhoun .second. Mickey Coyle was tenth and Car roll and Coombs still lower.
 Carl Flick of the Gulls was the best |felding second sacker in the league Will llams was second and Danny Clark last . in the list, with an average of .932. Red McDermott copped the third base men honors with ease. Red fielded with an average of .946 Graf of Chattanooga was second and Bill Lindsey third. Downey of Little Rock led the short shoppers with Dobart of Mobile second, with an average of .951 and .943 respec- lively. Ellam was third with .9A. Not single outfielder went through | the season without making pebble. Hub Northern came the closest with four, Heading the entire field. The Baron out i fielders, Sloan, Magee and Coombs. were | far down the list, with .951, .950 and .945, l Respectively
 Neither did Baron pitcher prove to be a good fielder. Johnson was the best with 96S and Perryman, Grimes, Robert son and Black following in the order named. Young Carl proved to be the slouch of the league, making the lowest percentage with .S62 Blackie made Il boobies, the most of any pitcher in the league.
 Higgins of New Orleans was the best fielding catcher, with .9S0. Kitchens of | the Lookouts was second, with .978. Wal lace and Hale were also far down the 1 list with .95S and .971, respectively. Although the Barons were not a great fielding or hitting club, they knew how to score the runs on fewer hits than any other team in the circuit. They took ad- vantage of all the misplays of their op- popents and aided by their speed won many a game that would have been marked up in the lost column. With a good hitting and fielding clup tne Barons would have won the rag.
 But second was good showing. Dur ing the past nine years the Barons have never finished lower than third under the leadership of Carlton Molesworth. Twice the rag was won and second place was the reward once. On other occasions the Barons finished third. This years pen nant was the fourth one to be won by the New Orleans club.
 The following is the number of pen- nants each team has won since 1901: Bir- mingham, three; New Orleans, four; At lanta, three; Memphis. two; Nashville, three.
 The five leaders in pitching, batting and fielding are as follows: