Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1921, Page 29

} . SPORTS ,\ Averages of Managers 'SWITCHING OF PLAYERS | . IN PINCHES IMPORTANT : Picking of Psychological Moment for Making Substitutions in Game One of Toughest ‘Assignments Faced by Team Pilot. 2 BY BILLY EVANS. WHY don't some of these base ball statisticians figure out for us base ball fans the averages of the managers relative to changes made in the game, such as the substitution of a pitcher, the use of a pinch hitter or the pitching selections,” asked a fan well versed #%in the game. “I guess the statisticians never gave the idea a thought,” 1 replied, “or some enterprising dopester would have hit on the stunt. I believe that is about the only feature they have overlooked.” “Every year we get the batting averages, the fielding averages, the pitching averages, stolen base records, home run feats and the like, but never do we get a line on the manager, to whose judgment the success of a ball team largely depends,” continued the fan. in his selection of pitche I must admit the query offered food said one ¢ for thought, although I had never be- fore given such an idea consideration. During the base ball season the fan is constantly offering suggestions to the manager. The moment a pitcher be- gins to falter, the easily discouraged enthusiasts loudly vell that he be of the National League critics. “1f Brooklyn is trimmed Kobbie can take some of the credit,” remarked au- other writer. On this point I shall not express an are a opinion, other than to say there lot of critics who expre taken out. If a batter, who is or-|OPinion. Brooklyn was supposed to dinarily a good hitter, but happens to | have an invincible pitching staff, which, after a rather good start, in the game, the fans shout for a|Proved to be far from invincible. Anx- Often | 10us to know why the critics had not pinch hitter to replace him. | 4 before the start o hey be | agreed with Manager Robinson in his O o 15 e ey asers | pitching selections. 1 broke into the ‘ to take exceptions to the manager's | - conversation thus Bitching asiection. & “Looks to me as if Robbie did well L enough. Perhaps his pitchers were The manager always is in a peculiar | facing a little stiffer opposition. Per- position, because he must consider the | haps the Cleveland pitchers were bet- situation at hand, and must give |ter than given credit for e thought to what effect his actions will “Starting Marquard w ike picking have on the morale of his team and | a soft spot for Cleveland.” replied one #his individual player. Often a man- | of the critics. “Left-handers without ager fails to make a change, because | £reat speed didn’'t bother Cleveland he believes the loss of that particular | to any extent during the season game might be less costly than the | After Grimes had been beaten in his ?be having a bad day, comes up late the fans to know how many of the original pitching selections of each manager was able to finish his game. It would be equally interesting to know how many binch-hitters de- livered when sent to bat for some other players. Likewise, it would be valuable information to learn how many ball games were won through the hitting of players sent to bat in & pinch, and how many were saved by the substitution of some pitcher when the original selection began to falter. it would not be dificult to gather these facts. And I agree with the fan who suggested the idea, that the re- sults would be more Interesting than some of the rather dry data that is handed out. When Speaker Guessed Wrong. Cleveland won the American League pennant last year. A decislve factor in the winning of the pennant was the excellent success Manager Bpeaker met in his pitching selections and the results attained through substitu- 'tions. Speaker was fortunate in this respect. yet & game slipped eway from Cleveland last year In en un- usuad manner, although I must admit 1 would have done just ns Speaker did. Cleveland w playing at CI IS LISTED T T. Tilden, 2d, of Philadelphia and cisco, who took the Davis cup away NOT ONE DIXIE PLAYER Tilden Placed at Top in Official Ranking, With Johnston Second—Western Racketers Given Leading Two Positions in Doubles. BY W. H. HOTTEL. NNIS-in the south has gone back. This is shown in the ranking list of the players for 1920, just announced by the committee as- signed that thankless task. As was assured in advance, William of the past week, are No. 1 and No. cago. It was on the 4th of July. The clubs had been playing a five-game series, of which Chicago. had won three of the four played. Stanley Coveleskie was Speaker’s selection for the afterneon game. Cleveland got start. For seven In- a y to a goot nidgs Coveleskie held Chicago score- less, allowing only three hits, two of them rank scratches. Going Into the last half of the sighth, Cloveland enjoyed a 5-to-0 ory for the Tndlians seemed assured. 11 the last half of the leighth inning Chicago made eight hits In succession, all of them ringing | drives. Like every one else, Speaker felt sure Coveleskie would find him- self and stop the assault, because he was not weakening In the least—the Chicago club was simply hitting them safe. After Chicago had a couple of runs over and the bases filleq Speaker had two or three pitchers all ready to take Covie's place. However, Speaker was well aware no pitcher is better In a pinch than Coveleskie. and he kept pinning his faith in his star. But Covie couldn't get them out, and be- fore the inning was over Chicago had scored six runs and won the game. (Copyright, 1921.) lead, ana a vic IN FIRST 100 William M. Johnston of San Fran- from the Australians in the matches 2 in the list. It is surprising, how- destroying of the confidence of a| second start, Smith should have been player by his removal from the game. | Not only must he use the best possible Judgment in his selections, must show to advantage in picking the proper spot to make them. Then there is the army of second guessers he must combat. It is pos- « sible to take any ball game after it is over, pick it to pieces. and find a | spot or two where a slight shift/ ‘ might have changed the complexion | of the game. Many of the fans are| prone to do a lot of second guessing, likewise some of the critics. After { the sixth game of the 1920 world { series 1 was thrown into contact with several well known writers who fol- | {low certain National League clubs i during the summer. Cleveland had | just won its third straight game on| its home grounds, making the series | four to two in, favor of Cleveland, and | causing every one to think Brooklyn | was through. { “Robbie has sure used poor judgment! but he | used to start the fifth game and hold the margin for Brooklyn. His pitching, which was beaten 1 to 0 in the sixth game, would easily have won the fifth contest. It might have made a big difference in the series,” was the answer. Switching Pitchers Tough Task. As T have said, it always is easy to analyze a game or series after it is over and figure how it might havé been differently played. The _psychological moment to change a pitcher who is wavering is one of the most difficult tasks a manager faces. Place a half | dozen leaders in charge of a team, have such a situation come up, and 1 doubt if any one of the six leaders would select the same spot for a shift. Picking the pitching _selections 18 another equally difficult task. In a measure a team's success depends on the luck a manager meets with his pitching selections and his changes in a pinch. It would therefore be interesting for .Rexmen Exhibit Versatility by Their Work as Bowlers ¥ EX ATHLETIC CLUB member: s are versatile sportsmen, as shown by their brilliant performances on the bowling drives as well as in the more strenuous diamond and gridiron pastimes. Repre- sentatives of the Northeast club have fared so well at pin spilling that they now are leading the field in the National Capital Duckpin League, rated as one of the two strongest’ bowling aggregations in the District. Of 33 games rolled the Rexmen have won 27 and are pressed closely only by the Rathskeller quint, which is credited with 11 defeats. Teague statistics prove the right of the Rexmen to tcp positions. - McCar- ] thy, Mulroe, Nolan, Works and Me- Golrick have averages from 103.9 to 109.- 21 for twenty-one or more games and only two members of the league have bet- tered the mark set by McCarthy, the team leader. They are Burtner Urban, both of the Rathskeiler outfit. In twenty-one games, Burtner has aver- aged 114 pins and in thirty Urban has hit the wood at a 110.17 dip. The Rathskellers have established high game and high set records with scores 609 and 1,697. Stome of the George- has made best game at 173 at + heads the spare list with a total of ‘71 Other quint leaders are Grimes, Post Office, 106; Moore, Potomac Savings | 106.17; Megaw, Park Athletic Club, 108.22; Seyfarth, Inglesides, 106.8; Tolson, Georgetowns, 101.13; Muse, Southwest Stars, 102.7; Daly, Knickerbockers, 107.6, and Steele. Long- | powlers have B gone into third place. fellows, 100.8. The league standing : Tndividual records have beeh cornered L. Pet. by Wolstenholme, Lewis and Boss. The ;% 3%ifrst named has rolled the best set at 4 280, and his 112 average is high. Lewis 4 15 has high game at 158 and has toppled ! 16 74 spares. Boss heads the strike-makers ) 1 with 16, St. John's Lodge five has { 2 4tlbowled the high set of 1663 and high ! = game of 596. The league standing: 26 Won Lost Pet. . Stansbury 30 6 .83 Washington Herald bowlers will meet | Harmony 9 at Recreation Health Center tomorrow-| B B.. I , afternoon, at’3 o'clock, to formulate|j, Fuye: 1 plans for a closed league. A four-team | Washing 13 circuit will be organized. Games Wwill | Lebanon 13 be rolled on the Grand Central drives. | St. Johnx iz lount 11 New Jeru 2 Hats and shoes will bo at stake when | eor &, Wilting A teams representing Sol Herzog &' Co.|Wm. R Singleton e and Walkover Shoe Store clash|Hope . B 15 on the Recreation drives Thursday night. | %5 "prages - ps- s In a match bowled between these teams 19 last week, the shoe clerks were well = { trounced. ~The victors will be banqueted |. ] by the vanquished after this week's en- 15 BagemenL. 2’1') 20 The Star bowlers are setting a speedy = pace in the Newspaper League. The 2 team has established a game record of s 545 and a set record of 1567, and o * Doran McCarty, one Of its members, | Anacostia . 24 209 has toppled the pins for a mark of | Tewple-Noyes + 82 In 143, the best of the circuit. Joe Allen, Herald anchor man, has made the best set at 347, and Jimmie Boyd of the Times has bowled a flat game of 92. National Capital and District le have arranged their schedules for the meonth as follows: NATIONAL CAPITAL LBEAGUE. Januvary—3, 8. W. Stars vs. Potomacs; 4, In- ides vs. Ratbskeller; 5, Park A. C.'vs. Kniekerbockers: 6, Post Office va. Longfellows: 7, Bex A. C. vs. Georgetowns; 11, Georgetowns 12, Potomacs ve. Post Office: ark A. C.: 13, 8. W. Stars va. Rex A. 17, Rathekelier vs. Longleliows; 15, Rex A. (. ve. Inglesides; Park A. C. vs. Potomacs: Knickerbockers va. Georgetown va. 5. W. Stars: 25, Iuglesi 26, Koickerbockers vs. 8. W. Stars; 27, Park A G vs. Rex A C; 28, Georgétowns va. Rathskelter: Potomacs we. Lopgfellows; 31, Rex A. C. vs. Rathskeller. DISTRICT LEAGUE. ace: Rex A. C. vs. Casiu kelier; 10, White Palace’ vs. tricts va. Rex A. C.; 12, C: Poatiac Oidsmobile; 13, Royals: 17, Districts vs. ‘Goodfeilows; 19, Rathskelle Eoyals vs.' Re White Palace vs. Ouasino; 24, Rex A. C. vs. Pontiac: 25, Koyals ve. Nationals: 26, Districts vs. White Palace; 2 va. Goodfellows; 28, Casino vs. Rathskeiler; 31, White Palace vs. Royals. Soccer Game Listed for Today. A soccer game that is expected toj Prove of great interest is scheduled for the Monument lot this after- moon, starting at 2.30 o'clock, when the Washington Rovers tackle the Carroll United team of Baltimore. The Jatter organization is well up in the first division of the Baltimore Soccer League and is regarded as capable of giving the local outfit a tough ar- gamant, A. eliows vs. Knickerboekers: | | -| average “| for a mark of 98 .| of the Sto: 1 Job .. lllann 25 victories and STANSBURY AT THE TOP Holds Comfortable Lead in Ma- sonic Bowling League With Race About Half Over. With its schedule nearly half com- Ipleted. Stansbury Lodge holds a com- fortabie lead in the race for first honors of the Masonic Bowling League. Stans- bury has been setting a swift pace since the opening of the campaign and won thirty of its thirty-six starts to top the twenty-nine other members of the largest bowling circuit in this section. Harmony Lodge is well intrenched in second position and the B. B. French FOUNDRY ROLLERS LEAD Stores, Lino and Job Teams Are 7 Close Up in Government Printing Office League. Foundry and Stores teams are stage ng & warm race for first position in the Government Printing Office Duck- pin League, with the Foundrymen at present leading by a nose. They have won 17 games and lost 10, against 18 wins and 12 losses marked up for the Stores combination. Lino and Job quints are tieq for third place with 17 victories and 13 defeats each. Ellett of the Job team has the best in the league. In twenty- seven games he has toppled the pins . His nine strikes mark, but Herrman es leads in_spares, with olomon of Stores has also go as a hig forty-four. ' made a high set at 321, and Farrell, a teammate, high game at 129. Besides Ellett, the quint leaders are: Brown. Foundry. 97; Herrman, Stores, 97.3; Hartung, Lino, 95.19; Gleason, Mono, 95.5, and Heard, Press, 89.8. The team standing follows: Foundry Btores Lino “Feeds” Princeton and Yale. Of meventeen first string foot ball players at Hill School last season, efght will enter Princeton, a Ik number Yale and one Dartmouth. ever, that not a player south of the Mason and Dixon line is among the leading hundred. The others in the first ten are R. Norris Williams, 2d, of Boston; Ichiya Kumazage, the Japanese, who now is residing in New York Willis E. Davis of San Francisco, C. J. Griffith of San Francisco, Watson M. Washburn of New York, Charles S. Garland of Pittsburgh, Nat W. | ‘Western players take the first two places in the doubles, Johnston and Griffin being at the top, with Davis and Roland Roberts of San Francisco next in line. Williams and Richard Harte of Boston are placed third; the Kinsay brothers, Howard and Robert, of San Francisco, fourth, and Joh: son and Stanley Pearson of Philadel- phia, fifth. Tilden, although he played in several doubles combina- tions, including Johnston in the Davis cup preliminaries and final, is not rated in this class. Mrs. Mallory Regains Crown. Mrs. Franklin 1. Mallory, nee Mol- la Bjurstedt of New York, won her way back to the van in the woman's singles, the next four being .Miss Marion Zinderstein of West Newton, Mass.; Miss Eleanor Tennant of Los Angeles, Miss Helen Baker of San Francisco and Miss Eleanor Goss of New York. Jolts were dealt the experts who ranked the “first ten” in advance of the committee, composed of Abra- ham Bassford, jr.. chairman; Walter Merrill Hall, Samuel Hardy, Paul W. Gibbons, N. W, Niles and R. F. Woods. None of the experts, and we speak of New York writers of national re- pute, ranked Kumagae, as the Jap- anese star went to the Olympics, ‘where he reached the final in the sin- gles, and did not take part in the big American events. Niles’ name was not placed in the honor list by the writers, Roberts and Vincent Rich- ards being the two to be included in the ten picked by them. Grifin Was Overiooked. There is evidence in the list that the rankers and the Davis cup committee do not agree. Williams originally was chosen as the third player to go to Australia, but when he decli ‘Washburn was chosen. However, in the ranking list Davis and Griffin both appear ahead of the New York racketer who made the trip. Wash- burn is not rated as a great doubles player, while Griffin shares the na- tional title with Johnston, and Dav! i® the strong player of the combin: tion that gets second place to the champions. According to this “dope” Griffin would have been the logical man to go. There no mention has of either him or Davis declining. Connle Doyle’s retirement took the south off the tennis map. He was 15th last year, but there were others in the first 100. This year, however, C. M. Charest of Baltimore is the first southerner to appear on the list, and he is No. 113. There are just two others in the 161 names mentioned. C. Y. Smith of Atlanta, who won the southern title, is 129th and Henry Bruns of New Orleans is 143d. American Netmen Are Given an Ovation were given an ovation today after William T. Tilden and William M. Johnston had defeated Gerald Patterson and Norman Brookes, respectively, in the last of the singles in the Davis Cup play to give the challenging Yankees a clean sweep of the five matches. of the Americans four sets to gain his victory. g UCKLAND, New Zealand, January 1.—The American tennis players The opinion generally expréssed was that, while Brookes was beaten only by his age, Patterson is capable of reaching the front rank of the world players, provided he discards his pres- ent backhand style and trains harder. Brookes was beaten today by John- 3 | ston’s youth and a shade more speed. With a fraction more endurance and his unquestionable masterly tactics Brookes might have succeeded. Joh ston’s play was superior to Tilden's except his services, his volleying be- ing clean and accurate throughout. At one stage of the match Johnston emulated the sportsmanlike conduct of Brookes in one of the earliest sets of A J.M. Stein Some designed and coats at special reductions Our 20% off on all Suitings and Ove-coatings —with our entire stock of imported and domestic woolens from which to by like reductions on some Overcoats we- have made up. The point is this—they are of the J. M. Stein standard in character of —and you are privileged siderable reduction from their actual value. First come—first served—and there are not masy. J. M. Stein & Co. Niles of Boston and Wallace F. Johnson of Philadelphia. The south did a little better in the | doubles. J. W. Eggleston and Hugh Whitehead of Norfolk, Va., are 2th among 45 pairs ranked. Charest and William Sweeney of Baltimore. who won the middle Atlantic title in the tourney played here, are 23d. The committee was obliged to con- sider the records of some 6,000 play- ers, and consequently a place on the ranking list this year was harder to achieve than ever before. The in- crease in competition, with the result- ant rise in the standard of tournament play, means that players had to ex- cel their 1919 performances in order to win a ranking. “ In reaching its findings the commit- tee used the mathematical system to determine the relative value of matches in sanctioned tournaments. No attention was given to indoor play, and the committee was guided by the instructions of the annual meeting to rank only upon performance and not upon its opinion of the players’ rela- tive ability. The committee was per- mitted, however, when in its judgment such action was warranted, to use the matheinatical system simply as a guide to determine the player's ul- timate position. ‘The number of young players who have been included in this year’s list shows the results of the National As- sociation’s plan to develop junior and boys’ competition. Many youngsters Of_ our who started tournament temnis only a few seasons back have won posi- tions on the ranking list against ex- perienced campaigners. Other Players Rated High. . The man piayers from Nos. 11 to 25 are as follows: 11, Roland- Rob- erts, San_ F¥ancisco; 12, Vincent Richards, Yonkers, N. Y.; 13, 8. H. Voshell, Brooklyn; 14, Dean Mathey, Cranford. N. J.; 15, G. C. Caner, Cam- bridge, Mass.; 16, H. A. Throckmorton, N. Y.; 17, F. T. Hunter, New York; 18, W. T. Hayes, Chicago; 19, Richard Harte, Boston; 20, Craig Biddle, Phila- delphia; 21, T. R. Pell, New York; 22. John Hennessy, Indianapolis; 23, How- ard Kinsey, San Francisco; 24, Alex M. Squair, Chicago; 25, W. M. Hall, New York. The men’s doubles from Nos. 6 to 10 follow: 6, Leonard Beekman and Wal ter M. Hall, New York; 7, Dean Ma- they, Cranford, N. J., and Watson M. Washburn, New York city; 8, Alfred 8. Dabney and N. W. Niles, Boston, Mass.; 9, James Weber and Lucien E. Williams, Chicago; 10, Ralph Burdick and Walter T. Hayes, Chicago. Woman players ranged from Nos. 6 to 10 are: 6, Mrs. Edward Raymond, Hartsdale, New York: 7, Miss Marie Wagner, Yonkers, N. Y.;'8, Miss Hel- ene Poliak, New York; 9, Miss Edith Sigourney, Boston; 10, Miss Margaret Grove, New York. by Australians It took each the contest by deliberately making a false stroke in order to rectify what he believed was a mistaken decision of the umpire. Tilden said he hoped to see the Aus- tralian team in the next cup matches in_the United States. Brookes heartily congratulated the Americans, declaring the best team had won. 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