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Copyright. 1913, International News
Service.
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Figures Won't Lie, but They Will Lead You a Merry Dance in Baseball
EVER CALCULATE HOW THEY DO WHEN THEY DON’T ?
Ly 0. B. Keeler.
I T has been a Ion* time since some
body first came forward with that
cheerful maxim to the effect that
figures do not lie.
Probably it was true, then.
But It is equally probable that
baseball wasn’t invented, or, at any
rate, played extensively at that time.
Which Isn’t by way of saying fig
ures prevaricate, even now, and even
connected with baseball
But they do some funny things,
when applied to baseball. And if the
gent who got up that aforesaid
maxim ever had conned baseball sta
tistics to any extent, he would very
likely ha\e hooked a little explana
tory note onto his ^ train of thought,
to wit:
“Figures won’t lie, but baseball
figures will argue you out of it.”
• • •
O NE game of solitaire that beats
Canfield is to take a set of base
ball statistics and try to figure out
from it why this team won the pen
nant, or why that team didn’t, and
bo on.
Dick Jemlson, w’ho easily ranks A-l
among baseball statisticians in the
South, has compiled a page of dope
of the recently closed Southern
League race. And that page might be
termed Justly a romance in figures.
It is intensely interesting—and if
you aren’t careful, you will be holding
your head with both hands and run
ning around in diminishing circles,
Irving to account for some of the
things you KNOW happened in the
late struggle.
AND
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>NCING at the team batting av-
J rag'-s it is noted that Atlanta
21 points ahead of the nearest
efftor. Mobile, in the matter of
Also Atlanta scored 71 more
'han Mobile.
is re^a’l^d that Atlanta fln-
^cqpt half-game to the front
v_} ; ’l!s—and f he question imme-
r»rppen f « itself, “Why?”
T » 7 qr 4 't r sonable answer that
’pgests itself U hat the Craek-
H^lding must have been ■fcome-
?: ng frightful, to permit such a close
flnlch with so great an advantage
in hitting and run getting.
But the tabi-» show? the Gulls field
ing only three poin f s better than the
Criokorn—a t’m margin that mtehi
easily be explained by the Atlanta
club going after mor* chance* *?nd
harder ones, as the table also indl
cates.
No help there- the Crackers ought
to have romped home under wraps.
* * •
A ND to make things worse. Bill
Smith’s men led in that impor
tant art, sacrificing, and hammered
the ball out for the greatest number
of extra bases.
Mobile did show a reason for being
well up, in the number of stolen
bas”« opp’ne Atlanta, 270 to is
p t ft would have been a giddy mor
ry-go-round of '•> '• —.inrir.. ir • X.
to make up the . or • kilned n
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as ’ wn on the Crackers side oi th*
ledger.
you can work up a similar row
about the relative position of
every team in the league, or In any
league.
You recall the marvelous perform
ance of the White Sox in 1906—the
“Hitless Wonders,” who won a pen
nant handily while hatting at the cy
clonic clip of less than .230, at the
very foot of the league list in team
hitting?
And then they beat the Cubs—and
their batting in that fateful series, if
we recall it correctly, was about .191.
What do you think about that?
• • •
A BOUT the only club in the South
ern League that traveled accord
ing to the figures was New Orleans.
The luckless Pels batted in last
place, and fielded In last place—and
finished in last place.
But those same Pels gave the
Crackers a mighty boost in time of
need, and there’s no call to rub any
thing into them, either figuratively
or otherwise.
May Place J. Coombs
In a Plaster Cast
THAT dope sheet of Dick Jemison’s
A is an interesting thing—and it
does inspire one with a huge respect
for the quaint and almost lawless
workings of presumably' cold and un
sympathetic figures, when applied to
the National Game.
Figures won’t lie, maybe—but they
will talk you out of It, when it comes
to baseball.
• • •
THE report persists that “Circus
A Solly'” Hofmen, who finished the
season with Nashville, will go to the
New’ York Yanks next season.
In 57 games, Artie batted for an
average of .285, which is easily his
regular speed—and, as is not gen
erally' known, most hitters of real
worth will bat as well or better in
the big show’ as they do in Class A
company.
At any rate, it was not Solly’s hit
ting but his legs that got him in
wrong with Fred Clarke at Pitts
burg. It is said the ex-Cub’s under
pinning now r has recovered its wonted
snap, and that he is fit for regular
gardening.
And “Circus Solly” doe9 want to
play for Frank Chance and the New
York Yanks. In the old days, when
Chance was the “Peerless Leader”
of the Cubs, Solly was one of the
P. L.’s most trusted players and
warmest friends, and the friendship
has outlived the disconnection of both
with the once-famous Cub machine.
• * *
O UR personal thanks to Mr. Jemi-
son for his kind w’ords and par
ticularly for his sportsmanlike ex
pression of the spirit existing among
Atlanta baseball fans and Atlanta
baseball writers. It is our firm be
lief that, no matter which of them
Is doing the official scoring, visiting
players and visiting clubs will always
get a square deal in this town, OR
A LITTLE EDGE, if the situation is
tight.
Atlanta doesn’t want, AND
DOESN’T NEED, anything not won
in the open.
FODDER FOR FANS
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 15.—Jack
Coombs, star slabman on the Ath
letic team, is out of the world’s se
ries. Jack to-day is in the University
Hospital of this city. Muscles of the
pitcher’s back, weakened by a recent
attack of typhoid fever, physicians
say, were unable to stand the strain
in his attempt to work into condition,
and it is said he may be placed in a
plaster cast for several weeks.
Izlin Member of Cup
Defender Committee
NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 15.—Colonel
Oliver Izlin, millionaire sportsman to
day' became a member of the syndicate
which commissioned Nat Herreshoff to
bull the yacht that will defend the
America's cup against Sir Thomas Lip-
ton’s challenger.
Lookouts Get Mike
Ealenti From Browns
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.,
President Andrews, of the
nooga Club announced from
nati to-day the purchase
Balenti from the St. Louis
The Indain shortstop was a
in 1912. and was drafted
Browns las’ f.«!!.
Sept. 15.
Chatta-
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Browns.
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TO ACT ON PROTESTED GAME.
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Tuesday and lake ml. th«* Giants' prop
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awarding the protested New York-l’hih
dciphia game, putyed Augu.it jv, to the
EliiUivA.
The Phillies gained a full game on the
Giants yesterday by winning from the
Reds while the New Yorkers w’ere be
ing coated with whitewash by the Cubs.
• • •
The Giants yesterday established a
season’s record by garnering 14 hits
and getting men on base through errors,
yet failirtg to score a run. Eleven Giants
were left standed on bases for the lack
of a timely hit, while the rest perished
trying to beat Jimmy Archer’s throws
to second.
* * *
The Dodgers and Cardinals staged a
burlesque game yesterday, which finally
ended in a victory for the Cardinals,
the victory being made possible by two
erros by Yingling, the Dodgers’ pitch
er who went into the box In the ninth
and booted the two easy chances that
came his way.
• • •
Judged by the present showing of both
clubs, if the Giants and Athletics were
to go into the world’s series fight now,
the New Yorkers would be topheavy fa
vorites in the betting. The Giant bat
ters have recovered from their slump,
the fielding has perked up considerably
and the pitchers are whizzing along in
nice form.
• • •
With the Athletics, however the club
bing slump still continues, $100,000 infield
continues to wabble and the pitchers
are hurling in-and-out games. Bender
and Plank, who with Coombs did the
work for the Athletics in the 1911
world’s series battles, can not seem to
get back inot their stride an<t the young
twlrlers are unable to pitch consistent
ball with indifferent support.
• • •
However Connie Mack doesn’t seem
to worry—for publication at least. Con
nie has an idea that his team will round
into world's series form before October
comes around nnd give the Giants the
battle of their lives
* * *
The Yank- are hopeful of emerging
from the . position r\ the Amer -
I are now 4 >
I throe points in the real oi the Browne
I “Once we get out. we’ll .stay out.’’ de-
j Manager Chance
■* * *
j Chance, by U>e way, expect* great
things of his team next year. The ad
dition of an almost new infield ami sev
eral outfield recruits who look “good"
make Chance feel that his team will be
able to rumble along in the first division
next year.
* * *
The. Naps are mighty gl6d that they
will h%ye no more games with the Sen
ators this year. The Washington ag
gregation. which always has “jinxed"
the Clevelanders, took fifteen out of
twenty-two games staged with the Naps.
W. K. Vanderbilt Into
Savannah Cup Row
SAVANNAH, Sept. 16.—William K.
Vanderbilt, the “Father of the Vander
bilt Cup,” was drawn to-day into the
fight between the Savannah Automobile
Association and the racing motorists, the
result of which will determine whether
the cup and Grand Prix races will be
held at Savannah next November.
President Harvey Granger conferred
with him in New York to-day and sent
an optimistic telegram to Savannah.
Mr. Vanderbilt agrees with Mr. Gran
ger that the association should not re
turn the entrance fees or pay the freight
on racing entries. He will at once con
sult with the automobile manufacturers
BINGHAMTON WINS PENNANT.
BINGHAMTON, X Y., Sept. 15 —
The local baseball club won the pen
nant in the New York State League
with 84 victornes and 63 defeats. The
Wilkesbarre. Pa., club finished second,
with 84 victories and 56 defeats.
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IN THE FALL.
Of nil and words it fan can hear
The worst arc: “Watch our smoke
next year
At this writing George Stovall is
the most popular baseball player in
St. Louis. This is because he Is no
longer a member of the Browns.
Jim Flynn announces that he still is
in the fight game, but it is hard to
believe it after watching him in the
ring.
George Stovall is on the market.
He is charged with being a regular
ball player, which is an unpardonable
crime in St. Louis.
If you had your choice between
holding a Government job in Mexico
and being a manager in the American
League, what would you do? That’s
just what we thought.
EPITAPH.
Here lies a motorcyclist hold whose
soul has wandered hence.
He was a wild and daring youth, but
hadn't any sense.
A motorbike was never built to jump
a picket fence.
The report that the Disturber has
arrove in England does not necessar
ily mean that Sylvia Pankhurst has
returned to her native heath.
“America,” says a British expert,
“will one day excel in golf as in other
athletic sports.” To say nothing of
chess and other athletic sports.
A chunk of bone weighing 500
pounds has been unearthed in the
wilds of Maine. This shows that pre
historic man played baseball.
A scribe in the East informs us that
Bob Fitzsimmons hasn’t a gray hair
on his head. He neglects to mention
that Mr. Fitzsimmons hasn’t a brown
hair, or a black hair, or a pink hair,
or a blue hair, or a green hair, or a
mauve hair, or a hair of any race,
color, creed or previous condition of
servitude. Aside from thaj he re
sembles Paderewski.
Ping Bodie is busy reciting those
famous lines by Coleridge: “Lager,
lager everywhere, but H20 to drink.”
BODIE SINGS AGAIN.
Drink to me only with thine eyes
And / will drink with mine,
Hut not the foaming stuff that lies
Within a cooling stein.
Like nectar from Olgmpus tossed,
It is a drink divine,
Hut what a single stein has cost
Would buy a vat of wine.
Tremendous Driving Power Marks Play of Club’s New Coifing Champion
ADAIR DEFEATS BLANTON FOR A. A. C. TITLE
G eorge w. adair is the golfing
champion of the Atlanta Ath
letic Club for the season of
1913—one of the best golfing seasons,
by the way. the club ever has enjoyed.
Mr. Adair, playing a spectacular
brand of golf, won the final match
from R. G. Blanton, 6 up and 4 to
play, In 36 holes of excellent golf,
under weather conditions not partic
ularly favorable to consistent play.
The final match began with a good-
sized gallery following the morning
round. Blanton was playing his usual
Moran Cowrad, Says
Manager of Smith
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Jim Buck-
ley, manager of Gunboat Smith, the
“white hope destroyer,” to-day openly
accused Frank Moran, conqueror of A1
I’alzer and a number of other “white
hopes, - ' of cowardice.
“Moran roared around about wanting
a fight with Gunboat,” declared Buckely.
“We agreed to give him a fight next
Friday night and were ready to post
our forfeit of $1,000. As soon as he
knew we meant business Moran backed
out.”
Bat Nelson Says
He Has Quit Game
SEATTLE. WASH. Sept. 15.—Battling
Nelson, perhaps the greatest light
weight fighter who ever lived, has an
nounced that he has hung up the gloves
that bring him fame and victory and
never will don them again.
Bat deslares he is through with the
fighting game for all time, “and this
ain’t no Patti farewell, neither; it's a
real so-long ”
KILBANE BATTLES WALSH.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Sept. 15.—Ac
companied by his manager, Jimmy
Dunn, Featherweight Champion Johnny
Kilbane to-day is heading for Boston,
where he will meet Jimmy Walsh, of
that city, in a twelve-round bout to
morrow night. Kilbanegexpressed confi
dence in his ability to defeat Walsh.
steady game, while Adair, right at the
start, showed promise of some ex
traordinary driving, which was fully
realized as the play progressed.
Playing full into a strong east wind,
the coming champion laid a second
shot on No. 2 green and sank his sec
ond put for a 4, the par rating of that
hole being 4 1-2. On the eighth hole
Adalr'n drive was well over 300 yards,
being almost in the second trap.
Once or twice the tremendous driv
ing power got the winner Into trouble,
but far more often it put him in posi
tion for an easy pitch shot to the
green, while his opponent, forced to
take chances with a midiron, or even
a brassy, was under a much greater
strain.
The finish of the morning round
found Adair 3 up. Going out in the
afternoon, with a big gallery follow
ing the play, he added one more hole
and turned w’lth the score 4 holes in
his favor.
Adair won the tenth hole, halved
the eleventh, nnd won the twelfth,
making him dormle 6.
Blanton played brilliantly on the
thirteenth, his opponent picking up
after a bad third shot, and still had a
long chance when the pair drove oft'
for the fourteenth. This hole Adair
made in 4. however, and w*on the
hole and the match—and the club
championship.
On the five holes played on the
homew’ard journey of the last round
Adair registered three 4s, a 3, and a
pick-up. His golf, apart from his
spectacular driving, was extremely
steady, and his putting was deadly
accurate. His opponent suffered
somewhat in the breaks of the game,
but played pluckily and steadily to
the finish.
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