Evening star., 1924-08-12

But to keep their heads up the
Bucks must find some way to turn
the tables on the pesky Browns and
Tribe or give the Tigers and the
White Sox good thumpings
The Tigers, so far this season not
$" good I the road. may have their
troubles during the trip, but the
Yankees are notoriouSly good on their
native heath and especially fine front
runners. The present leading margin
of the Cohbmen is nothing to daunt
the Yanks. and the latter are quite
apt to step along around 900 in the
big stadium. That certainly would
put the buck up to the Bucks. 1t
would have to be 1913 or better at
home.
And playing at .793 clip against
the West here means that the Bucks
have got to improve decidedly upon
the form they displayed against the
Western contingent in its bailiwick
All Harris and his athletes did in that
part Of the circuit during the tour
that ended yesterday was to take
of Il games.
That was moving at a .412 rate. the
sloweSt gait a I which the Bucks have
moved in any protra cted series this
season. All told, the club lost % per-
centage points on the tour-a for
midable amount to drop at this stage
of the campaign.
Batting slump Is Costly.
There is but one way to account for
the excessive loSs-a general slump
in batting. All the Bucks could do
with their war clubs on the tour was
to WALTON the opposing pitchers for
average of .24i. and that mark
would not have been reached but for
a sudden clearing of batting eyes
against some rather mediocre White
Sox hurling during the latter part of
the journey.
At Cleveland Sherrod Smith, George
Chle, Stanley Coveleskie and Joe
Shaute held the Bucks to batting
mark of .190 in four games-pitifully
small. In Detroit, where three of
four games were won, the club scared
to .254, batting at the expense mainly
of Earl Whitehll and Ed Wells,
southpaws.
In St. Louis, however, the Bucks
fell back to 223 rate and dropped
five games in a row as result.
Dixie Davis, who apparently makes
Washington his pet victim, scored
two wins over the Bucks, and Urban
Shocker found them particularly easy.
Then came the generous Hollis
Thurston in the White Sox series to
give the Harrismen 20 swats in one
game ana tnereDy neip SVEN lHelT
Windy City batting figures to .307.
Only nine of twenty-five players
used on the western trip hit better
than the club average, and but four
of them could be accounted regulars
in the lineup.
They were Sam Rice with 1852, Joe
Judge with .313. Bucky Harris with
.29S and Goose Goslin with .246. Cos
Inns terrible failure at bat probably
hurt the club more than anything
else, for he is it's only real slugger.
and without his clouting the Bucks
are as bad off as the Yankees very
likely would be without their great
Babe Ruth.
Generally the pitching and fielding
of the Bucks were good on the trip.
At the outside there were but three
poorly hurled games and errors were
remarkably few. Had the club been
able to hit decently it probably would
have been at the top or closer than
it now is to that position on its re-
turn yesterday.
These Figures Tell Story.
The following statistics tell the
story of the failure Of the second
western invasion of the year. 1ndi-
vidual figures are given for each Sc
ries and the trip. The real cause OF
the flop is here: