The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-22

As far as fielding is concerned, both Kopf and Risberg can take care of the place in a satisfactory manner It IS impossible to guess what part the field ing feats or the fielding errors of either one of them will play in the champion ship games.
 To compare their batting, the most feasible method is the one employed irt the previous articles; that is, to select five pitchers from each league and fnc out what each man has done against these pitchers in the season now drawing to a close. For this purpose five pitchers are chosen from the National league who must closely correspond in style and skill to the pitchers Kid Gleason Is likely to use in the worlds series and these are Adams Barnes and Cadore to represent Cicotte Che having such varied assort- ment of deliv cries that no one pitcher can adequately represent him) Vaughn to rep resent Kerr and Cooper to represen. Williams.
 The five pitchers of the American league selected as representative of the pitch ing on the Cincinnati Reds are Bagby, to represent Ring; Leonard and Thormah- len to represent Sallee and Reuther; Sothoron, to represent Filler, and Shaw key, to represent Fisher and Luque.
 Let us now proceed to find out how Kopf has fared against the pitching of Barnes, Adams and Cadore this season. Against Adams he has been at bat 14 times, has made one run and one lone double He has made two hits against Barnes in + times at bat and against Galore he has made one run and four hits in 13 times at bat.
 This means he has been at bat g times against these three pitchers and has made two runs and seven hits. This gives him a batting average of .179, which does not encourage eone to believe his batting against Cicotte (who is repre- sented by these three pitchers) will be startling in the worlds series.
 Kopf's achievements against the two other key pitchers does not give much encouragement, either. He has been at bat 12 times this season against Cooper, has scored a run and made three hits. He has been at bat F times against Vaughn, with three hits and no runs This gives a, grand total for Kopf against the five key pitchers of 6S times at bat three runs and 13 hits-an average of .19t. Rsberg's record this season against the key pitchers would indicate that he can bat about 100 per cent better than Kopf in the worlds series. At any rate, he has been at bat nine times this season against Bagby and rine times against Shawkey getting three hits and no runs off each
  times, has scored a run and has made seven hits. If he does as well against Eller, the corresponding Cincinnati pitch CT, he will bat 476 in the games Eller pitches.
 The records show that Risberg cares little whether they pitch right or lett handed. He has not batted against Leon ard but he has been at hat 15 times against Thormahlen, getting five hits and one run batting average of .376 against the key pitchers. The recapituatior shows:
 Player-Team. AB. R. H. Pet. Kopf Cincinnati ........6s & 13 .1si Risberg, Chicago ........% IS .3F Before going further into the compari- son it would be well to note that the Reds and White Sox are well fortified iE reserve strength for this infield position McMullin> is ,an excellent third baseman, shortstop, second baseman and first base man. Jimmie Smith of the Cincinnati team is hustling youngster. He Is brilliant fielder and as fast as creased