Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-09
BEST EATERS IN LOSING CLUBS;IP|ICHERS, CAUSE

NEW YORK, July S.-"A player on tail end team ought to hit from 10 to % points higher than he would if he were on a penncnt battling crew" yentured fan the other day.
 "HowBat?"
 Well, pitchers rarely work their heads of against cellar champs. Class tells in baseball. Usually before the fifth or sixth inning comes along, the good team is- so fir ahead that the game is practically sewed up. There fore the pitcher on ne top-heavy team saves his arm. He lobs them over, and, of course, the batsmen got more hits, thus fattening their averages.
 NOW take the case of the Giants and Larry Doyle lcst season." conti nued the farmer. "in 1915 the Giants blew themselves to the first champion batsmen they have had for many years. Also, the Giants finished in the cellar After August 15 they never had a chance to win the bunt- ing
 And, so. from t. t time on, the Op- posing pitchers didn't work so awfully hard against the Ciants-and Larry Doyle's average gre 7 so large that at the end of the year he led the peck.
 Lajoie and Others.
 Napoleon Lajoie never played on a championship team. Yet his batting average, year after year, was wonder full His grand hi ting mark ranks among the highest ever turned in. Only twice during | $ long caree. had LajOie been on a -lub that actually was in the fight Tor any extended period. Opposing clubs rarely found it hard to beat La. lie's team and so the rival pitchers frequently took it easy when heayins 10 Napoleon.
 ny Cobb did hig most tremendous hitting during the years when the Tigers were not ac ually in the fight for the bunting. | lring other years, when the crowd kC0t in the fight all through the season. Ty faced pitchers who were pitching } the full limit of their arms and bra Is, in an effort tO halt the Tigers.
 Joe Jackson ave aged somewhere around .370 while re was with the Cleveland club. He a. shipped to the White Sox, a tea that was in the pennant hunt for 9 while in 1915. and Joe turned in an a craze of 1908 last year
 'Practically eve- batsman in the game hits far bet, during the last month of the seaso than he Coes dur ing the first four ' eks. But that is easily explainable During the open ing month Of the lmpaign most of tine pitchers are edge. They twir their darnest. Ano nly the star fling CTS work during ( | period sushers Bat Tell in Fall. "But toward the lg end of the sea son, managers Of ubs that are ou of the race, begin experimenting fol the next season hey work thei youngsters. fresh rom the bushes Veteran batters fin it easy to connec with their twisters nd slants, and, a a result, the avera es fatten. You've often no 'e, too, that som ! of the minor leagu. batting stars, get | ting a major tryou in the fall, show ! up well with the 1dgeCn. It seem ' then that the majC ty will laud. Bu in the springtime : ey cannot do an [ constant hitting ere's the answer ! "The minor leaG batters. eettin fall trial in the aiors. rarely fac
 major league pitc ng.r They go II 7 against the minor ague hurlers, wh
 are getting their rial. The bush hitters. therefore. ce the same cal ! ber. and of course find no troubl maintaining their 'nOr league ave . ages"