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Milan, Foster and, Are Among Immortals of Baseball, STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM, ITS WHEN A THING IS A GO THAT WE FEELI IT HAS COME TO STAY THE TIMES COMPLETE SPORTING PAGE WB Heat Outdoor Sports P3r Service, Inc.) By TAD Inc.) Stupid fcwwv to me voo o3 ra th-? rfzfi om a oot voo ,57 mek td VOTE 6m tkc vfj? elclttp a new chigp outlet? i XHe up p(10ia 7w? i7t otfw a tricx ZEB MILAN, EDDIE FOSTER AND DANDY CAP. McBRlDE AMONG FORTY IMMORTALS By AL MUNRO ELIAS. Only forty men of the thousands identified with the game of today, of annexed a thousand or more hits during their entire major league Of this number Frank Schulte, Zeb Milan, Bert Shotton, Eddie Foster, and George McBride are Griffmen. Schulte Bade most of his total with the old Chicago Cubs. Bert Shotton did i of his hitting with the St.

Louis Browns, but Milan, Foster and McBride did their walloping as members of the Washington club. Including Hans Wagner and Larry Lajoie, who have passed beyond big league view, only seren of the present day athletes have scored one thousand or more runs duirng all the years they were connected with the pastime. la his twelve years with the Wuntertoln dab Zeb Milan baa averaged lfl safe yearly In than dosen years th? Utile center fielder hu averaged JB with the ML Eddie Foster eight years a major learner hare given him a iitntn or JM, with an average of IB hits ymmrly. grand old-timer averaging aafe swats yearly, and a batting average of ifl. Lcda Oat of thaoe forty players compiling at Mast 1.000 hits.

are American Leaguers, and eighteen members of the parent organisation. Warner, In the sweep of twenty-one oeaaoas. failed to got with hi nine points of the mark established hy Lajoie In the same number of there ends the supremacy of the Frenchman. 1a all other except In tiro-base hits Warner has been the superior to Lajola The Flying Dutchman played In more fames than did Usjole. was at hat oftener, made mora rune, more triples, more home more total bases.

and averaged more hits per ftme than his mighty rival. Walter hammered out more than any many ever identified wiOi baseball. His record of 251 triples eclipses any la that department. Only one a.mi him in four swats, and Latote alone topped tbe bare margin of the matter of ttraase Moving down to Ty Cobb, who ranks tfalrd in the list -ranking being made on the basts of the greatest number of more forcibly impressed than erer with the amazing of the "Southern Typhoon" in his fourteen years a star In the majors. Cobb's Average Best.

Cobb's hitting mark of .371 is the KOit turned In by any of tbe present-day swatamlths. -Furthermore. his average of 180 hits per seaeon ia the beat of any in the game A atudy of tbe other departmenta abowa that If Cobb maintains hie present average and plays the game for twenty-one as did Wagner and I-ajole. he will pasa both in practically every department of achievement. the close of the 1918 season Cobb had made 2.524 ISO per season.

(liven seven more years at tbe same ratio means that at end of twenty one years of play Cobb will have smashed out 3.7H4 hits, against 9.430 for Wagner and 3.239 for Lajoie. By maintaining hif average of and home runs. Cobb shotlld move beyond the marks made by hfa two great rivala long before he has lived twenty-one years vnder big league tents. In the matter of run scoring Ty Cobb's average is far greater than that of Wagner and Lajoie. Me haa tcored something like 05 runa per Seven more yeara at the aame rate woald give him 965 or a grand total of close to 2.000.

against 1,741 for Wagner and 1,501 by Lajole. "Wreekere" Held Bosh. The compilation which accompanlea this article and llata the of the preaent day men who have made 1.000 or more hlta brings cat many peculiar Incidents. Perhaps the moat remarkable of all is the fact that Doalo Bush, of the has scored 1,003 runa on 1374 In 1,497 games. Bush has been In the big Jsagaes as long aa Trls Speaker, haa made r.early 200 hits tear, yet has aoofod nearly 1 SO morp Speaker's graad average fo- eleven years In batting line la while Buah haa hit far only How.

then. It possible for Buah to score 1,003 runs while hit points beyond him and played In approximately the seme number of games, should score The answer Is slapto." Throughout the major portion of those eleven years Bush had behind him the famous wrecking crew of Cobb and Cmwford. and when this pair dissolved partnership it was Cofcb and Vfeach "-ho continued to hammer him across ihe plate almost every time that he got on. Another of the many remarkable things about the records is the fact that Gabby Cravath, of the Phillies, lit nine seasons has smashed out a greater number of home runs than any man identified vith the game at the present a greater number of circuit swats than Wagner, Lajoie, Cobb, or any of the others. The slugging member of the Philadelphia Nationals has hammered out 106 circuit hits, while the next best record is 100, by Wagner, followed by 9" by Wildflri Frank Schulte, and 83 by Sherry Magee.

of the Reds. Bar ma Plays To George Burns, of the Giants goes the honor getting his four figures of basehits, while playing the least number of games. George got his 1,017 swats in just 914 games, he being the only player to get a thousand hits in less than a thousand games, and Burns and Derrill Pratt, of the Yankees, are ths only players listed in the table to get their thousand hits in seven years. Just ten players could average 150 or more hits per season of the galaxy of stars shown in the table. Of these Ty Cobb is away out in front, for Ty has bagged an averaged of 180 base hits each year with the Tigers.

A good second to the Georgia peach comes Home Run the Yanks' slugger's yearly average showing 168 hits. Han Wagner is third with 16C. Then come in order, Duffy Lewis. 156: Derrill Pratt, 155; Nap Lajoie and Jake Dauebrt with 154 each: Tris Speaker. 153.

Joe Jackson, 152. and Max Carey, 151 bits a year. The following players, eleven in all played all their major league games with but one teaiy. Ty CoSb and Donie Bush with Detroit, Art Fletcher and George Burns with tha Giants, Zach Wheat and Jake Daubert with Brooklyn. Harry Hooper and Duffy Lewis with Boston, Clyde with Washington.

Max Carey with Pittsburgh and John Collins with Chicago. Terry engaged in two games for the Pirates in 1901, during which he got three hits. But for this he would have gotten every one of his big league hits with the Indians. Larry l.rada Jnhnaealaaa. Although Nap Lajoie's combined National and American League record Is given in the table, his record in the American League Is plenty good enough to give him the honor position in the Junior organisation for the greatest number of basehits.

as the following American League record of Lajoie's shows: Years, 16. games, 1.9H5; at bat, runs, 1.091; hits, doubles, 512; triples, 128: home runs. 50; total bases, P. 343. This gives the lead to Lejole In the Johnson circuit.

Nap having batted out 23 more hits during sixteen years of play than Cobb amassed In fourteen seasons. Of the forty plnyerg that hammered a thousand major basehits twenty-five are regular Inflelders, and the remaining fifteen cover outfield posltlona. The lead In total bases on hlta Is also held by Hans Wagner. The marvelous Dutchman hit for the enormous o' 4.S73. nearly 400 see more than Lajeie hit.

It Is to he regretted that agner could not hsve played just a little longer, if -only to set one record that would undoubtedly endure as long as baaeball Is played, that of hitting for a total 5,000 bases, for when Hans pet his bats away for the last tlsse he needed but 121 Carl Cashion Tops All Batsmen Jay, Carl Cashion, the mountaineer, who once wore a Washington uniform, led all the batsmen in the American Association last season, walloping the for an average of .346. "Cash" came up to the plate 211 times in 52 frames, driving out 73 bingles and scoring 20 tallies. Sixteen doubles, five triples, and five homers show the destructiveness of this slugger. ED ROUSH EARNS HARD LUCK TITLE A wonderful catch of difficult fly ball deprived Ed Roush of the batting championship of the National League And a strange feature in connection with It is the fact that Roush made the catch himself, and didn't have a hit taken away from him. This apparent Impossibility is confirmed by the official averages, and goes on record as one of the most A-eakish happenings.

perhaps, in baseball history. If Roush had muffed that fly, or let it drop untouched, he would have led the league in hitting. During a game against St. Louis, with a Cardinal runner on third, Roush tore in for a short, fast-dropping fly. He got hold of the ball, but stumbled, went to his knees, and let it get out of his hands.

By a marvelous, lighting grab, he got the ball before it touched the ground, and, rising, threw f.o third base, whence the Cardinal runner had started for the plate. Roush claimed a double play on the ground that the runner had left before the ball was caught, and Hank O'Day, the umpire, sustained the claim. But the rules say that a runner can start from a base after a fly ball has been "momentarily Jack Hendricks, manager of the Cardinals, promptly protested the game on the ground that Roush had momentarily held the ball before he dropped and recovered it. The St. Louis claim was allowed; the game, and all that had been done therein, went off the records.

And, as it happened. Ed Roush had made two hits out of three times at bat that afternoon. He lost the hits, and, with those hits, he lost the and the honor of leading the league two years in succession. According to the official records, Zack Wheat, of Brooklyn, finished with 409 times at bat and 137 hits? a record of .835. Roush wound up with 435 times at bat and 145 hits.

Put in the ousted game and Roush would have had 438 bats with 147 record of .336. braves'Toung CATCHER DIES AFTER OPERATION BOSTON, Jan. Rico, the young catcher of the Boston National League baseball club. Is dead of peritonitis, superinduced by appendicitis. Rico was recently discharged from the United States navy, having served on the United States ship Georgia In foreign waters.

He was twenty-six years old and unmarried. STARTS NEXT WEEK. Columbia University's basketball season gets under way next Friday. Brooklyn Poly being Its opponent at Mornlngside Heights, From then on the schedule will call for about two games weekly. PLAYS RETURN GAME.

Wssterr High will go right back at Baltimere City Collage en Friday la a gams la Baltimore. Players. Games. At Bat. Runs.

H1U. Hans Wagner 21 2,804 10,428 1,741 3,430 Nap Lajoie 21 2,469 9,577 1,501 3336 Ty 14 1,803 6,799 1,322 2,524 Rhody Wallace 24 2,365 8,616 1,056 2,306 Sherry Magee 15 2,028 7,278 1,101 2,133 Eddie Collins 13 1,578 5,493 1,049 1,817 Hal Chase 13 1,587 6,152 795 1,778 Frank Schulte 15 1,800 6,533 906 1,766 Clyde Milan 12 1,613 6,051 825 1,710 Tris 11 1,336 4,945 878 1,686 Larry Doyle 12 1,509 6,655 851 1,641 Ed Konetchy 11 1,543 5,626 722 1,532 Frank Baker 9 1,271 4,864 741 1,510 Teny Turner 15 1,621 6,792 693 1,474 H. Zimmerman 11 1,282 4,860 639 1,453 Harry Hooper 10 1,382 5,242 821 1,409 Dode IW.ert 12 1,441 5,168 782 1,408 Zack Wheit 10 1,233 4,630 565 1388 Jake Daubert 9 4,552 648 1,387 Donie 11 1,497 6,549 1,003 1,374 Joe Jackson 9 1,040 3,878 686 1,370 Fred Merkle 12 1,376 4,941 632 1,349 Stuffy Mclnnis 10 1,159 4,232 502 1,308 Duffy Lewis 8 1,184 4,325 500 Larry Gardner 10 1,255 4,370 546 1,235 Dick Hoblitzel 11 1,317 4,706 591 1,210 Max Carey 8 1,159 4,453 686 1,209 Bert Shotton 9 1,170 4328 670 1,202 Fred Luderus 9 1,183 4,311 509 1,188 Charley Herzog 11 1,266 4,510 625 1,180 Art Fletcher 10 1,138 4,107 527 1,131 Jimmy Austin 10 1,345 4,601 554 1,131 Derrlll 7 1,029 3,871 450 1,088 Eddie Foster 8 1,030 4,023 527 1,082 John Collins 9 1,139 4,117 481 1,054 Georpre McBride 11 1,429 4,752 450 1,051 GaVvy Cravath 9 1,090 3,689 539 1,048 Chick Gandil 8 1,031 3,804 396 1,048 J. C. Smith 8 1,030 3,666 452 1,028 Georjje (Katy) Burns 7 914 3,541 565 1,017 J-B.

3-B. H. B. Ttl Bases. A hits P.

per year. 641 650 395 390 419 219 255 288 182 315 267 244 262 200 352 191 246 231 138 144 234 260 158 254 172 194 170 134 219 168 166 148 198 135 203 125 297 149 201 175 251 188 199 147 166 125 100 114 83 127 112 131 103 77 98 107 63 97 78 57 134 74 54 63 93 78 80 59 47 63 57 62 79 54 91 42 78 71 49 57 79 67 35 83 21 29 92 13 40 63 47 67 8 53 20 34 46 32 8 35 14 26 17 27 30 6 79 20 19 11 23 6 15 5 105 10 26 22 4.873 4,499 3,518 3,095 3,133 2,349 2.320 2,558 2,097 2,375 2.321 2,179 2,179 1362 2,160 1.874 1,882 1,951 1,777 1,656 1,977 1,916 1,616 1,706 1,644 1,641 1,629 1,472 1,738 1,534 1,468 1,436 1,513 1,323 1,484 1,275 1,726 1,369 1,405 1,380 .329 .338 371 .263 .293 331 .289 .270 .282 .341 .290 .272 311 .255 .299 .267 372 .300 .305 .248 .353 .273 .309 .289 .283 .258 .272 .278 .276 .262 .275 .246 .281 .264 .256 .221 .284 .275 380 .287 In above table players are ranked according to th enumber of base hits. 163 164 180 96 142 139 118 143 153 137 139 168 98 132 141 117 139 154 125 162 112 131 156 124 110 151 134 132 107 113 113 155 133 117 96 116 131 129 145 HARRIS AND SMITH SURE FOR INDIANS CLEVELAND, Jan. baseball fans have been patiently waiting: for some word from the front of Joe Harris, the demon hitter who cavorted around the initial sack for the Indians in 1917. Although a newcomer in fast company, Joe hit the pill hard, breaking up many a game in favor of the Tribe, and it was freely predicted that had he been in the line-up the past season the Indians would have won the flag pulled up.

Joe Harris is still Joe Harris, and is keen to get back in his baseball togs as a member of the Indiana. Lieut. Ed Klepfer writes that Harris went through the world war unscathed. and is anxious to return to the United States so as to be ready to accompany the Cleveland players on their trip to the Sunny South. Klepfer adds that Elmer Smith, the hardhitting right fielder, also got by without a scratch, and that if enthusiasm counts for anything Smitty will lead the league in hitting in 1919.

INTERNATIONAL TO MONDAY AND CHOOSE BOSS: NEW YORK, Jan. chiefs of the International League will meet here Monday to elect a president and determine its course of action in the minor league meeting at Chicago, January 14. Dave Kultz, former major league player and organizer of the Players' Fraternity, will be elected president of the league to succeed John A. Farrell, it is said here to- day. DUFFY LEADS CRIMSON.

CAMBRIDGE. Mas Jan. Duffy, former league star outfielder and manager of the White In the Ainerloan League, will again act as coach or the Harvard vastly baseball team for the coming seauon. This will be his third eeaaon with the Crimson. PLAYING NAVY TODAY.

The strong Crescent A. of New York, is playing basketball today against the Middies at Annapolis. On Wednesday Johns Hopkins will battle the sailors, and on next Saturday Lehigh will be the attraction. Seals Becker Not SoHefty Beals Becker led the American Association's sluggers in 1917 with an average of .323, hut he -was not so hefty last year, finishing down at the .278 Becker was with the champion Kansas City club. He came to bat 245 times in 74 games, hitting safely 68 times and scoring 36 runs.

HAS SERBIAN GIANT TO TACKLEWILLARD Idsef Kortloff, Serbian, twentytwo years old, 6 feet inches tall and weighing 341 pounds, may be the next opponent of Jess Willard for the world's heavyweight championship. Color Sergt. Walter Duggan, of New York, has found this delicate youngster overseas and says that he can box fairly well right now and can be i taught. Kortloff is at Coblenz, Germany. where the American army is i keeping an eye on things.

If this Serbian whale stacks up against Willard he will have some ninety pounds' advantage and will tower Ave and a half Inches above the Kansas cowboy. BENNY KAUFF SIGNS FOR NEXT YEAR WITH GIANTS NEW YOKK, Jan. Kaufr Is the flrat major league star to sign li 191ft contract, Kauff signed with the Glanta for one year, setting the pace lor several hundred unsigned major GAME TO HUMPHREYS. Camp Humphreys was awarded the game which the Fort Myer team won on Wednesday In the Service League. On account of furloughs the Myer men aaked to forfeit the but wanted to play with a borrowed player.

BOSTON, Jan. Meehan. who played great baseball and football at Syracuse University, may be signed by the Boston Braves for a trial next spring. Leo Callahan, the minor league outfielder, is home again after serving with Meehan in the United States navy and playing with him on the navy team in the league contests in England last summer, and Leo is loud in his praises of Meehan. "Ensign Meehan played great ball with our team," says Callahan, "and Rabbit Maranville is going to do his best to have Ueorge Stallings give him a trial." JNTR ALHIGH BATTLES ALEXANDRIA HIGH BOYS Central High School basketeers will battle the Alexandria High School youngsters at Central today in what is expected to be a practice for the Mt.

Pleasant lads. Central has failed to land a game as yet, but has hopes of coming through today. The Central-Western game scheduled for next Tuesday is creating an unusual amount of interest. While neither team has won a league engagement. both have been coming forward rapidly.

WESTERN GOLF LEADERS AFTER THREE TOURNEYS CHICAGO, Jan. directors of the Western Oolf Association will decide at the annual January 14, to reinstate the three title events. Similar action is also predicted by the directors of the U. 8. who will meet In New York a week later.

Additional Interest attaches to all of the major championships for the coming year, inasmuch as tlon has been received of the visit of Harry Vardon, James Braid, Edward Ray. J. H. Taylor, and probably two or three other celebrated British playera. RESERVES WIN IT.

Business reserves took a 27 to victory from the Eastern reserves In the Burtneaa gymnasium yesterday. See nemjc jtupio ivw riaeo of- faop OP 57AIM EMBW WGEVC TO Too TEU- ME nw kickin with -we 10 BuckJ Grt MISKE AND DEMPSEY ARE TO BOX AT NEW ORLEANS Billy Miske and Jack Dempsey may meet in a long-distance best, aftcording to advices from New Orleans today. Miske, it is said, had already agreed to face the California over the twenty-round distance, and Dempsey is expected to sign up mi's? the promoters can hook Jess Willard for him. The reports from the Crescent City intimate that the boot may ha labeled a championship affair, and that the winner may lay daim to the heavyweight title, completely ignoring Willard. Just how this would be taken by i the fistic public remains to seen.

It is doubtful that the winner of a Dempsey-Miske bout- would get ognition. But th? boat would attract a great deal of interest. Miske stands out today as the one riddle that the cyclonic Dempsey ha.i been unable to solve. The men have met several times, and Dempsey has always come away the winner, but he ha.i not been able to knock Miske out, though he bowls over all lh; other big lads like nine pins. In a twenty-round bout Wlskt believes he would have a beter chance to even up the count against the young tornado from the far away Pacific.

wesWeTeves JINX IS LEAVING estern High School believes its jinx has been chased. The Red and White basketers after trailing behind teams the greater part of the season by one, two and three points finally landed what it believes to be a real achievement in the defeat of the Baltimore City College five. The score was 25 to 24. Three times this season Western has dropped games by a single point. Twice the team lost by a four point margin.

The Westerners appeared to be lacking the punch. night's issue was decided in the last minute of play when John Groves hooked two baskets for four points which brought the score from 24 to 21 against them to 23 to 24. The teams quit the floor at the end of the first half with the score 16 to 0 in favor of Western. The City College lads got going and ran the total up to 20 to 19. Both teams failed miserably on free tosses.

Western getting but one out of nine chances and City College four out of seven. Herron, Wight and Bresee for Western and Baumgarten and Travers for City College played consistently well. Western's seconds defeated the Tech seconds in Western's gymnasium by a score of 32 to 16. The Western freshmen dropped a 15 to 14 frame to the T. M.

C. A. youngsters in a hotly contested battle. The Tech Alumni teatp romped the varsity team yesterday at the Y. M.

C. winning an easy 45 to IS contest. The Alumni playera had things their own way throughout. ENOUGH FOR NAVY YARD Connors' shooting for the Navy Yard in the week-end Service League battle, at Mt. Vernon Hall, was enough for the southeast lads to make a win out of their contest with the Marines.

The Navy Yard right forward fot fifteen of his team's seventeen making five floor baskets and five out of seven free tosses. The Navy Yard lads won by 17 to 14. The Marines were represented by the anti-aircraft division of the 135th Company, which failed to display the teamwork of the Sixth Company, which represents the Quantico men, in the last engagement. The standing of the league follows: W. Pet.

Humphreys 1 0 1.000 Operations 1 0 1.000 Navy Yard 1 1 .600 Marines 1 1 $09 Fort Myer 0 2 000 Games will be resumed Wednesday. Tn addition to the regularly scheduled battle, the Aloystus Club will play a game with a team to be announced later. Ram Melior. New Tork atrtthoner. ThoM this clty to hlBMlf for the taatwr which will la Now Tork In February.

The boxlat IM waa lifted la Orand Rapids, aad Stanley Ketchell waa listed to meet Toay Caponl January li Kor the first time since two years aro, whom Harry Levis killed, Mike Saraa la a boxing bout, a fight waa arranged. Washington was Invited to )o(a a newly formed soccer ieagaa, which included several Baltimore teami. Jack Mason, as manager of Toung posted a forfeit of to meet Packey Mac Farland. the Chicago stock yard champion. Dick Woodward was appointed coach of the Eastern High baseball team.

Woodward formerly played at Central, and was at one time an Easterner. TRIS SPEAKER MAY YET LEAD INDIANS CLEVELAND. Jan. may yet be named as manager of I be Indians for the coming season. Jia Dunn is here today for a conference with S.

Iiar-bard. business manager of the club; Lee Fohl and, and Tria Speaker. Just what the trouble Is remains a secret, but 11 Is bettered that and Fohl do not work wel and that President Dunn Is to clear up that situation before It la too late. If the break is ir Fohl will be released, and named as managed. COLLINS PLEASED AT GLEASON'S NEW JOB PHILADELPHIA.

Jan. Chicago fans could aot haw received a better New Tear gift than the Information that Kid Gleasoa would manage the White Sox next season," Mid Eddie Collina, now la the marine corps here. "He is a pepper box of baseball aad. besides knowing every angle of the game, has the happy faculty of keeping the players oa their toes aad going at top speed all the time. The men look up to and res poet 1.1m.

aad that also is a big help." JUDGE RELEASES BRUT FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE BOSTON. Jsn. Pacheeo (Toung Britt), the New Bedford boxer, was freed from all blame today in the Roxbury district court for the death of his opponent, Terry McOovern. of Philadelphia, who died laet Thursday following a boxing boat the previous night. Judge Havdon freed Britt after Police Capt Thomas Good declared he had no additional evidence ta TO MEET ALOYtlUt.

Naval Operations, Service League, will play dab men tonight la the naeivm..