Evening star., 1916-03-12
Made Tigers Scramble.

made Tigers scramble.
Nabors pitched part of game against
the Tigers when the Junglemen made
their last trip to Philadelphia. and he
had them scrambling at all times to
get back to the bags. Smiths work in
a game in Cincinnati last fall drew
from a veteran base ball writer this
boost: TT seemed like gazing at one
Of the oldtime southpaws like a
glimpse back twenty-five years-to see
Smiths methods. He had the niftiest
way Of baking and getting by with
1t that I have seen in recent years
almost identically the Matt Kilroy
trick. with the wiggling foot. the
launching shoulder and the lightning
shot to first. Same old motions. same
balk? same success in trapping the
runners and same success in escaping
penalization from the umpires."
Smith. as told. led all hands in pick
bering fifteen. Hughes of the Braves
trapped twelve men off the pillows and
Adams of the Pirates and Cicotte of
the White Sox ten. The leaders Of the
other clubs were Alexander for the
Phillies and Boehling for the Nation
ais, with nine: Nabors for the White
Elephants, with eight; Coumbe for the
Indians. Tesreau for the Giants, Shore
for the Red Sox and Perdue for the
Cardinals. with seven; Toney for the
Browns. with five. and Cheney and
label for the Cubs. Dubuc and Dauss
for the Tigers and Caldwell and Shaw
key for the Yanks. with 4.
were picked off bases Nos. 1. and by
alert artillerists last season. Six per-
ished at third. f1fty-four at second and
the rest at first. Pitchers who defraud-
ed prominent pastimers of their rights
as baserunners by nipping them off
third were Niehaus of st. Louis and
McQuillan of Pittsburgh. in the Ma
tional. and Cicotte of Chicago, Leonard
of Boston, Fisher of New York and
Shawkey Of Philadelphia in the Amer
lean, their respective victims being Me
hoff of Philadelphia, OMara of Brook
lyn, Mcbride of Washington, Shotton
Of ST. Louis. Cobb of Detroit and Pipp
of New York.
Each Nipped Five.
In specializing at catching men off
second Carl Weilman of the Browns, a
Tiger nemesis, and Fritz Coumbe of the
Indians. who snapped the earliest of
the White Soxs winning streaks. star
red Each man gathered in five victims
at the keystone sack.
Joe Booming the senators, 1rank-
ed Bob Roth and Jack Graney of the
Indians in the sixth inning, September
13, and then promptly made the passes
of no value. by promptly plucking their
recipients off first, one after the other.
Charley Herzog and Kenneth Will
liams were each nipped Off first twice in
the same game. The Red pilot encoun-
tered this sad fate in Boston, May 27,
and the Rhineland private in Cincin-
natl, September "a. The men on the
f1vin Inc In ha fNln To-
Hughes and Sherrod Smith.
Washington's pitchers ranked tenth,
last year. in picking men off the has
socks. claiming 20. The White Ele-
sassinating 80. OF Griff's gunners,
Boehling got 9 men off the sacks, CAL
liza 4, Ayers 3, Engle 1. johnson 1, Rice
/ and Harper l. Their records are ap-
pended:
WASHINGTON, 20.
:. BY Boehlins. s-of frst.-Graney. Cleveland.
2; Maisel. New York. /; Speaker. Boston, 1;
Turner. Cleveland, 1: Leibold. Cleveland, /:
Roth. Cleveland. l: Weaver. Chicago. /, and
BY Gallia. 4-on first. Howard. ST. Louis ];
Grsney. Cleveland. 1. and wambsganss. Cleye.
land. !. or sec@ond.Weayer, @m Chicago, ].
and Austin. st. Louis, 1. on second Cobb, De-
troit. !.
BY Engel. 1-on hrst-strunk. Philadelphia.
BY Johnson, 1-Or nrst-southworth. Cleye-
land.
BY Rice, l-Of frst-Davies, Philadelphia
BY Harper, 1-0f second-Schang, PhiIadel-
phia.
Clyde Milan and Dan MoelIer were the
Washington players most frequently
caught off the bases by the pitchers last
season. Each was trapped four times.
The figures on the resident players:
Nationals Picked OFF Bases.
c. Milan. 4-On hrst-Caldwell. New York 1.
Shawkey. Philadelphia. I; Ancker, Philadelphia
l. and Ruth. Boston. 1.
Moeller. 4-On hrst-By Dauss, Detroit. l.
and Perryman. st. Louis. I. or secopd-Ry
Coumhe, Cleveland, 1, and Shawkey, PhiIadei-
phia. l.
Gandil 3-Of hrst-By Coumbe. Cleveland. 1.
and Majors. Philadelphia. 1. on secondly
Boston, l.
Henry. or hrst-By Shore. Boston. /, and
Hamilton, st. Louis, 1.
shanks. on hrst--By Scott. Chicago, 1, and
Crowell, Philadelphia, j.
williams, 1-On firstly Nabors, PhIladel- |
phia.
Jamison, 1-On drst-By Shore, Boston. |
Foster, 1-On frst-By Lowdermlk St Louis |
Acosta, 1-0G frst-By Brenton, Cleveland |
Sawyer. 1-On secondly Ray, Philadelphia |
Mcbride, 1-Of thirdly Cicotte, Chicago
Shaw, 1-Of secondly Scott, Chicago.
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