Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-10
FIRST BAsEMEN PLAYING
BIG ROLES THIS SEASON
Doubtful If Any Era OF Game Ever
Saw So Many Fast First
Sackcrs in Sport.
sIsLER THE BRIGHT STAR
IounEster Is Ideal Player in Every
Respect and Lacks Nothing To De-
serve Ranking as Greatest of This
or ANY Other Period.
ny JAMES J. tounI,Tr.

NEW YORK, Sept. ".-This IS ms
mighty roles in the baseball conflict
The game always has known many
splendid initial sackers. bat i; is doubt
fui If any era possessed SO many stars
as are operating in nhis day.
George sslcr. Hal chase. John Nc
1nnis. Jake Dauhcrt. Ed Konetchy
Chick Gandii. Walter ripp Walter
few OF the first base guardians who
are making history this year.
Never have first hascmen. rs big
league group. hit at more terrific
are clout!ns beyond 500 and Of the
sixteen in the two big shows. tw'lv"
are ha n'Sing the ball for better than
.2I5 average. The first haSnE clan
as whole, is hitting at a rate well
beyond the batting average Of either
league.
There's a younSster VINO is an idea,
bal! player IN every sense OF the word;
Il youth who ranks totay a. almost
peerless at tr-st position; Sisler lacks
greatest first aascman OF this time and
perhaps q: any era.
St-icr Greatest in Game.
Fred Tenaey vas e-ea; and so was
Adrian Arson Frank Chance VAS
stars Of stars and those We're in other
days many na-vs@s At the first sta
ton. But SISTER has demonstrated
ability TO Perform in any one depart
and ne combines more worth aS a
ball player than any h-s; sacker in
the history o: the game.
Sister Is hitting close - the cTcat
mark that Arson made Perhaps Cap"
had little bulge on him in the swat
ting line. But Sisler moro than of
the bases and by his br!.l!an; playing
at first base. TcnHey and Chase.
miracle men as far as receiving was
concerned, may haye had q little on
ell " Gold f-r i,.-- Sfs'1 g Inc.
both as batsman and as a base run
rer.
Dnubcrt Has Brnccd ur.
It is something of tossuD rs 70
which first hasNman ranks next to
haps can be made from among Mcin-
mis-, Chase and Daubcrt. Each is Il
star. Daubcrt has taken a new lease
is his wonderful playing tina, has
stcadcd the entire Red inicli and
kept the club at the TOP through weeks
and months of tcrritlc battling
Chase is nearly thirty seven now. a
yN,rran Of veterans; Put Chase per
f":med comeback" this year tina
struck his batting stride some WEEK!
ago and is banging with the best
hitters in the big league. There seem!
TO he no slowing of his legs mis- hrau
is fielding in the same superb faShio,
that made him Peerless fa" a dozel
years ago.
McInnis Hitting Below Par.
McInnis is hitting far below his nor
NAL mark but, just the same. the Re,
Sox player is. all things considered
still st-basinG marvel Tho Re,
SoN arc fac down in tho race jus
now. but without tho ih"lp or MeInni.
II is certainty that they would hay,
been still farther in the ruck.
Chick" GaAdirs play for tho Whit.
SoX this year has been nothing shor
OF wonderful Gandi ever has bee,
superb as {; fielder. This year he i.
as brilliant as ever shoueh he rank.
as veteran. And in the batting lin,
he is well above any fopncr mark
lie has been one o: the strongest link.
IN the chain that is hauling the son
into a world series
Konetchy's play for the Dodgers ant
Holke's for tie Braves nave hcIpet
materially in keeping those clubs out
First. basemcn always hive PLAYED
rather conSpicudrs part in pennanr
battles but never in any season hav,
they been Of such great help 10 pen.
nant battling teams--or 10 those tina,
nave been lighting 10 land well up in
hrst division. t'OpVrigrt 1919