Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-12-29
ATHLETICS DOWN IN
FIELDING AVERAGE
Held Secure to Eighth Place IN
American League, With
259 Errors

Again fielding averages ar vlndIcatcd
nv the findings Of the American League
error statistics. Just issued. Tho Ath-
lct,cs are in eighth place, bcinG charged
with go errors Tor tho}r season striving,
ahlch i Just il6 more than wrrc madC by
tha Boston Red Sox, leaders IN thus re-
spctt. The As average was 956 and
Bnstou folded for 4 pcrccpt3Ec q W.,
f that means anything 10 ANYBODY II
sI.-ujflcs that the Ecd SoN handed per
frctly o3, out Of every ~ fielding chances
whllr The As handled only q llilc bit
more than % out e. every lo with thc
rest III the league 10 between. tn White
~ox. champions. ranklng srcond
ahe As were tied lor last III double
nlavs. with Qi. and madc mono of the
six triple plays tho season staged Iha
" hito Sox made I'D double Killings, an1
fTe Red cox lankq aud Indians all
made more than 100 Tho ~t Louis
Browns ed tho league in triple plays, with
two. Boston, Chicago, Cleveland and
Detroit each having one. Boston was
first n general fielding, but had tho
blot .of making more passed balls than
anv other club. getting ~. lhe Iocai
catchcrs were pretty good n thus rcSpoct.
only Chicago and Cleveland makinE lcS~
The Yanks made The most putoutS.
.S63. and the Red SoN tho least. i66A,
The Yanks likewise had the noSt assists,
.q52. snd IN this respect the Atackmen
ranked second with 900
Chick Gandl is the ranking first base
man. having made only three errors IN
lis games Griffin, for II games, II
sixth. with two rrrnTS- BURNS Is eighth
and Burns eleventh ont ot lS listed
Sislcr made l20 assists, nc other tlrSt-
sAckcr having more than "a lehman,
II Detroit. made 81 errors and Is night
fully rated last Pipp otsAcw fork, ied
III nutouts with 4SS
(,cdcnn. of the Browns, tons tic regular
second bascuen. having made l6 crr0rs
III his ms games OF the iof:r used there
Nv Mack shannon has the highest aver
ace. ranking Glth among keystone guar
diaas who PLAYED more than 100 games
TGdl., Collins who was second to Iiedeon,
had the most puiouts, 3t7 aud IloTlh
Pratt, al the YaukS he most assists. 49l
Willie Wa1hSganSs lcd m errors with 5u
Wit vas the bcst thtri DasoTnan MAX
ing lis errors IN 133 games Thonlss, the
oaiy loc4l player rated, Is put Clchth out
of IL listed Frank Baker had the most
pl!touts l76. Larry Gardner the most
asslsts. 2ql, and also tie most error.
IS. topning Thomas by one.
Everett Scott, of the S>x. committed
II errors IN 13o games, and rightly 'rncs
She shortstoFs. GasiOw.y y, though play
iac 0alv II games, ranks second n tne
averages. Uith hls three errors Lone
Bash. Tlgcre, had the most put outs. -s41
ana Ralph PccknpauEh had the bulge =
assists with 43i ITcrhcr, Browns. lt-d
the league IN errors, with 45, TINS beAag
the figure that topped players @ posl-
tons whatever Dugan had good
chance until Galloway took his Job. ler
.Jo. had made - IT the shortstop posi-
tia4 before rcSJEusHC
Babe Ruth. tesides his sluggmg, made
onlv two errors IL hls Ill games, catch-
Ing 20 fi.e ard throwing out 25 base
runners. This beats anything IN tie out
ted Inc. though Nlc! ar.d, who out
h.ldcd Ii r games for IN ianils, didn't
drop ans Of the II tiies battsd to hiin
1ris ~peaser, Cleveland manager. gath
-, s III tho most tl-s, 80. No other
PLAYER reached the 500 marks
In throwing, however, Spoke was sur
passed by Hap Feisch, Of the Nhlte Sox,
who tossed out y basermners. Speaker
killed only - and Is topped not only
av Hap and Babe huC iso 10y Memo
Leibold Of the white $ who also
threw our 26 asulTantS Lclb0ld feats
are somewhat marr,d by fba fart that he
uas tled with IUly Walker for ligh-
error with I9 sips
Truck Hannah Tanls, with SIX errors.
III 70 games. has the bcst catching aver
az. Schalk, handling the White Sos
pitchers, had the inoss putouts, but =
Perkins had the honor Of throwing out
tie most b;lserunniug stars, mailing l34.
Schalk nailed 1870. and Wally Schaug
peggcd down one more than bis Chicago
rival
There we're numerous errorless pitch-
erS. btu SINCE lots 81 pitchers permit the
drives ID 20 past them a. best they may
these zeroes don't count for nuci
Shawkey. OF the Yanks, covered first foF
p putouts, leading the league il thA.
department.. George Dausz. Detroit, hid
Tie most assists, l0l. and anybody who
has ever seen Allan Sothoron, Of 81.
Louis, field bunt5. knows that nobody u
tile league could touch him il the en9r
column He held himself down II u
tils wear