The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-25

to participate in the series through the | failure of the Indians to win the flag, chances are that Brooklyn will be at a disadvantage in the central pasture. The White Sox. who threaten the lndians' claim to the bunting. have In Oscar Felsch another great outpost and one who possesses a fairly big margin over Fly Myers. the guardian of the middle section of the Dodger S, b. | urbs. Felsch excels lily in the me- chanics of outfielding about as widely as he does at bat and in this particular Felsch is about thirty points to the good, not knocking Myers, who is a better than average performer in all respects.
 FELSCH RUNNING TRIS A CLOSE RACE
 1 As for native ability, Felsch really does not have to concede a thing to l SPe aker, for Iris reputation has been exploited through his long service of twelve years and through his partici- I patton in numerous world series, Felsch however. has been doing every whit as good work as Speaker, making every allowance for Iris, for several lyears ago the Sox star set new IWorlds s record for chances accepted in a season and during the present ,am- l paign he has handled more work per game than the redoubtable Indian A
 big reason why Iris has achieved such renown is that he never has had a n anager, as he is of the impetuous Car ing type of player and, while Felsch is less courageous, he is of a nature to look to the manager for suggestions and orders
 AnaIyzing the figures above. one
 finds that Felsch has made eight
 more hits in ten less games than Myers and that his blows have
 been worth nearly thirty bases more. Myers's only claim to periority in batting is his ability
 to compile triples. of which he has
 twenty. He has made thirty-one
 sacrifices to sixteen for FeIsch. but
 r. the SOx player is essentially sIugGer md his place in the bat
 ting order gives him few oppor-
 tunities to lay lem down.
 Felsch, however, is the boy who
 knows how to grab the drives aimed in
 his general direction. On three occa-
 sions Oscar has clutched seven pu-outs
 and on as many more has he subdued
 six high ones. He has averaged 290 chances per game, compared with 2.69
 for Myers and 2.57 for Speaker. Felsch
 has specialized in sotpping base rum
 ners, having halted twenty-eight, or ten more than. Myers, although Myers
 wss in nine more games than Oscar. Felschs batting has been marked by steadiness. as he relies on a regular flow of swats without long interm!s- sions. Figures show his greatest
 slump to have lasted two successive games and only four periods of ie- ,pression of this kind have been suf- fered by him. Felsch's biggest single collection of safeties was four and in twelve games he obtained three drives
 MYERS LEADS IN 4 ~ NUMBER OF TRIPLES Myers Is about ninety points below
 Speaker in batting and thirty shy ot Felsch's mark. thus suffering a disad- l vantage in comparison with his pros. l pcctive rivals right off the reel He surpasses both in triples and sacrifices but must bow to them in the number of base runners thwarted by pegs from the outfield.
 High lights of Myers' 1920 Ia- bOrs include two games in which he had seven putouts. five that netted six flies and fifteen games in which he made three hits. To summarize the center field situa.
 ton, one must admit that Myers 8 a highly desirable outfielder; 300 hit. ter, and a rare player, but he can, rot hit or defend his position as ably al either Speaker or Felsch. Tn short, tho middle latch in the impending worlds
 series will be strictly American League vantage point, no matter whether it is Cleveland or Chicago tha, faces Brooklyn.
 tThe next article will compare righ, fielders.)