Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1915-05-17
TWIRLERS Liberal
WITHWALKSTHISYEAR
Rickey'S Pitchers and Mack'S
Slabmen Running Hot
For Honor
WALTER WILMOT
HOLDS THE RECORD

While the baseball public has been
informed this season that
the slabmen of the White Elephants
are a wild set and doing great injury
to the Mackian pennant cause by
heir generosity in dealing out passes,
no particular notice has been paid |
to the Browns artillerists, who are |
running the Tall Observation-Disclosures
a very close race for the honor OF /
leading o. BIS big league In ranking |
batsmen In the first twenty-seven |
days Of the American League cam
paign j. Weldon Wyckoff and his |
mound associates walked only four |
more men than did Grover Lowder- |
milk, member Of the Comeback !
Tribe, and the other athletes who
look after the box work for Rickey's
team.
The Athletic pitchers deadheaded
ZIG men, the Brown hurlers 112. r.
Bresnahan, in the National. is boss
ing the most generous set of slabbists
the Cub curvers having handed their
enemies "a free passages TO first.
Against this inaccurate showing place
the 80 passes that are charged up
against Pat Moran's pitchers and you
get one reason why the Quakers we're
able to set a fast pace in the early
weeks of the pennant pursuit. The
Red Sox batsmen. like the Phillies',
have good command. and only have
let 35 of their adversaries trudge TO
first over the Four Ball Route-a line
u tfalt Dc Nff .
with Edward Trowbridge Collins Of
the White Sox and Miller James Hug
gins of the Cardinals.
These two guardians of the second
sack already have reached the quarter
century notch in favors obtained
from the pitchers. the American
Lacquer having pried 20 bases on
balls away from the pitchers and the
National Lacquer %. Tyrus Raymond
Cobb is very much in the hunt for
the distinction of being Americas
best pass collector, and has collected
p.
SOx Not Good Walters.
The White Sox are not a good wait.
ing team. or a team that gets man,
pitching favors handed to It on pur
pose Collins record in obtaining
bases on balls. therefore. becomes al
J "a comps. His teammate, owen Bush
, the more notable since he has receiv
ed a third of the clubs gifts. Mile
! Higgins has procured a fourth Of tn
! favors bestowed on the Cardinals ant
Cobb a fifth Of the gratuities heape'
} on the Tigers, who have trudged Of
tener than any other set of athlete
under the domination of the Nationa
Commission. They have worked thei
! adversaries for 119 gifts. instances
) having been frequent this year whel
! il was a wise move 10 deadhead SOM
of the member OF Jennings celebrat
ed wrecking crew-Cobb, Crawford
and Veach
) In the National League the team
, that has drawn the greatest numbe
: Of passes is st. Louis. The Card
have 9S to their credit.
Besides Collins. Higgins. Cobb AM
Bush, 25 other major leaguers hav
! reached double figures in pitchin
presents. Oscar Witt Of the Tiger
has walked on IS occasions and Tom
my Leach Of the Reds has one les
promenade TO his credit than the Cali
, fornian. Dan Moeller OF the Senator
= and Harry Hooper of the Red 500
, like Leach lead off men, have re
, spectively paraded rs and Is times
Heinie Groh OF the Reds. Bert Shot
; ten of the Browns and ]. Gladston
!. Graney of the Indians have eac
Y drawn IA gifts. Sam Crawford OF th
Tigers has benefited by the pitchers
, Witness. or generosity. Is times, IN
other men who have been handed
D or more favors being as follows:
= Twelve Passes-Leibold of III
!. Indians; Speaker, Of the Red SoN
L Strunk. of the White Elephants, an
a Cravath of the Phillies.
e Eleven Passes--Jackson of the II
o dams and Johnston of the Pirates.
+ Ten Passes Walsh OF the Whit
e Elephants, High. Hartzell and Pipp
y the Yankees; Carey Of the Pirate
Clarke of the Reds, Phelan an
e Schultz OF the Cubs. Moran Of n
e Braves and Snodgrass of the Giants.
WilmOt Holds Record.
" Four passes are as many as an
lt major league player has been able
K pick up in any game this season. III
ne record for a combat is six. made
he Walter WilmOt of Anson's old Oh
no cago team on August %. 1891. Wh'
II, the present American Leagl
IS was minor organization. sal
n ing under the title of the Westel
League, Harry Hulen of Minneap
en- lis got six passes in a contest wi
81, Grand Rapids. He scored six runs
I'D well and stole five bases. which vi
as pretty good days work. The da
m, OF this performance was August
81 1895. Hulen was a left handed
Ist fielder and had two trials in the n
tional League-one from Philadelph
at and one from Washington. His ter
RS of service with both clubs was bril-
n The major leaguers who this We
rs have procured four passes in gam
CO. all are in the junior organizatiC
mt Eddie Collins turned the trick first
is the contest with ST. Louis on Ap
Is Is and a week later Roy Hartzell
At the Yankees duplicated il in the co
lp- bat with Washington. Bert Shot
Oh of the Browns equaled TIE perfor
re- ance of Messrs. Collins and Hartz
mt on May l against Cleveland. The @
ey thing about Shotten's feat was q
Oh he faced three Cleveland pitcher,
Hagerman. Walker and Mitchell
and yet got his free tickets to a
from only one of them, the first ma
ms eli, the celebrated zerah zequiel,
ter known as "Trip Zip"
II isn't hard for a patient athl
DIV in these days OF spitball hurting
get three bases on balls in an aft
lir noon. A flock of FASTENERS in
nd American and National have dc
- this this year. Eddie Collins
three such performances to