The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-03
HOME RUN IS
COMMON FOR
PHILLY CLUBS
Two Quaker Town Aggregations
Have 81 Circuit Clouts IN Per.
iOd of Six Weeks.
By JOHN B. FOSTER

iCOpyTlSHI, 1879, ny Inc al SuS-J
New York, June 3.-The lubber's
yarn that Philadelphia is slow has
been exploded. It's the fastest lit
tie old vile in either league when
it comes to the production of home
runs. It's a standing problem in
Philadelphia whether a home run
isn't born about as fast as one of
Barnum's one a minute.
To June l on the grounds of the
Athletics there had been 81 home
runs, one for each variety. The
Phillies who had not played at
home nearly as often as the las"
had 80 home runs on their common.
Total of 81 home runs for the land
of the Quaker and the season only
six weeks old, not out of it's swad-
ding clothes.
1t is pretty sure that in all base
ball history, even back when
granddad batted EN-, there has
been no such reco-I of home runs
for one corporation in about six
weeks. Part of the time, too, there
were no games because of rain. If
the home run mania continues ev
cry girl in Philadelphia will BE-
looking for one for a souvenir. At
the rate they are being manufac-
tured on the Delaware about 1000
home runs would be batted for 10
clubs if each of the Is could do
as well as the Philadelphia jobbers.
Imagine 1000 home runs in one
year in baseball Domus Souri,
Gus, more or less Latin for that
particular swat, soon will begin o
lose so much of its rarity that they
will be going to games in Philadel-
phia to see if one can be played
without a home run.
Duffy Celebrates.
The other day Hugh Duffy, man
ager of the Boston Sox. had an an
He celebrated the re-
currence of the date on which he
started to play baseball by trying
to fill his players with pep" He
has done a lot of that in his time !
but a lot of folks when he was an
overlooked the fact |
that he had the highest batting
average of any player in baseball |
history. 1t was .43S and some |
achievement by splendid batter |
and high class ball player.
@ Giants Tumble.
The Giants are almost at the !
parting of the ways. Neither old !
pitchers nor young pitchers have /
been able TO hold them to the pen
nant highway. Their slip in posi-
ton has not been far because they
are still in first place but their
in hoc
From an altitude of over
700 they are. down to a level of
nearly .600-only five points away
from it. There is realism in that
tumble. 1t is not Imagination nor
fiction
1t is better to- have the slump p
now than in September, the fans
think. Suppose there is another in
September, and what sense is there
n slumping any time if team
wishes to win a pennant. The fact
s the team is not meeting expecta
ions. 1t flashed but it is not sta
Die.
Pulling the Giants back to the
ield has punched the National
eague teams so that anything is
probable unless the Giants on their
OWN beloved Polo Grounds can run
away again.
The Bostons picked up half a
game on the Yankees Friday be-
,ause it rained and the Yankees
lidn't play. There is another race
n which extremes are not separat-
ID as they were. The depressed
Extreme is now Boston. The Red
'ox have gravitated firmly to the
,ellar. Imagine a Boston AmeTi-
an league club in last place and
Boston National league club almost
n last place-only a game away
rom it. 1t is years since that has
if ever it did before.
here may be no surprises among .
he leaders of the major leagues for
he nom ent but there surely are ia !
he identity of the clubs that are :
he tailenders
The way the clubs punched three {:
7eeks more may see acrobatic flip
ops all over the circuits of both.