The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-22
Zimmerman
Ranks with
800 HitterS
McGraw's Much Planned
Third Baseman Has Rec
ord That Shows His Real
Value to Any Ball Club.

While National League batting rec
ords showed that the Giants had two
300 hitters last season in Benny
Kauff and George Burns, they have
only one man who owns membership
in the well known ad highly popular
society of the Three-Hundred. He is
neither Kauff nor Burns, but the
much maligned Heinie Zimmerman.
The man from the Bronx possesses a
stick credit of .302 for all the time no
has been working in the parent or
sanitation. He has been in it since
late in September, 1907, when he got
a chance to play in the Worlds Series
and obtained a small slice of the prize
money.
Burns and Kauff are not real zoe
hitters as yet, based on their accom-
pIishments for all time in fast COM
pany, but both of them are near the
charmed mark and may be compan-
ions of Zimmerman by the time the
! 1918 averages are promulgated. Zim-
norman can slump little 4 his stick
work next year and remain among
those limited few who can show a 300
batting crerit for all the time of their
service on the big circuits. He must
have had a whale of an average after
! the close of the 1913 campaign, for
that vas the last year he was in the
lists of the highly considered hitters.
No team probably can show as
many real hitters, season in and sea-
son out, as the Giants based on the
lifetime accomplishments.
Zimmerman, playing in 1,161 games,
/ has made hits for a percentage of
1902, and is one of the few National
leaguers, it is thought who can show
for each contest more than one clout.
The next hardest hitter among the
Giants, based on the records of all
time in the majors fs Walter Holke.
He has hit the ball at a .290 clip, but
cannot, like Zimmerman show a base
knock for each combat, having. made
| 1856 wallops in 1877 games.
- McGraw's. third hardest hitter is
| George Burns, with a record of .2SS
for 735 contests. Like the great Zin
he has been able to average more than
one rap to the game. He has produc-
ed SS1.
Ranking fourth stands Benjamin
Michael KaUff, whose work in 307
tussels has netted him an average Of
1856. Here is another man who has
succeeded in getting one safety to the
game, for his total of hits with the
Giants is 31S.
Davis O. Robertson, follows on the
heels of bashful Benny, with a mari
of .2S5 for 515 games, and is in tht
class with Zimmerman, Burns ant
Kauff in averaging a blow for eacl
a Of
546.
Arthur Fletch, like Zimmerman,
man who has played in more than
thousand games on the older circui
hasn't been able to make a hit 70
each game, but has pretty nearly don
SO. His total record shows he ha
played in LOLA battles, has placed tn
ball out of the reach Of the fielder
on 1909 occasions and has compile
a record of .277. In five campaign
his average was far better than thai
Lew McCarty, used frequently as
pinch hitter by Wilbert Robinson an
John McGraw, has torn off 25S hit
in 319 debates. His National 1.eagu
average for all time is .267.
Lew outhit Charles Lincoln Hero
by one point, Herzy having uncovere
1,073 wallops in 1,14S controversial
The Marylander during the early PAL
of his career with the McGrawites wa
largely used for pinch running pun
poses. That is the reason he is not
the hit a game class with Zimmerman
Burns, Kauff and Robertson.
Bill Rariden, who did his first bi
leaguing a year after Herzog, has
mark of .234 for the time he has pee
in the National. This mark is derive
from $50 hits in 513 games.
The list of players now in the gan
who have a grand batting average {
800 or better for all the time the
have played in the majors is not
long one, by the way. 1t begins wit
Ty Cobb, who has hit better than 81
as an average for 10 years in majo
dom. It includes Joe Jackson. TT
Speaker, Eddie Collins, Hans Wagn'
(who has retired). Frank Baker, Stu
fly McInnis, Sam Crawford, Zimme
.man-and that is about all. 1t SHOW
Fthat it's TO easy thing to mainta
a 800. average from the day play
broke in