Evening journal., 1919-01-20
SOUTHWARK IS
A HARD HITTER
Eighty Per Cent. Of His
Blows Reach the
Garden
OUTFIELDER ALSO
TOUGH TO FAN

Just about so per cent. OF une mus
that few from the quarter stan Of
Billy Southworth. National League bat
ting champion for 1918. had impetus
enough behind them to reach the out
field, the Pirate being one Of those ath-
letes who meets the ball on the nose
and sends It far aneld. William H.,
third Cleveland discard to stand at the
top In the senior organization In swat
ting (the others were Jacob Ellsworth
Daubert and Earl Yingllng). showed 81
hits into suburban territory last year,
deposltlng i2 in left, % in center and
26 In right.
Bnrs infeld safeties numbered IL,
three being toward the box, four toward
third and two toward short. BY taking
the figures Of where Southworth made
his hits and where he made his outs.
one can get a pretty good idea OF
whether or not Southworth Is able TO
drive the ball TO all fields. The answer
Of the dope Is that he can.
About the only thing Southworth
cannot do. apparently, is to lay down
sacrifices and possibly the reason that
he did not make any infeld suicides In
1918 was that his boss, Hugo Bezdek,
didn't want him 10 try tap tactics and
preferred having him hit the ball out
Secretary (now president-secretary-
treasurerl Heydler's figures reveal only
one sacrifice for the man whom Lee
Fohl canned in 1915, and that was OF
the outfeld type. being made or Rube
Klarquard, briefly Of the United states
Navy. on July Is.
There were i63 times last year when
southworth made outs for his team, he
being a pretty hard man to fan and not
prone TO popping up fouls to be alb
sorbed by receivers. a famous catcher
having remarked to the writer that
most Of the windpaddlsts now are re-
ceivers, not catchers.
Southworth had a tx" put opposite
his name nine times during the year,
Atle Nehf whining him twice In the
notable 2i-inning, 2-to-0 game fought
at Braves Field on August /. and Thom-
as E. Lefty George repeating the stunt
two days later at the high-priced ball
yard in a game in which there was
nothing particularly notable. South
worth was in the thick OF a batting
slump, when he accumulated four
strike-outs inside OF three days, but
aid slump did not worry Bezdek at all,
Sir Hugo maintaining stoutly that VIII
liam II. was no morning glory per-
former and that he would soon get back
Into his old stride and show the way to
hitsmlths. He did.
The other pitchers who had the honor
Of tanning Southworth In 1913 were
Dana Fillingim, Jim Vaughn, Jack
Coombs, Larry Cheney and Ferdie
6chupp, two-thirds Of his strike-outs
coming from southpaws.
Southworth raised only eight fouls
that the opposition could absorb, the
catchers. (receivers, rather) getting 1--WE
Of these putouts and the third basemen
.hree. It still has to be told how
southworth was put out on the other
i46 times he didn't plant the ball out
Of the reach Of the lelders, so here
goes:
Southworth grounded out on 90 occa-
sions and flied out on SO The most busy
persons In the infleld when Southworth
wasn't hitting them safe were the sec
snd sackers, who benefited to the eX-
lent Of 80 assists. There were a few
days during the campaign when South
worth could not get the ball out Of the
lnfeld, George Tyler having Bll's nu-
neral on August i3. Then the Derry
N. H. southpaw made the slugging
pirate foul out once and grounder out
% the infleld four times.
Southworth hit into a dozen Sunny
Jim Tor force) plays during the season,
but not once did he rap into a duplex
killlng-a remarkable record.
These figures show Just where the
National League batting champion
bit to:
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