The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-25
CUTSHAW SETS
FIELDING MARK
OF IA CHANCES
Other InfieIders Showing Remark
able Playing Form So Early
i'm Spring.
BY JOHN B. FOSTER
Copyright, 1922, by The Argus0

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New York, April %. - Inhelders
are as busy as boys elbowing bum
blebees out of the way when a nest
| is overturned in the harvest field.
| The veteran Cutshaw, who is play
! ing second base for Detroit this
year and who played second for
Pittsburgh last season and played
: it astonishingly well, has turned in
high count for the spring by &C
cepting IA chances in nine-inning
| game.
Bohne of Cincinnati another
! player who had one of the higher
marks in taking chances last year,
has accepted II in one game to
date and 10 in another. That is
Unfolding with butterfly net.
Bohne looks good in covering
ground.
Johnston of Brooklyn turned over
to second base from third, celebra-
ted the change by almost immedi-
ately accepting II chances, and
oddly enough the transplanted
shortstops, Scott and Peckinpaugh.
each has accepted II. With four
infelders going to II and one to
IA in a season that is barely two
weeks old, baseball cannot com
plain that the spectacular is lack
ing.
Six players have accepted 10
chances each, including Bohne al
ready cited. The other five are
Rawlings, Wambsganss, Hollocher
and the veteran Fletcher, who has
done so much to bolster the Phil
lies, and Pinelli, the Cincinnati
third baseman The latter, to the
minds of most, has done about the
best of all. because a third base
man gets 10 chances about as often
as a tired citizen going home picks
up a diamond bracelet.
Many Accept Nine.
McManus, Parkinson and Ban
croft each has accepted nine
chances twice, and there are near
ly half a score who have done it
once. The chaps who have picked
up eight chances outnumber those
who did the same thing at the same
time last year, and one of them
who has been fielding like a COM
pany responding to fire alarm is
Harris of Washington, who has
picked up eight chances three
times.
Replacing Ruth!
Who is this that is taking the
place of Babe Ruth? None other
than Kenneth Williams of the 81.
Louis Americans, who made his
fsL-
days by hitting for four bases Mon 5
day, thus giving him a record as
good as the exiled Babe. Ruth !
made his record last year on June
II, 13 and IA 1t is a better record
than the National league can boast
OF, as Williams way back in 1884
could only hit four home runs in
three successive games. Williams
feat is by far the best Individual
performance that has taken place :
in baseball this year, and if it is a
forerunner of what is to come rec
ords are in for a beating. !
Pipp a Hero. !
Pipp of the Yankees is an 11th-
inning hero. With a tie standing
with the Athletes he larruped the
ball for a home run and won the a..
game as well as keeping the Yam I,
KEGS ahead of Cleveland for first !
place, because the latter team f. |
nally turned on Chicago and won. /
By defeating Boston the Washing
tons at last emerged from the gloom
and that victory also defined sharp
ly the first and second divisions In
the American league race, as Phila- !;
delphia, Boston. Detroit and Wash
ington now make up the second |
column with Washington in the !
very last place by a half game.
The first division OF the National /
league is racing away from the
second division. so that both major
IAaanAs ara alike in that respect.