The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-24
COLE, MURPHY
AND BENSON IN
SELECT CIRCLE
Trio of Islanders Manage to Finish
Above 800. as Shown. by
Final Averages.

OF Is Three-Eye league players
finishing the season in the 300
class, three are Islanders, namely
| Bill Cole, Frank Murphy and Elmer
Benson. Excluding Thompson and
kneisch, who appeared in a Limited
number of games. Lee Gooch Is the
only Moline player within the Sc
lect circle With 1872, he stanQs
second only to Anderson OF ROCK,
ford, who wound up with $50 and
the logical leadership of the league
During IS games in which Thomp-
son appeared for Moline, he snow
ed wonderful talent with the stick,
collecting % hits out of II times at
bat for an average of 1897.
A squirt in the last few games OF
the season enabled Bill Cole to
add nine points to last weeks av-
erages and finish with .317, the best
among the Islanders. Frank Muir
ply managed to cling to .315, which
he had established the week prevl-
Gus. Elmer Benson hit the sklds
rapidly in the last few weeks OF
play, but concluded with .301.
Shollenberger of Moline fell off
in the final games and checked IN
with .297, four points less than last
week. Manager Earle Mack OF Mo-
line with .297 added one point. Nc
Cue of Moline finished with -27S;
Carey, .271; Barrett, .269; Smith,
.266, and DEUEL., .224.
Carleton Lord, with 275, is the
Islander nearest to Benson. In the
last two weeks of play Lord devel-
f
ing the apple, and the result was
an increase of more than 30 points.
Aftermath finished with .272; Tate,
.270; Bill Johnson, .26S; Connolly,
PAS, and Newell .225.
While Moline proved itself com
pact hitting organization by topping
the league for several weeks and
finishing out in front in this re-
spect with a mark of .2S4, the rea-
son for the pennant winner is clear
" shown in the records of the
pitchers. Every one Of Mack S
hurlers finished with a percentage
above 800 with the exception of
Kneisch, whose nine won and ten
lost entitled him TO a mark of .474.
Heimach stood second to Luke Nell
son of Peoria in point of percent
age, but turned in three more vic
tories than the Tractor star. Hell
mach won 81 and lost eight for .724,
against Nelson's IS won and six
lost for $50 Sullivan won Is and
lost nine, McWhorter 10 and II,
and Matthews nine and seven.
Jack Fitzpatrick, Islander star,
proved he possessed the stuff for
this league by turning in six vic
tories out of seven starts, and that
with a tail-end organization. In
matter of percentage he tops all
hurIers in at the finish with .807.
Frank Smith won eight and lost
seven, Ross IL and Is, Ambrose u
and II, Herb Miller 10 and II.
Steals 53 Bases.
Murphy's SO stolen bases stands
as the best record in this angle OF
the game. Campbell of Terre Haute,
his nearest competitor, stole IL.
Gooch was the leading home run
hitter with II. Anderson of Rock
ford and Platte of Peoria got IS
each. The Rockford star led in to-
tai bases with 279 against 276 for
Gooch and 240 for Platte. Ander-
son got the greatest number OF hits,
ITO, with Murphy second with 1863.
Gooch collected 16S. Crouch scored
the greatest number of runs, 100.
Strong of Rockford registered 81
times. and Anderson and Murphy
turned in 95 each.