The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-04
CONTESTS ARE CLOSER
IN NATIONAL LEAGUE
Senior Circuit Has Fewer High Score Games Than American
League Last Season-Runs Are Cheap in Philadelphia,
60 Especially on August IS With the Indians.

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major leagues last season furnish some
Interesting fuel for the Hot stove
NleAgue. writes Short Stop In the New
York Sun. An analysis OF the box
scores will show that on the whole
tho National League games were closer
than those in the American. At least
the hieh score statistics would indi-
cato that there were a good many
more lopsided games in Ban john
sons circuit than in the league COM
manded by Governor Tener.
There were forty-four games in the
I American League in which the win
ming club pounded out ten runs or
more. There were only twenty-three
similAr games in the National League.
Had the National League possessed
such . football to boot around as the
hapless Athletics there might have
been Z good many moro high score
xAmea There were q full dozen games
in the American League In which the
opponents Of the Mackmen knocked
out ten runs or more.
The Yankees collected the greatest
number of runs in one afternoon when
they exploded stick OF dynamite I'M
der the Cleveland Indians during a
Sabbath game In the Sixth City. and
won over tho Fohlites by q score OF
~ to 2.
IankS NO Ing n fJyVIh
However. the Yanks did not figure
extensively in the high score games
last season. Their pitchers usually
held the other fellows within respect
able bounds. while Donovaa's cohorts
seldom ran their run output into dou-
BILE figures. There were three games
in which the Yankee hurlers permit
ted ten runs or more and three others
In which the New York Americans
rang up ten runs or more.
The worst setback suffered by the
Yankees last season came on July rs.
when the White Sox beat them Is to
s. Though the Yankees held their
own with Chicago on the season s
play, when the White Sox spanked
them they made a thorough job of II.
Comiskey's team beat New York on
another occasion IL to 4.
The pitchers of the worlds cham
pion Red Sox proved their worth, IN
asmuch as they figured In the losing
end Of only two of the forty-four
American League games in which IL n
or more runs were scored. The Red
Eox. however, won five games In
which they scored enough runs to get
them In the high score division
The thumpers on Cleveland and Do
sroit heaped the most humiliation
upon American League pitchers
There were eleven games In which
the Indians rolled up ten runs or more.
. while the Tigers won nine such con-
tests.
A Philadelphia Carnival
Runs were cheaper in Philadelphia
on August IS than at any other time
during the season. Thirty-four runs
were scored during the course of an
/. Athletic Cleveland double header.
The Indians won a brace of games
by scores OF 3 to 9 and 10 to 2.
The weakness of the Giants last
season. with the exception OF their
May and September spurts, was gem
orally believed to be the pitching
star, yet II Is 10 the credit of Nc
Graw's twirlers that in only one game
during the entire season did their OPP
ponents make as many as ten runs.
That was during that horrible stretch
N August. when Pfttsburg won a
Axane by 10 to /. The Giants run
in that game was the result of two
Pittsburg errors. and came after New
York had failed to score for some
\ forty consecutive innings
-Tnere was only one other big
ieaxue team which evaded high score
defeats as skillfully as the Giants.
rhat was Philadelphia
The Giants put over more high
score victories than any other Ma
tionai League team. Six of the TWEEN
.ty-three high score games In. the
fener circuit were won by the
Giants Four OF those were made In
Nav. Three OF these came In the
sprinr drive of seventeen straight.
and the fourth arrived the day the
streak was broken After Perrstt was
stopped in the morning on Memorial
Day, the Giants tried TO get revenge
in the afternoon game. when they
ser,t the great Aleck TO cover.
New York Clubs Feature.
II Is interesting to note. however.
that during the September run OF
.twenty-six straight victories there was
not q single game in which New York
scored as many as ten runs.
As the Yankees piled up the big
rest score In the American League,
the two National League members OF
Greater New Yor,,'s baseball family
arc tied for the honor OF having made
the biggest score during the year In
the National League Both the
Giants and Robins won games In
vhtch they made thirteen runs.