Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-01


fourth notch.
Dangerous Quartet
That quartet is good on paper and
better in the field. Any one of them
is likely to break up a nice ball game
long before its time. and every one of
them has done It repeatedly this season.
Sherwood Magee is the only one of the
four who is not hitting above 800, and
the former Philips extra-base drives and
his habit of hitting with men on the bags
make him as valuable on the offense as
any one of the others. Lee Magee is
leading Matty's crew with slamming
average of .322; Heine Groh is hot on
I.eo's trail with .314: Roush is hitting
.30l and Sherry is tapping EN- out at
.2e1 rate
Rube Bressler, who has been doing
some good hurting for the Reds, has
also been outfielding now and then for
Matty. His combined efforts with the
stick while working in this dual capacity
have netted him A figure of .273. Ivy
Wingo is hitting .2s7 and Chase ,259.
Just how we'll the Reds are hitting is
shown in their club average. which is
.26s, ten points below the Giants. who
are leading with the willow as we'll as
in the race for the flag.
In the field the Reds are doing as
We'll as any other club in the league
When Chase Is at first base, Matty has
a corking infield, for Heine Groh is gen.
orally considered the best fielding third
sacker in the major leagues
Add to their good fielding a pitching
staff composed of Toney, Schneider. Re-
gan, Bressler, Conley, Smith and Ellcr
and you have a baseball result tina,
looms right up with the best in the Ma
tional League.
Ross Young Giant Star
II any one person was responsible
for the Giants coping the rubber game
of the series with our Phils yesterday
that one individual was Ross Young. of
San Antonio, Tex. 1t was a hot single
or the bat of the Texan terror in the
fifth inning that sent over the only New
York tsllies of the engagement.
Ross rap gave the Giants the series
by 81 count, the same figures that
represented the score of the anal game
The Phils won the first battle of the
series on Wednesday and lost on
Memorial Day and yesterday
The more we see of Young the more
is one sweet ball player. He is a stocky
youth and he gets his weight behind his
wallops. He Is a flash on his feet and
covers as much territory as the German
long-range gun. His one-hand circus
catch of Cravath's fly was one of the
many bright spots of his playing yes
terday.
Cravath in Hard Luck
The mention of Cravath's name re-
minds us that Clifford c. is hitting in
extremely bad luck. One of his punches
yesterday would have earned him fifty
iron men and double at least had not
Bashful Benny Kauff been in The way
Said B, B. rushed back to deep right
center and picked Gavvy's drive off the
Bull Durham sign
But Gavvy's misfortune did not stoI
| with that. In the ninth when a long hi
| would have won the game, he banged
one that looked good for triple, bu
| II went foul by less than a foot. Hi.
next effort was a long fly which Georg,
Burns smothered with his back almos
at the bleacher wall. If the blow hat
mite more power to 1t II would hav,
carried the ball to the stands for {
| homer.
John j. McGraw is having a heap o
misfortune with second basemen, II,
had Larry Doyle at the beginning o
the season. but Larry was stricken will
se.as sort of stomach trouble and hal
bota aiiing for several weeks. He oh
ltAtned Bert Niehon from the C1rdp.p pn'
lxS with Bert out ysth broken ~
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