The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-24
BY RAuE. SCHEEFEr.S

United Press Stan CegfeSpendentl
 New York. Dec, 2s,-(uPl-T9e champion New York Yankees won team fielding honors in the Amer ican League in lssa but individual honors went to the Boston Red SoS and Cleveland Indians, official av- erages showed today.
 Only two percentage points sep arated the first three clubs in the team competition with the Yankees compiling a mark Of .976 in lSl games while committing only ls2 errors. Cleveland and Boston tied for second with .s7s. The Indians made l6s misplays to the Red Sox' l57 but handled 6lSS chances to BostonSs 6006.
 The Red Sox and Indians 6ona- mated the all-Star individual Se- tense lineup. however, Boston plac- ing six men among the top players while the Indians landed five. The Yankees. St. Louis and Chicago each had one.
 Double plays fell off last season from l2s2 in issl to l207 and for the second time in the junior cir cults history there were no triple plays. Tickling for the league dropped just one point to !s7l in %a
 Best first baseuan was rookie Les Fleming of Cleveland with per centage of !s9s for lS6 games, just one point above Tony Lupien's mark in 12l games for the Red Sox, Fleming participated in five doOble plays in a single game to equal the league standard. Rudy York of De- trOit broke the league mark for as- Sists for first basemcn with i46, Surpassing by three the record hung up in lsla by Chick Gandil with Washington.
 The Red Sox' Bobby Doerr paced the second sarkers with S7S for l4s games, a mark tEo points over that Of Don Gutteridge of the Browns for l45 games. Ray Mack of Clere- land took part in five couole plays to tse the single game mark for sec Ond sacker.i Joe Gordon Of the Yankees. the leagues most valuable player, trailed Mack with -966 to finish fifth
 Leading third baseman for the sccond straight year was Ken Kelt- ner of Cleveland He registered -9&S for lsi games. a drop Of 26 points from the lsal total in l&9 games. ww~wA.m..a e~msRA ne kzk z~n.E~ zoe www~a ner-up with lssl in g4l games.
 Lou B0udreaU. manager of the Indians, brought additional hcnors to his club hy leading the Short- steps with S6s in 14S games He set the pace in z9sr- also. with -0e6 in ls7 contests. phil RizxutO Of the Yankees came three points behind with a 'z2 ayerage of ls62 for IA games. Rlzzuto took part in the most douhae plays gith IA c0m- pared to l07 for Bon6reau-
 Waller Jsanseh Of the Broxns. Roy Weatheray of the Indians and Ted Williams of the Red S0x led the ozzsfiel1ers. Jn6nkch committed only three errors wlnkle handling ss7 chances tn l13 games but his per- soEmance was eqaalled by weather ly wlao took care of s3a chances. Williams made oEsly four muffs in 3s2 chances for sBS-
 No catcher worked in 100 games last season. The three leaders were Buddy Rnsnr of the Yankees with sDs for 56 games. Otto Dennkng 0f Cleveland wash ga for 7B and Johnny Peacock uf the Red SOx with .eee fer az Tn szl. fiv- catchers caught fn 100 e m0Ess games.
 Tweniy-txo perfect performances were inclnded among the pitchers who worked ln lo games or more. Ioe Dohsrn of the Bed Sox led the kroap win so El1ances followed by teammase Casriie wagner who ham, dled sk. Most effective. however. vas |Tz8 EaA azsn ek 1ossons wnn