Evening journal., 1915-01-07
BY HAL SHERIDAN.
rritten for the United Press.)

(Written for the United Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. Grand old dope
box gets another shaking up. A care
full perusal of the Federal League bat
ting averages for the season Of 1914,
recently made public by the genial
Mr.. Gilmore, will shake ones faith in
that old adage that Figures don't lie"
They must not lie but they certainly
mystify when one gazes over the
marks set up by some of the bats
men in the third loop last year.
Athletes who clubbed out three hun
dred and better averages in the Ma
tional and American League slumped
down in the two fifty class in the
Federal League. And on the other
hand some who couldn't even pile up
/ two hundred mark in the Johnson and
Tener circuit slugged for three hun
dred and more in the third league.
4 That's where the dope box gets a
shaking up.
The case of Josephus Tinker is one
of the glaring kind. Along with his
woes as manager of the Cincinnati
Reds in 1913 Joe managed to exc OUT
. a puny average of .311 against Ma
tiOnal League pitching. Well' Joe
himself and several others thougn'
what he would do to the twirlers IN
the Federal League would be sname
II was, but not the kind of shame
that was predicted. Tinker managed
TO amass an average Of just .259 IL
the Gilmore circuit-a fall of 5S points
from his work in the National League
, Danny Murphy, once star in th'
Athletic outfield, was a little more
consistent. He walloped the leathe
! for .322 with the Athletics in 1913
. Last wear with the Brookfeds he club
, bed out a mark of .S11. Art Crlggs, II
. the International League in lsl5
: pounded .292. Last season with IN
Feds he dropped to .2S2. Georg
d, Stovall. in-his last year in the Amer
lean League, had mark Of .2S1. A
. the leader of the Kansas City Fe
: tribe in 1914 he could pile up an ay
s erage of but .270.
O Those named are some Of the one
q who went down the ladder There ar
Z on the other hand some who went u
- even farther than the others descend
Is cd OF these Hal Chase stands on
the most prominent. In 1913, !
10 Ban Johnson's loop. the first sacke
70 who once was the pride of Gotham
70 slammed the ball for an average
10 257 Last season, with the Buffal
Is Feds he returned to his form OF tol
q mer days with the Yankees by chall
- ing ND an average of .354.
IS steve Yerks was another who foun
c the brand of pitching on the Federi
4 - IA CnHE(
64 with the Pittsburgh Feds he slammS
10 tie ball 70 an average oil .SSS; 10. "a
35 mark in the American League IN ~
was .267, giving him a gain OF siXr
six points. - A.. c
Frank LaPorte, formerly OF the
ty Louis Browns and the Washlngt'
nj senators. batted $50 in the Americi
o. League. with Indianapolis, the r.
th League pennant winners last seaso
n he was good for mark OF 81.
re Art Wilson. when he was with q
ee Giants I'm 1918, couldn't even top q
ke two hundred mark, his average bell
10 100. With Tinker's Chifed ere
least season he chalked up .2Sf,
gain of nearly one hundred points.
ew New York's premier promoters a
ngi nreparing to go out OF business n
a saw they can't continue longer Wh
on the top-notch boxers demand as mu
ing for their services as they do now.
vas 1t is a recognized fact that boxl
by bouts no longer draw crowd unlt
M two well known stars are perfor
lne ing. Jimmy Johnston, manager
the association that conducts sho
in Madison Square Garden has ma
. an effort to stage nothing but his
class shows all winter. His sho
a have been of the best quality, Dut
y date very little profit has been ma
D The boxers are getting most OF
= money
a Champions and near champions
y demanding all the way from So''
y to $4,000 for meeting a very or
b nary opponent in a ten-round
decision bout. The promoters hi
been meeting these demands but
signs are that they won't contir
? to do so much longer. Unless SO
of the top-notchers decide to u
. less for their work. a scarcity
! high class bouts is in sight.
y The Federals seem to have
~ edge" on in the merry little basel
= wrangle. Ray Caldwell has Jun