The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-05-10
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For Example, Watson Out1attGd
kauff by Wide Margin.
SHORTEN is ALSO SIGHTED

Providence Center Fielder Some Pill
BeIter-LeliveIt Set the Pace Both |
With the Stick and In Field In Amer
lean Association.
Ty Cobb won the battling champion
ship of the American league. and Lar
ny Doyle led the sluggers of the Ma
tional league. They were out in front
by fair margin, with no one to dis
pute their claim, but a glance through
the official baseball record will show
that most leagues had their nominal
leaders-men who played in a few
games and smashed out a sufficient
number of hits to boost their average
above that Of those who fought through
the long campaign for the pennant. In
several instances these nominal lead
crs played in fifty games or more, act
ing as pinch hitters, and their claim
for preference might be hon0red by
many.
There was that modest, sensitive and
blushing Benny kaun lie dubbed the
ball for an average Of 81, but Wat
son. who started with the Tip Tops
and finished the season with the Buff
falo Blues, was ahead of him with an
average of 1876 compiled in twenty
nine games, in which he faced the
pitcher forty eight times and poled out
nineteen hits. This was pretty heroic
action by Watson, and the pity is that
he did not get into the game more Of
ten. He might pcrchance have estab-
lished a valid claim to supremacy.
Shorten, the center fielder of the
Providence team, is entitled to consid-
Grafton in the international league He
compiled the perfectly good average of
800. yet ranked only sixth. Chester
Hof, the left handed pitcher, went on
II wild jamboree in his twenty-nine
games, facing the pitcher siXty-nine
times and getting himself twenty-cight
hits. Charley Mullin. with Richmond
part of the season, hit .371 in thirty
nine games, while Ed Barney. once
with the Yankees and later with the
Pirates, connected at Il $50 clip in
siXty-two games. Roth of Toronto was
right UP there with Il mark of .332 il
ninety-seven games. and his claim is
perhaps as valid as. Shorten's, for q
man could not carry a squirt through
so many games for such an average.
LeIivelt Is Some Batter.
Jack Lelivclt once with the CIeve-
land Maps, later with the New York
Yankees and now with the Kansas
City team of the American association,
might have had his failings, but he
saIV 4 4
ent 300 sticller in the majors, and he
has shown no inclination to rest on
his laurels in the circuits of minor
classification. Playing through 10
games last year. Jack rolled up an av.
crage Of .34G ana was the actual lead
err, although Mayer, Il team mate. club
bed 1861 in seventeen games. Lelivelt
played first base last year and Sc
cleverly that he led the league IL
fielding as we'll as hitting.
Jimmy Johnston, the outfeder of tn,
Oakland team, who viii be with tn,
Superbas next summer. has about a
strong claim to supremacy in hi
league ms any other man. Jimmy playeo
in 2O6 games, was at bat 7SS times anC
made 2J6 hits for the grand average 0
4 .34S. He is placed behind Harry VOL
ter, once with the Yankees, who TOP
n ped him by eleven points, but VIII
played i'll fifty-siX fewer games. Wo
verton, Heilman and Brief, none @
whom played in 100 games, also wer
ranked in front of the Superba to be
but only WOlter has any more vali
claim to the championship than he.
The South Atlantic, the Virginia an
the Canadian leagues boast of me
who have clear title to the Leadership
Chancey Of Macon, in the South Altar
tic league, stood out with a mark {
.359; Thrasher, of the Norfolk team c
the Virginia league, compiled an ave
age Of .3IS, while Burril, of the Bran
ford team Of the Canadian circuit, su
yeyed the world from the pinnacle of
.344 average.
Pirates May Grab Pirates.
Sheldon Lejeune, with Sioux Cit
who was up with the Superbas sever;
seasons ago ana who may wear the Ii
cry Of the Pirates next summer. ce
tainly laid into the delivery of Il
pitchers of the Western league. L
jeune clouted away at the rate of 50