The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-12-10
Pipp of YankS Yields First
Place, Dropping Far Down
LiSS
BY ERNEST ]. LANloAN.

NEW YORK. Dec 6There are
number OF solid slugRcrs In the American
league. as the pitchers viii testify but
when II comes 10 batting In runs Bobhle
NruCh's name leads all the rest The
Detroit leftfinlder drove ll5 of his com
rades across the plate last senHOn,
There are many WAYS OF saving baseball
games fielder may do It with a start
ling CHtCh or n pitcher by striking out "a
mighty Casey or "A Cobb. There Is, how
ever. only one way Of winning baseball
hJttles and that is by scoring runs, with
men on the bases pitcher In handi-
capped by the fact that he must hurry
his delivery and cannot use his wind up
", here, with the edge supposedly In
his favor, IL where many man with II
high batting average liz helpless He
can hit when It means little, hut he can
not come through In the pinch
The man. then, OF greatest offensive
value to his team ls not necessarily the
man with the tallest batting average or
The long hitter. but the man who drives
the most tullics across that plate. That
s what the manager must consider In
making up his batting order and that Is
where the table OF runs batted In shows
tho team value OF player such aa
Noach,
Ppp Lends Lsst Year.
Walter Pipp Of the Yankee. who led
the league In this department In 1915.
year Detroit had great representa-
Not only was Veach first I'm sending
runners across the rubber but Cobb, was
necoud and Hsilman nth, Felsch Of
Chicago was third and Jackson OF the
same club sixth, while Roth OF Cleveland
was fourth.
. Lewis Of Boston, Baker Of the Yam
KEGS aud Ping Bode Of the Athletics
complete the list Of the first ten nen In
diving in tnllles Last season Pinp bat
ted In nincty-nlne runs This year he
batted In only seventy-twO, but that was
enough to lead all other New York bats
men. Baker WAS second with seventy
and HendryS and Pecklnpaugh tied for
third with forty-five.
Cobb Leads on Actual Hlts.
on actual base hits Ty CobD drove IN
ninety four men to VeRch's ninety three,
but OV outs Seach sent twenty two play
ers ACROSS to CobbB fourteen. This
would apRar to indicate that when
there wns runner on third Neach was
pretty generally there with the punch.
In Detroit they think lot Of Bobbie
veach. They will tell you that while
there Ia only one Ty cobb, when IT comes
to question OF value to his team Neach
is not far behind the Georgia Ghost
Pitchers ordinarily are Not supposed
to regard bat as anything but an
ornament, but Ray Caldwell drove IN
more runs than Walters, Magec or Bau-
mann and only n few less than High
'rhe manner in which Ray can wallOp
that bali on occasion would lead to the
belief that he really is not pitcher at
| heart
Had Ty Cobb, instead OF running sec
ond led his league IN the batting In of
| runs this year II would not have been
| tho first time he had attained that prom
nenCe. sfrum 1907 TO 1911 inclusive the
Georgian was out In front In 1871 he
batted In IA runs. The man to come
| closest to that mark was Frank Baker
In 1912, when he batted In 1873 tallies
II In interesting 10 notice who the
lenders were I'm batting In runs accord
ing to the positions they played For
instance, Chapman, at shortstop. outhit
Scott by comfortable margin and yet
Scott batted In eleven more runs. Plpp
led Slsler by nineteen runs and Mclnns
ny twenty-s six. Baker sent far more
runners across than either Wit OF
Weaver.
On eight occasions some Washington
PLAYER cleared the bases with a douhh,
II triple or home run. Six times a
member OF the Athletics did H. five times
a Detroit player, and four times a man
on the champion White SoX SEVERED
was the only St Louis hitter who
emptled the sacks with one blow last
season and he did It with n double
which he made OF Williams OF Chicago