Evening journal., 1916-10-24
VEACH IN THE 800
Class This YEAR
Tiger Star Would Have
Batted Only .294 Without
Sacrifice Fly Ruling
PIPP TIES HIM
FOR THE HONOR

celebrated wrecking crew OF CraW
ford. Cobb and Veach. in the Ameri-
can Leagues 300 society. this year
The Kentuclians average, under the
rules in force prior to 1908, would
have been .294 There flew from his
bat 10 drives that. caught by outtield-
ers. nevertheless scored men from
third.
Veach was not the American
Leagues champion sacrifice fly pro
ducer, merely tying for that honor
with Wallie Pipp, Of the Yankees
whose first work in the Johnson or
ganizaticn was done for the team
which employs Slugging Sam, Thump--
ing Ty and Billing Bob. Veach and
Pipp had company in the double ilg
ure class. Derrill Pratt, of the
Browns. raising II aerial sacrifices
and George Sisler and Amanda Mar
sans. Of the same combination, each
10.
The leaders in the American League
in sacrificing fly hitting in 1919 were
Duffy Lewis of the Red SoX, and Ma
poleon Lajoie of the White Elephants
these two men making the same rec
ord as Veach and PipD this year
Veach, in 1915. came through with a
dozen run-producing soarers. the dou-
bic figure men of that year. numbering
three. as against five this season.
Iris Speaker, American League bat
ting leader, made the same number OF
sacrifice flies this year that he did
last-nine-while Tyrus Cobb, depos-
ed pace setter, kicked in only with
four in 1916. as against nine in 1915.
Best Sacrifice Hitting Team.
In sacrifice fly hitting this past sea-
son Veach excelled for the Tigers,
Pipp for the Yankees. Pratt for the
Browns: Gandil, Speaker and Roth for
the Indians; Jackson for the White
Sox. Lewis for the Red Sox. Smith for
the Nationals and Laioie and McInnis
for the Athletics. This would be the
American Leagues BEST sacrifice fly
hitting team
Pitcher-Sisler, st. Louis. 10 sacri-
fee flies.
-schalk. Chicago, six sac
rifce flies.
First Baseman-Pipp, New York, 1S
sacrifice flies.
Second Baseman-Pratt. St. Louis,
II sacrifice flies.
Third Marsans. st. Louis,
10 sacrifice flies.
Shortstop-W Weaver, Chicago. six
sacrifice flies.
Left Fielder-Veach. Detroit. 13
sacrifice flies.
Centre Fielder-S Speaker. Cleveland,
nine sacrifice flies.
Right Fielders-Roth. Cleveland,
nine sacrifice flies
The Tigers raised the greatest num-
ber Of sacrifice flies-61-and the
Athletics the smallest number-25.
Chicago was credited with so. New
York, AZ: ST. Louis. 40; Boston. 80;
Washington, &c. and Cleveland. %.
No Johnsonite succeeded in manu-
featuring an aerial sacrifice in all
seven series he participated in. Veach,
PipD. Pratt, Marsans and Speaker al
most doing so. and failing againht
only one club Speaker hit in no tai
lies via the air route in the games
with the Yanks. Veach failed against
Boston Pipp against Boston, Marsans
against Boston and Pratt against Chi
cago. The greatest number of sacri- /
fees OF the new-fangled kind in a SER
les was five. Veach had this record
against St Louis; Crawford against
Washington and Sisler against Phila
delpbia.
Ten Players Turn Trick.
II seems to be a physical impossi |
bility for an athlete to raise three
sacrifice flies in one conflict The
feat has been done once. but never in
the American League. Last season 10 !
Johnsonites were able to drive In two
runs in a contest with aerial suicides,
these men being Gardner. OF Boston
Reth, of Cleveland; Schalk and E.
Collins. of Chicago Pipp and Peck. of
New York; Burns and Veach. of De- /
roit. Sisler of ST. Louis. and Henry.
Of Washington.
In 40 American League games this
year the winning run came in on a
fly raised to the outfield Boston win
ming . games in this manner Wash
ington Z, Chicago s. st. Louis 5. Cleve-
land g. Detroit t. New York 4, and
Philadelphia one Detroit took a g.
too fall out of Washington on July
2S, all the Tiger tallies being due to
aerial sacrifices The White Sox. on
April 49, jammed four sacrifice flies
into their game against the Jungle
men and won. s TO 4.
Players who won two games for
their teams by sacrifice flies this sea
son were Lewis. Scott and Hooper, of
Boston; Shanks. of Washington Pratt
and Sisler of st. Louis and Four
nier. of Chicago. Strunk. Of Ph'ladel-
phia. twice saved his team from shut
outs at the hands of Dauss, of De
troit. by coming through with long
flies when men were on third.
The American Leaguers who raised
three or more sacrifice flies last sea
son are:
Raised 1S-Pipp. New York, and
Veach. Detroit.
Raised 11-Pratt. st. Louis.
Raised 10-Sisler and Marsans, st.
Louis.
Raised 9-Gandil. Speaker and Roth.
Cleveland.
Raised S-Jackson. Chicago: Craw-
ford. Detroit; Magee. New York.
Raised Tt. Collins. Felsch and
Fournier Chicago; Heilman and
Burns. Detroit.
Raised 6-Lewis. Boston: Weaver
and Schalk. Chicago: Vita. Detroit;
smith. Cleveland Washington.
Raised 5-Laioie and Mclnnis. Phil !
sdelphia WanbagarEs. Cleveland,
Pecldnpaugh. New York: Gardner.
Hooper and Scott Boston: Shanks and
Henry. Warrington.
Raised chapman. Howard aud