El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-12-31

TT was George Moriarty, former
Tiger and present American
/ league umpire, who, being asked
by an iuquisltlve scribe 20 give him
q new idea for a dope story. suggested
that It would be a good thing TO keep
track OF the fields tho athletes hit 20.
This has been done on the % three
furlong drives by Tyrus Raymond
Cobb during 1917, the result being as
follows:
Fifteen went TO right.
-Four went 10 center.
Two went 10 left.
One went TO left center.
One went 20 right center.
The way the Peach was manufac-
turing triples along i'm June and July.
IL looked certain ne would slatter to
infinitesimal smithereens the three
base hit record Of his own league
and after that camp on the trail Of
the National league record for blows
of the same character Possessed of
y triples when the dopesters took Off
their trial balances on July 81. IyruS
Raymond suddenly began to specialize
in singles and doubles. and during
the balance o. the season blew him
self 20 only Two more threc-masted
shots. both o. these being off 81. Louie
n0Zmen-
jackson and Crawford.
The American league record FOR
triples is Jointly held by sam Craw-
ford and jos Jackson, with 90; the
National league record IS owned by
J. owen ("ChieF'D Wilson, with SO.
When Wilson, whose name is still
on the reserve list of the St. Louis
Cardinals. went on his TRIPPING jam
boree five years ago. fans We're pull
ing for him TO break phantom rec
ord. for IL had been accepted as o
fact that Napoleon Lajoie Of CleVe-
land, in 1905, had poled 43 three-bag-
GOers-
Investigations carried on showed
that TIE King had made 30 OF
these hits through n typoErHphi-
cal error-th1ts in fact. he only
had made IL. The record the
sChief- did smash was one hung up
by Jimmy Williams, former Pr
rate. Griole, Yankee and Brown,
isI 1890. James Thomas then made
- near home runs.
quite a Few OF CObb's % triples
this past season were near home runs
for in the front section Of the bar
gain bill between the Tigers and
the Ianks in Detroit on July p, the
Peach. TRIPPING twice, twice was
caught at the plate attempting to
stretch his three-baggers into four
Helped His Team.
That Cobb's trinles and daring
helped his team greatly is shown by
the fact that i'm the 90 games in which
Tyrus Raymond emitted three-bag-
gers the JunElemeu only were defeat
ed once and only were tied once In
their lone loss TO the Yankees on June
s. by a score of 8 20 !, Cobb drove
in his teams bachelor score with a
three-ply clOut
The Detroit Demon. on three
occasions during the year, kicked
in Vvith two trs1Ics iu the same
game ON June L., against
Schauer OF the Athletics: on June
l.. against shore and Pennock OF
the Ped SoN. and ON July II,
against Love Of the Yankees.
OF CObb's % triples. 10 were made
off right hauders. seven of left hand
ers. The northuaWs DE reached for
three Dangers were SChlUer OF PhiIa-
delphia, 9; SeiAold OF Philadelphia, ..
SnaWEey OF New York. =; shore OF
Boston. I: Faber Of chicago, J Wolf
gang OF Chicago. I- KEEPER OF Cleve-
land. ]; Russell OF New York, /; E0g-
ers Of ST. Louis, I, Davenport OF ST.
Louis. 1; Groom of ST. Louis, 1. and
DuMOnt Of Washington, l. The south
paws who were Jared for triples
were Love Of New York. o. Penuock
Of Boston. i: Leonard OF Boston, j.;
Koob Of st. Louis. /; and Harper OF
Hooper Injured.
On only one OF the Peacls near
home runs did a fielder get his hands,
and said fielder-Harry Hooper of the
Red S11-ue-rlr had his hands torn
c1arr- &c is q matter of historical
record that on the old Hilltop grounds
Harry WOlte-, nov with the Cubs
tried IN eaten a nome run off tu1h's
bat and got broken paw for ms