Evening journal., 1915-05-15
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Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
A bets that the Giants will win
the series from Brooklyn. There are
three games in the series. The
Giants win the first: the second and
third arc postponed on account of
rain. Does A win the bet or must
he wait until the two postponed
games are played off? G.
No series between the Giants and
Superbas this season has been limited
TO one game. The Giants won first
series, two games TO one, and the
Superbas took the second series, two
games TO one.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
% Kindly let me know il there
was a double-header scheduled at the
Polo Grounds the day Kauff tried to
play with the Giants. (2) Do tho Ma
tional League clubs play double-head-
ers before July 4? j. X. G.
CD No. CD They do not start dOu-
BILE headers till the second swing out
on the circuit That comes In June.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
A bets that Wheat of the Brook
lyn Nationals is a better outfielder
than Ty Cobb. Kindly give their
respective batting and fielding aver
ages. w.
Cobb Is Wheat's superior. Cobb In
1914 hit .s6S and tieldcd .949. Wheat
I'm 1914 hit .319 and iielded .962.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
% How would you rate the follow
ing fighters? Silent Martin. AL Me-
Coy. George Chip, Jimmy Clabby? GU
How would you rate the following
players? G.. Burns, Z. Wheat, b. Kauff
and Cravath? JACK.
U Clabby, Chip, Silent Martin, Me-
Coy. (2) TOss-up between Wheat and
Burns; kauff and Cravath.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
Q) A bets Terry McGovern held
both feather and light weight titles
p bets he only held the featherweight
title. CO Did Terry McGovern put
Joe Cans out in two rounds? MIKE.
0 Bantam and featherweight
titles. He never was lightweight
champion. (2) So il was set down
in the records. but Cans stopped"
pursuant TO scheme by which the
negrO's clique of handlers made q big
cleanup. On form McGoyern never
figured In Cans class.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL;
! I'D kac
Harry Lord or Arthur Devlin? r.
AZ their best. | should say Lord. as
he was a steady 300 hitter In his few
longer than Lord.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
With two balls and one strike, the
batter. trying to get out Of the way
OF a pitched ball. brings his bal
across the plate. The umpire calls II
strike. but the batter gets hit with
the ball on the arm. He then calls
him out for being hit by a ball he
struck at. Was he right in calling bat
ter out? f. J. p.
Umpire certainly erred in calling
man out IL he only had one strike he.
fore swinging. Either II was the sec.
on strike or the batter took his base
WOuld say he should get his base II
he tried to get out Of the way Of the
ball.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL:
J None out, with bases full. when bat
ter pops to shortstop. Instead Of
! catching the fly, shortstop let's ball
bounce, makes a quick pickup and
, forces man at home. Catcher ther
throws to third and forces man from
second. thereby completing double
play Now. what I want to know is
must the fly be caught. or is il al
right TO make this play? NUT.
Fly need not have been caught
but umpire should have called The
batter ont as soon as he hit the ia
field fly. The infield fly rule wat
adopted Just TO prevent such double
plays.
Sport Editor EVENING JOURNAL.