Evening star., 1915-11-14
DRIVING RUNS H0ME|
Triple Tie for Leadership in
Lifting Sacrifice Flies.
FOSTER BEST OF LOCALS
Eddie Garnered Seven, While Lewis,
Lajoie and John Collins
Made Thirteen.
BY ERNEST J, LANIGAN.

There was triple tie in the American
LeaEu., last season for the leadership
in sacrifice flies, Duffy Lewis of the
Red Sox, John Collins of the White Sox
and Napoleon Lajoie of the White Ele-
plants each propelling thirteen run
producing soaNers to the outfeld.
Bobby Veach of the Tigers was the
only other Johnsonite to get into the
double-figure class in aerial suicides,
his total being twelve. Iris Speaker
and Larry Gardner of Boston and Ty
Cobb and Sam Crawford of Detroit al
most reached the two-numeral mark,
each man being one under it. Lewis
was Boston's leader in sacrifice flies.
with 13: Feach, Detroit's, with IL: j.
Collins, ChicaSo's, with 13; ;sLajoie. Phil
adelphia's, with IS; Foster. Washing
tons. with :. and Pratt, st. Louis, with
2. For New York Hartzell and Bau-
man tied for the honors, each with s,
and for Cleveland, Chapman and Gra-
ney split the laurels. each with 5.
The champion Red Sox showed the
way in driving out flies that drove in
n good second, with IS, and then fol-
lowed the White Sox, with So; the
White Elephants, with 81; the Nation
ais, with so: the Yankees, with 3S: the
81. OF the f,56S sacrifices in the Amer
lean League records for 1915, 379 were
the result of muscular effort rather
than of skill or speed. Flies on which
runs are scored have been counted as
sacrifices for the last eight seasons, the
man who was responsible for the
change in the scoring rule being Will
liam j. Murray, once manager of the
Phillies and last season identified with
the executive forces of the Newark
Federal League club. Generally, the
operation of the sacrifice fly scoring
rule adds a few 800 hitters to an or
ganization, but it didn't in the Amer
lean last season. The record of the
Is presented below.
Red sox Leaders.
RED SoX-63.
Lewis. 13: Speaker. .; Gardner, 9; Hoblitzel
Scott. .; h9opeE a Gaino5: 4h l. hsnrrxsen Rarrx
Wood. /: Foster. i: Collins, /.
TIGERs-5s
yeach T.: Crawford 0: Cobb. .; Witt 6:
Burns, >; Bush. >; Dubae. 3: Young; 2; Cove.
Jacobson, l. Moriarty, /.
WHITE soX-52.
J, Collins. 49,; Fournier. 5: E. Collins. 5;
Jackson. ); schalk, 4: Backburne. 4: Weaver.
3: Roth. 3: Brief. q: Leibold 2; Russell. 2;
Felsch, i; Murphy, l. Mayer. l: Scott, l.
WHITE ELEPHANTS-51.
Lljoie, Is: McInnis. 6; Strunk. s. SchanE. 5;
Iapp. 4: Walsh. 3: Barry. 3: Eressler, 3; Old
ring. l. Kopf 1: Murphy, l; Davies 1; Sheehan,
!: seibold. 1: Healey, 1; II. Davis, 1; Fill
Gngim, l.
NATIONAIS-JO
Foster. 4: Gandil. 6; Williams. 5: C. Milan.
4; Shanks. Il Morgan. 4; Acosta. 3: Mcbride, 2;
Henry. >. johnson. ,; Connolly, .; Judge, 2;
NeT. 3 Ainsmith, =; Moeller. l. Mayer, 1 Bar
Der. l.
YANKEESss-
Hartzeu. 6: Bauman. 8: Boone, 5: Maisel, 4;
Pipp, 3: High. .; Peck, 2, Caldwell, 9; Nuna-
maker, =: Sweeney. 2; Cree, /; Alexander. /;
Fisher. L. Hendry1, l.
BROWNS-36
Pfatt. =: C. Walker. 5; Howard, S; Austin. B;
Iavan. .; Sister, =; ASnew, 2: Kaufman, =;
Jacobson. :; E. Walker. 2; Severoid. /; Leary.
!; Williams, i; Lee, J.
INDIANS31.
Chapman, 5: Graney, 5; Smith. 4: O'Nein, 4;
jackson =: Roth, 2: Wambsganss, 2: Egan, 2;
Kirke. L, Barbara, /; Hammond, 1; Mitchell, 1;
Hoffman. /.