Evening journal., 1919-05-13
WILLIAMS ON A
HITTING SPREE
Phil Outfielder Makes IA
Safeties in 70
Times Up
APRIL BAD FOR
BASEBALL CANE

'frTf ltNAAiIu a. ENNulN number Ol
startling happenings. Fred Williams
or the pulls, previously not consider
ca a remarkably proficient performer
Win The willow, tore or a safetics in
% trips % the plate for an average of
.o5s being used exclusively against
rieht handlers. The graduate OF Noirc
Dame ,he was great sprintcr and
.hurdler at The Holy Cross Of the Vest
never was able TO maltrcat left handlers
and The early dope out OF Philadelphia
was That Jack Coombs wasn't going 10
let him hit against sJuihpaws this
year.
However, in Gotham last Sunday
week, when New Workers were having
their flrst taste OF legalized Sabbath
ball, Cy smoto against llube Benton
and nailed that p0ri-slder for two hits
In three times at bat.
Jupiter PluVius' average was some
roo points under Williams, but never
theless the storm King showed his old
time ability 10 deal falling blows on
the pocketbooks Of the hopeful mag
mates. out of 63 games scheduled 10
We're postponed. the Cub and Tiger
openings at home having 20 go over. j.
p halted four Saturday games and one
HHh'HA ANAihaAf tiAt iNh-udtt Af IAl
best against being J. Christopher Dunn.
Of Cleveland. The Indians could not
get into action on opening day IN De-
troit and were idle on their FIRST
sabbath date in ST. Louis
This was Jupiter Pluyius April rec
ord:
PostponementS in American.
At Detroit and New York. 3; at
Ia farr 1 -
PoSiponements In National
AZ Boston, 4; at Chicago and Cincln-
natl, ?; 40 Philadelphia, T.
A 20-nning game, such as the phils !
and Robins played on the last day Of |
the month was novelty for April, |
made possible ,by the daylight-saving /
i5'V. Previously no 20-rouud contest /
in the majors had been played prior 90 /
june 30. Chicago and Cincinnati cngag /
Ing In a scrap of this kind i'm 1892 and /
quitting with the count knotied. Z 10 g. /
Burle' gh Grimes and Joe Ocschger, |
by going the route. entered the cx-
tremely small and select circle OF big
leaguers who have pitched 20 or more
consecutive innings after having been
intrusted with the assignment on the
hili0ck. Jack COombs and Joe Har-
A.
Babe Adams. Artie Nehf, George Tyler
and Mule Watson. 2i: and Rube Nad-
dell. Cy Young. Tony Mullanc, Ad
Gumbert. Ed Beulbach and Frank |
Sparks. 20, previously.
Grimes, one OF The two pitching he
r0es OF "Wednesday. April 80, was a I
batting hero on "Wednesday. APRIL % /
for them IN The ninth. with the bases /
packed. the big loser Of 1911 and the /
large winner of 1918 unlcashed a dOu- /
Die or Pat Ragan, OF the Braves, that
empled them
Grimes noble Naiiop was not the /
only cleanup drive of lhe month. for
"a the American. on April 26 Chic Can
an. of The Western SOX. scored three
men with O double CLEANED on Dave Da-
venp0rt OF the Browns. and on April .
2S Oscar VIII, OF the Eastern SoX. tal-
lied inree PLAYERS with q triple pro- Z
cured OF Walter johnson OF the Ma !
fionais.
Scott Perry. Of ilc AS. when De was i
batting. didn't do anything like Grimes, 3
Gandil and Wit. lie made 30 appear a
auces so the plate during The month
md famed eight times. striking ont on
lhrcc occasions in a i3-inning game
with Washington. Johnson pitching =
and on five occasions in i2-inning O
'racas with New York, quinn and y
pitching b
National Lcaguers, who iammed three C
s'rikc0uis into one game in the open n
Ing months were Lewis Malone. Of the n
Superbas, against Ragan and Filllng'm o
OF the Braves. on Patriots Day: Dana ii
of the Braves, against Crimes O
n# MI
Casey Siengsl Of the Pirates. against
nueihcr. Of The Reds. on April -.
Sicngc Is q lefi-handed hitter and o
Ruclher is loft handed pitcher and y
hero the dope that southpaw slahmcn "
bother souihpaw sluggcrs ran true to :
form. 70 skdded 6ff The track IN Pitts
hureh last Saturday. when tho color-
mi Corsair nickod Jim Vaughn. Of the
Cubs, FOR four hits. a triple included.
And il didn't run true TO form In
The fourth innng In ST. Louis on April
%. Then Manager Jimmy Burke OF the
Browns switched from highlander
20 a lefthander with Eddie Collins
coming up and Eddie promptly hit for
lac circuit against the newcomer. who 4
was Lefty Leineld
The theory that the farm Is good
place TO train got an awful Jolt from
The showing made by Eddie Roush, Of
ihe Reds, who got just one base knock
in q times at bat
Nevertheless and notwithstanding.
The Pat Morans. who now are called
the Pat More-runs, kicked in with six
Straight wins.
Larry kopf and Morris Rath, 0f theI
beds. made Clifton Earl Hcalhcote, of
The Cards, pull a bone on April %. in
The third inning, by foxing him into
the belief that a savage clout from
iiornsby's bat was going 10 DE raked In
by housh. The yOungster from Penn
State dashed madly as Charles Lin
coin Ilerboz say, back over the scoring
route and passed Rogers OF Runnels
County, Texas, between second and
third.
George Burns OF the Giants, in the
opening game in Philadelphia, logged
down to third. only 10 ind Jess Barnes
there, so Heathcote's blunder was not
The pioneer bone OF the year.
Just as surprising welcome as Ed
lie Collins gave Lefty Leifleld when he
'elieyed Tom Rogers in the fourth in
ling on April 90 awaited Urban Faber
when he took Frank Shellenback's
'lace on the rubber in the third three
lays later. Sisler, Demmtt and VIII
Jams. or the Browns, Immediately 1
ulled triple steal On the newcomer.
In the National the first clean theft |
( the plate was perpetrated by Fred |