Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-19
RUNS VA FLY ROUTE
Wingo. Veach and Pipp Make
Most Aerial Sacrifices.
EACH OF THE TRIO GETS 10
BY ERNEST ]. LANIGAN.

The 1916 leader in the National
League in sacrifice tiies-Catcher Ivy
Wingo Of the Reds-raised the same
number of these valuable soarers as
this years pacesetters in the American
League, who were Bobby Veach of the
Tigers and Wallie Pipp of the Yanks-
namely, thirteen. Wingo accomplished
two feats in the sacrifice fly line not
duplicated by any player in either OF
the two big leagues-he was the only
.yastitner 10 twice make a pair of aerial
sacrifices in cne game. and the lone
.hle-e to knock in at least one run
against all seven Of his opponents. OF
A,ingo's thirteen sacrifice hies. three
came in games with Chicago. three in
games with Pittsburgh, two in games
with Boston, two in games with Brook
i,.r. one il! a game with New York, one
in a game with Philadelphia and one
in a game with st. Louis. The days the
Red receiver assembled a pair of sacri-
fee flies were May %. against Chicago
and JuIr > AGAINST Pittsburgh. On the
last tioneG date ivy's second
searer sent in the Winaing run in the
Tirate-fed debate, the Rhinelanders
r.og..iIt:t ali thiee o. their TALES Tla
the sky line
'tc.al League player goJ into the
double figure class in sacrifice flies,
George Cutshaw of The Robins toelns
tHc nark with ten. Heinie Zimmerman
elevated nine and SO did the man III
was traded for-Larry Doyle. "Gavvy"
travath OF the Fhilies raised the same
rurlber as the present Giant and for
mer Giant.
Sacrifice flies made no difference in
the 1916 membership Of the National
Leagues Society of the Three Hun
Gred, for none of the men in the swat
ting sun reached that spot on account
II the scoring change adopted In 1905
ct the suggest ion Of Billy Murray. for
uler Phillie manager. Walter Holke OF
me Giants and Miller Huggins Of the
Cardinals did not make any airline
sacrifices, and 50 their batting aver
res, calculated in the old way, would
lave been the same.
Charging lhem with a time at bat
for each sacrifice fly raised. as was the
rule prior 20 1905, would have mace
ew .IcCarthy's average .33e. IA!
d; 'iraSr's 49,, Jake pauherts .3l3 Bill
Iincpman's .3i2. Roge" Hornshy's 81,
zach ftneat's .309 ana DAVIS Robert
.on's 3G: chase. Robertson ard W heat
cara made six outfield sacrifces.
lfirchG,an Eve. Bauhert tour. Horns y
40 ard NcCarty one.
'rha Giants ranked first in sacrifice
-r;r.s raising IS. This total was three
t.ss than the number manufactured by
u. Tigels. who showed the way In the
American League in sacrifice fly hit
t.r. TIE Braves ranked next TO the
Giants with u: the fhillies We're thru,
9TH ~: The Reds fourth. with Al, the
Robins fifth. with 81: the Cardinals
sixth with SO: the Pirates seventh,
With 81 ana the CUBS eighth. with 80.
Tho eight team leaders We're W:ngo for
s-irciunati Doyle for New York, konct-
chy for Boston. Cravath for Fhila.iel-
,,llia Gu sl3aw for Brooklyn. Smith for
81 Louis. Zimmerman for Cnicago ana
fIinchman and Wagner for Pittsburgh h.
Tn. National League clubs record in
sgrrif.ce flies last season is appended:
New YORK 5.-Doyie, 9: Flet"he", !;
Robertson ard Burns, each, 3; RaFi-
den. lohcrt Kauff and Herzog, each. !;
Zimmerman and Nckcchnie, each. ):
f.erritt. Mathewson. Kelly. TesIau, NC
garty. Merkle. Sallee and RouSh. each. J.
Boston. 51-konetchy, :; Sm II, t and
rick. each. ): Egan and Maramyilie
each. /: Evers, Blackburn. Wilhoi1.
compton aud Connolly, each. 2: Snod-
grass, Collins, Rudolph and Reulbach.
each !.
dsrus, :; Nhitteli, e. stock and Good.
each. ): Niehof. 4; Burns and Paskert'
each. 9: Cooper. :; RiXey oesehser'
Alexander, Banc,o Oft and Mayer: each. !.
cincinnati. 4l-Winco. 10: Chase. 6:
Cfroh, 4; I.ouden and Herzog. each, 3;
roush and Fisher. each, ?: Clarke.
Hobbs Griffith. Nsaie, 1oHeE, beall,
Eillefer and Mol!witz. each. 1.
brooklyn. 37-Cutshaw. 10; Wheat.
c; Mowrcy. ;; Stengel and Daubert,
each, 4: Myers. 3; Johnston, 2; Getz.
Tfeffer ard Miller, each, l.
St Louis, 36-Smith, 6: Snyder. Miller
and Bescher, each, 5; Long and Wilson.
each, 3: Butler. Bethel. Gonzales and
liornsby. each, ,: Meadows. l.
J,iirsb,1rgh 33-Hinchman and WaG-
ner each 3; Warner. Schultz and
johnston, each. 3; Schmidt and Carey. !
cach,~ ,: Knabe. Wilson. McAuley, |
o'Brien, Farmer. MamauX, Barney. GID
som Smvkal and NioX, each, !.
chicago 30-Zimnlerman, 8; Will |
liams. 5: Safer and Archer. each, 3.
Wilson, F'lack and Zwilling. each, 2;
,. Mann. Schultz, Tinker and Fischer. |
each. I.
In thirty-four National League games