The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-17
By ERNEST J. LANIGAN.

By ERNEST J.. LANIGAN.
Annually critics select All-American
teams composed Of the best baseball
and football players. but heretofors
the experts have not tried to pick
an all-s,ar combination of diamond
heroes who bring gridiron tactics into
play while the championship races are
being run. II In easy enough for a
dopester to find out the kimeifest
hitter in the country by keeping track
of the number Of runs he bats In and
1t liz no hard task to discover the OPP
perfume error-maker BY taking ac-
count Of the total tailtss he kicks In
Humorist PhAir picked as the sub
ject OF his poem the champion
''booter'' Of the diamond in Red Cor
riden. Ioganport. Indiana's. favor.te
son ranking first In both major leagues
in presenting runs TO the enemy. He
gave the Cubs adversaries twenty
counters last year by boots. muffs
and wild throws. One of his most pro-
ductive pegs (for the other fellows1
came on September ., In the fifth
inning of the game with the Pirates.
when three men crossed the plate
because OF an inaccurate toss
Corriden's companions on his myth
lcaI muffing team are. like himself.
I'm slight danger OF being released.
Most OF them are stars. with the haoi,
uf errinE just at the worst possible
.Irne.
Opportune Error Makers.
The battery Of the opportune error
making team OF the big leagues
would he composed OF Larry Cheney,
~ the Cubs, and Ray Schalk OF the
White soy. The big spitbaii expert
handed over thirteen runs to his team 2
opponents one through an error, nine
through Wild pitches. two on passes
aad one on a casualty complimentary,
hese three gifts. Of course, being do
ra{ed when the bases were loaded
tMeney lost a TO game to the Pr
f,.tes on MAY 8 when he GUIDED "A Wild
pitch while trying to pass Ham Hyatt.
an Fltowoff DAY. IA tire contest vii n
.b~ Reds, larry uneuiled four WHO
p.Irhes, ana his SUCCESSORS Elmer
Eoestuer. rid his system of enc, ON
battery niSplass that afternoon the
Ehiuclanders assembled six of their
seil markers. cheney had keen coni
petition 10 make tho champion ALI
smerican Muffing Team. "Rube'' Rem
ton. / Weldon WycRofy and Zerah
Hagerms n running strcn!y, The Red
tea gave away eleven runs, the two
American Leaxuers each ten. One
of l3enton's Wild pitches cost him q
shut -our. l3agernan lost a thirteen
inning box battle WIN F.Gais flAHk
hr Il wild heave. and Wyckoff helped
his record along hy dishing out five
isaases in a row
Ray schalks closest competitor
among the backstops was Chief
Movers. The chicagoan. by errors
let his teams opponents acquire seven-
teen rmnsi Thirteen tallies were
cha!ked up against the Giants be-
rause OF the Chiefs" foozlea A
wild throw in the ninth by Meyers
IN game with Cincinnati let She
igcklcss Leon Ames triumph over
The generally lucky 'christy Mathew
son. 10 O. John Henry. OF the Sena
tors. gave Cleveland win in the ninth
ey having a passed bali that let in
two runs. and Ivy wingo. of the Car
finals presented the Giants with a
triumph b. missing a third strike
when two were out and the bases
were full Two men scored.
The first basemen of this team o:
timely error-makers would be George
BURNS. of the Tigers. Eleven meu
ecampered over the plate because ot
his manual mistakes Fred Luderus
OF the Philiics. let in ten rwtls by
loose field play.
Pratt Star Second Stacker
An American Lacquer also gets the
call at second base, but the other
two places on the infieid go to Ma.
honal Leagncrs. Derrill Pratt. of tbs
Browns. was the George Burns OF the
second sackers. He erred so that
the Rickey's opponents picked ur
thirteen runs One OF his particular
off days was his wedding day. Bobby
- 4ha philt.aS and Hetpts