The Washington times., 1937-08-23
ONLY 486 RUNS
REGISTERED IN
ITO CONTESTS
Six Yank Batters
Score 1856
BY FRANK BUCK o,NE1L

Four men in the ericaA
League have driven In 100 runs or
more this season, taking the fig.
ureS correct to last Friday to estab.
hsh uniformity in a basis Of COM
pariSon.
Hank Greenberg, of the Tigers,
leads the league in this necessary
endeavor, and the other three are
New York Yankees. Giuseppe d.
Maggie, Lou Gehrig and Bill
Dickey, have produced 343 runs
for the champions.
These figures are interesting for
q number Of reasons. One Of the
reasons is that the entire Washing.
ton club, according to figures that
include the last game Of the Griffs,
has batted in 486 runs in 10
games.
Six Yankees have batted in 400
runs, or 10 more than the entire
washington team. DiMaggio has
accounted for 119 tallieS with his
1872 average; Gehrig has batted in
lit with 1859; Dickey totalled lot
with .318.
LAZZERI HAS 81
Dropping into the lower
brackets for q moment you find
Tony Lazzeri with 81 runs on an
average Of .237, the worst year
Of his career for the old "Wallop.
ing Wop." Selkirk, injured some
time ago, produced Sc runs In 50
games with a percentage Of .345
and Tom Heinrich batted in 20
runs in Sc games with a percent
age Of 1924.
The leading run producer for
Washington as of the last semi.
official averages for the entire
league, was Johnny Stone, the
most moderated ball player in
captivity. Stone had produced
SO runs with an average of $50.
Next to Stone ranked AL Sim
mons with Sc runs driven in on Q
.272 average. Both in percentage
and production of tallieS, Sim
mons is below his usual standard.
Cecil Travis, battling it out for
the lead Of the American League
in batting, produced 48 runs in 81
games with his average Of 1853.
Lewis, Kuhel and Myer round
out the leading sextet Of the
Griffs with 81, 50 and AZ runs
batted in respectively.
YORK STARTLES
Perhaps the most remarkable
record in run production in the
American League is being made
by Rudy York, the Indian boy
who is catching for the Detroit
Tigers. Not including the two
home runs York hit yesterday to
enable the Tigers to win a double
header from the st. Louis Browns,
York produced SO runs on So hits
with a batting average Of ,.270.
It will be recalled by students
of baseball that York cracked
three home runs in three days
here in Washington during the
last visit of the Bang-alls to the
Capital. All fences look alike to
the Cherokee boy whose power
rivals that Of Ruth or any other
player in the history Of baseball.
York, to keep all comparisons uni
form, had made 20 home runs
through Fridays records.
The testimony Of the records
cannot be misunderstood. It pro-
claims the need Of climax hitter
in the lineup Of the Griffs. It
is readily admitted that the Wash
ington playing field is one OF
magnificent distances, but it con-
tended that well hit baseballs
span the distance between plate
and fence in picturesque arc. The
Washington Club has hit 80 home
runs all season, or three fewer
than DiMaggio hit, not including
the failing Fascist's'' drive yes
} ter6ay against the Athletics.
It cannot be said that DiMaggIo
is favored by the structural design
of Yankee Stadium. That citadel
Of sport was built to order for a
left handed hitter. A right
handler is handicapped by the in
creasing distance to. the fence
with each degree of an angle from
the home plate. It is just a case
of power with DiMaggio, and il
is matter Of lack Of power with