New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1917, Page 8

utelde Abead-of Siser II, Dec. 17—For the ninth the last ten years Tyrus Ray- B CObY, the flery Georglan of the t Tigers, won the batting cham- Ip 'of the American League. . according to official averages, 83 last season. Thie is the high- be has had since 1913, when he ed for .380. ° Cobb easily proved his all around jeriority, as he aso led his league number of hits, 225; great- mber. of two baggers, 44; great- Bumber of thres baggers, 23, and number of stolen -bases, 55. ne man, Donie Bush of his own ki, scored morg runs. Bush scored $12° runs and Cobb 107. Bush enjoys hi ership largely because he hap- ‘have Cobb. batting two posi- below him. ''Wallie Pipp of the who ‘led in home runs with e e s nl'ne, only had two more homers than .Cobb On the whole it was the best year Ty has had in year !" George Sisler, the phenomennl first baseman of the St. Louis Browns, fin- ished in second place, with an aver- age of .353. He beat Tris Speaker. of Cleveland, the 1916 batting champion, ‘by one point. Tris hit .352, a drop of thirty-four points from his 1916 figures. Eleven Players in .300 CIA- The Amtsriean League had eleven regular players hittlng .300. or befter, sgainst only six .300 hitters in the National League. For thefirst time mince 1908 the name of Eddie Collins of the Chicago White Sox i missing among the .300 brigade of thé Ameri: can League. Eddie finished with ,889, Joe Jackson, who also had quite & slump, managed to finish just within the .300 circle. He batted .301 by reason of some clouting against the Yankees in the last series of the year. Stuffy MecInnis, of the Athletics, who fell to .297 in 1816, his first flap. out of the .300 class since 1909, was back again among the elect with an average of .303. Allan Russell, the spitball pitcher, led the 'Yankees. He was the only .300 hitter on Ruppert's team. Allan hit .323 for thirty games. John Franklin Baker was the leading Yan- kee batter among the New York reg- ulars with an average of .282. Baker CLUB BATTING. has not hit .300 since leaving the Ath- letics at the expiration of the 1914 season. One of the leading reasons why the Yankees tumbled back into sixth place last season is indicated.in the club batting figures, where the Yahkees trail the fleld with .238. "“The Detroit Tigers led in club batting with .251. and strangely enough the tail-ena Athletics were second, showing un- mistakably that Mack's team had a punch_even though, it was without good pitchers. Yankecs Iead in Homers. The only thing the Yankees -dis- tinguished, themselves in was home- run hitting, showing that those fences at the Polo Grounds do’ count. The Yankees led the league in home run- ning with 27, Detroit being close be- Rind them with 25. The Washington club had the low record of only fomur homé\;uns all season. The home ryn- ning of the Yankees was largely done by Pipp, Baker and Hendryx, who rapped out 20 of the team's 27—Pipp leading with 9, Baker mext with 6, while T¥m mauled out 5, getting two of them in the same game, Edaie Collins, of the Whlu Sux, drew the most bases ~on—balis—89. Tris ‘Speaker, of Cleveland, had a re- markably low number of strikeouts— only 14 in 142 games—and Sisler fanned only 19 times in 135 games. No other batters approached this pair in low number of strikeouts. Cobb struck out 34 times. 1if 1l 4 9 1 b hv 4, 'S - (1ot e~ o Aa-vfia—-s-a«v-a—v~a»vv-fif ——— o s i OTCH, RETIRED HEAVYWEIGHT WRESTLING ACHAMPION DIES OF - URAEMIC A POISONING—AMERICAN LEAGUE S TATISTICS SHOW-TY BB AGAIN LEADER IN ‘BATTING—-SPORT WRITERS TRYING TO HURRY BILLY KOPF TO WAR—Y. M.C.A. BASKETB ALL QUINTET WINS AGAIN RANKS |‘ When a Feller Needs a Friend __-_;____;_EY_EE_W fi"";" ls nflWNEn FOR FINAL FALL - i Retired Wmfling Champion Smfin " cumbs to Uraemic Polsomng Des Maines, Ia., Dec. 17.—Frank A. Gotch, retired champion heavywel wrestler of the world, died at 'm Yesterday at his home, Humboldt, Ja,: . of uraemic poisoning. He had béen {8 failing health for two years. Gotch was 41 years old. He wi born ‘on April 127, 1876, on a farmj three miles south of Humboldt. 3 He is survived by his widow, four-year-old son, Robert Goteh; brother, Fred Gotch; a sisters M; Charlie Kurth, of Humboldt, and mother, Mrs. Amelia Gotch, also #* resident of Humboldt. His wife and son were at his b side when death came. It is said the famous athlgte was conscious most up to the time of his death, d spite the rumors that have bnn circulation = duting the past months that he was irrational D-rl the \ime. The first intjmation that his was not as as it should be © to him in the summer of 1§16, wh he was making a tour of the count] with a well-known cirous as a. test see whether he should sign articles fi a match with Joe Stecher, of d Neb., who had wan the title Charlie Cutler, of Chicago. Gotdh dec!ared Cutler the American ¢ plon ‘upon his retirement. Exhibition of Skill in m Gotch, in the circus, wrestled Bob Manuon, Earl Caddock others only a short time Compelled b6 TéttiFn w’lfi“m cause of stomtach ‘trouble) ! regained his health fully, altho B later rejoined the % compelled to leave aj v jured his ankles) ¢ % The discoveries the regarding his condif caused hl& to abando! ‘match with Steg] The following E:‘nhr no better and w Ark. He return but ually lost | ctober he wen Chi way to a Bouthern régert, ously ill in a Chicago L was removed to a haspital, ‘whe was kept until early in when “he' was hmlltm home. 8ince that time he leave his home only - times and then for only-short o Ten days ago he began to graw Made a T:rm. W Gotch made a forty; and he ‘invested his earnin farm lands. ) His' estdte. is estimated - at’ betw o $400,000, ‘all’ of which money made through m INDIVIDUALS—FIETEEN OR MORE GAMES. ‘wrestler. / Gotch won the Ameri¢ -205 | ship ' January' 27, 1904, -205 ) Jenkins after one of the r 1205 gt .203 -203 [ Gotch won :the first fall. tllln. 202 | awarded. the second afier -7_ -200 | fouled him repestedly hy. 4 .200 | strangle hold and by striking h&s 200 | peat Hsckemschmidt fis' O 0 o0 | Gotch won ‘the heavywelghit 13 3gm|unK championship bf" 1o qgh 1908 in Chicago by e 1 194 Rackenschmidt, the Ri 61 19| yno forfeited thé mbhter™# 40 192l hours and eight minutes: 17 192} cathusinsts called it-tHe gy . 48 191 | gpectacle of history. - Gotchlout 44 .190 | houngs before nis oppenent 16 190§ regied. Gotch's tofgud was'id A 15 .190 | gwollen that it was & weelc'd 3 190 | couja speak plainty. 8 188 Gotch wrestled with ;-lu:lumc 18 .185 |.jn the White Sox ball pakk hers a 1 ‘fifi in 1911, winning i short-efder> b5 8 the ‘match, it was ‘m: 14 .180 | Gotch’s opponent had m 10 .179 | contest with a badly spraiped 23 . .179 | and, although he had 14 .179 | first, it prevented his 21 .178 | than a feeble resistance to .178 | pion. .176 | were $87,000, the most money 174 | taken in a wrennngxw.“ L 178 It was in his mat h .172 | schmidt that Gotch .167 | perfected the toe hoid again: .167 | no man was ever able -to 1167 | hold caused great anguish ‘to .167 | ponent and soon made the W N .164 | them weak. i 15 .159 The only man who ever pul 14 .159 | threw, the champion was ,\rd 8 .156 | of Marshfield, Wis., who, ii 30 .154 | New Orleans, took the flm‘ 10. .154 | Gotch's second and tl 6 152 | fall match. Gotch later won 3 ' .148 | Beell with little effort. 10 '.145 Woeighed 315 Pounds. .. .. 7143 The champion’s wrestling 4 137 | gag 215 pounds, but in)the past 11 .137 | he had lost weight until he 3 34 .134 | gcales at less than 130 PO 19 130 | entered a hospital hers'a ! 27 .127 | and was treated for 24 .126 | but gnined rapidly and was sogn dise 11 .119 | charged as cured. 3 119 | T'Gotoh and James Jeftries, férmede 15 .117 | heavyweight boxing chas 17 114 | intimate friends and bmmflu 27 .111 | lost his belt to Jack Johnson, the twa 10 .105 | champions taured the, Country, B 5 .102 | ing with great receptions 48 .098 18 .090 Games AB. B. H. TB. 154 5094 639 1317 1753 164 5112 529 1296 1644 156 5062 656 1280 1649 157 5049 555 1240 1806 166 4998 584 1226 1612 r 5093 810 1249 1692 ‘ashington .. 157 5143 543 1240 1563 173 ‘ew York .... 5140 524 1224 1532 173 IND'IVIDVALS—-FH’TEEN OR MOBE GAM!S RS AB,..R. H...TR. '8B. BB SH.. 8B. BB. 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Heilman, Detroit..... \. Strunk, Phlladelphia. ‘Barl E. Smith, St. Louis. A. Russell, Chicago.. . Haley, Philadelphia . 'A. Gandil, Chicago .. H..Deberry, Cleveland .. @ Foster, Boston Ray Morgan, Washingtoh . “W. L. Gardner, Boston . H, Severaid, St.°Louts | Jas, Walsh, Boston A. Walters, New York 1. G. Nunamaker, New Y V. G. Rumler, St. Louis .... . Peckinpaugh, New York . Jamieson, Wash.-Phila. ‘Menoskey, Washington ... , /8. Caldwell, New York C. Hoblitzel, Boston .. . 'H. B. Hooper, Boston . ‘Wambsganss, Clevelan . Witt, Detroit .. ...« , Johnson, Washington . L. 'W. Witt, Philadelphia . €. W. Mays, Boston .. oo 5 - R B T TN o o Q P o aonm® ® s O. Stanage, Detroit........co0ueuene 99 297 / 19 61 14 T. L. Turner, Cleveland............- 69 150 [ 16 37 7 G. W. H!fler. Detroit = . 47 117 6 24 Charles A. Risberg, Chicago... o . 149 474 59 96 R. C. Johnson, Philadelphia . 35 59 3 12 H. Shanks, Washington....... o a8 azoe b ey Lee Magee, N. Y.—St. L.... . . . 87 285 28 57 L. J. Bush, Philadelphia... . . 37 .80 9 16 ¥. A. Griffin, Philadelphia. . . 18 25 4 5 { W. B. Wright, St. Louis. . 16 10 e 2 1'#. C. Malsel, New York....... 8l 0 G 45 I !H. C. Janvrin, Boston...... : 551 127 25 George Hale, St. Louis. . Ceereen 38 " 61 , 12 Jos. A. Dugan, Philadelphia... 43 134 26 Jos. H. Leonard, Washington........ 99 297 5% G. McBride, Washington...... o 141 5. - 27 E. Ainsmith, Washington.. 26 350 67 Jos. Evans, Cleveland............ 385 73 J. Henry, Washington. . ... 5 163 31 R. Shawkey, New YOrk.......... 34 16 R. P. Miller, Cleveland. Seias 9 21 4 0. Lamberth, ‘Cleveland ......... ) 32 6 L. Guisto, Cleveland. B 200 37 F. Falkenburg, Philadelphia. . . A 5 o 5 8. F. O'Neill, Cleveland. S 2 8 R. Fisher, New York.... S ieie 9 'C. H. Shorten, Boston.. A 4 9 20 | E. V. Cicotte, Chicago. . B 20 ' Ssamuel\ Crane, Washington. ......... 6 17 'J. A. Billings, Cleveland. . . . 23 | W. J. Shocker, New York...... 2 2 = 8 " G. Cunningham, Detroit.......... ; 6 | Wm ..Johnson, Philadelphia. ... : 19 §. Crawford, Detroit T. A. Rogers, St. Louis. : E. H. Love, New York. G. Shore, Boston.... H. Fennock, Boston.... +239 '3 p. Benz, Chicago....... . -238 0. C. Lawry, Phhadelphin. . Bates, Philadelphia.. S e s o o Cmu“ : -237 !N, A. Cullop, New York.,. H. Lebold, Chicago. 5 42 125 12 Y Frn Rk Bl Hugh High, New York.. S 12 11 123615 A" Shaw, Washington. e couter, wuslonsten: o AL . .285 . N. Coumbe, Cleveland . A. Mever, Phlhdelphh. : 5. 5 ! 895,30 T Cady. Bostovss “Goltins, Chicago."... 5 s a0 oA Do, thonsher EMIAGOIDRIE e : A 228 : . .234 | o\ 3. Schauer, Philadelphia.. E. & Youns, Detrolt... sl M1 18 ] -231 |'Milo ‘Allison, Cleveland..... B sehyy Hleveland, - i 3 n e . .231 A, Yelle, Detroit.......... G. A. Hartlett, St. Louis. Al 9 A G L Yol R e e g : S e 2 4 .230 | 3 Coveleskie, Cleveland. ... B N s s et e en .229 | . C. Danforth, Chicago. ... A Gchnbe, Cloveland 3 21 174 29 5 .228 | 'W. C. Noyes, Philadelphia. . R 1255604 .227 | George Dauss, Detroit B vetenkle, Detrokt 5o :: i ‘227 | William ‘Mitchell, Detroit. . B oot 7 2 129 14 3 .36 | J. Scott. Chicago ; B. Shotton, St. Louis. ... Pt a3t dmon Hkioadn: L ‘R. Grover, Philadelphia. 137 15 A224'E ol inatbasiz v Bl ot Chinses 5 18 .222 | R. Groom, St. Louis, ... | 3 16 .230 | E. S. Plank, St. Louls.. e W p 28 .218 | L C. Howard, Cleveland o e i 27 .217 | D. Davenport, St. Louis. g v A e -214 | C. Williams, Chicago. o b Yo 13 .212 | H. Leonard, Boston . Paimer, Philadeiphia. .- 12 ‘212 { Guy Morton, Cleveland. R, Wickinglo..... 19 2209 | O. Henricksen, Boston. . - Demum i 3 19 1209 | U, C. Faber, Chicago. .- iy ol : 64 ‘208 | B. Boland, Detroit T B . 7 ;208 | G. H. Dumont, Washington. . .. B s ; 23 1207 | Edw. Klepfer, Cleveland. .. R Aers, N orhasion: - o 14 .208 | C. Jones, Detroit. .. o o © = H'fl‘ vl .-,Ngm.mw LeALase RoNASS . a8 o . e Sinie ks e ! PO 00 v CO O 13 00 8 I3 O L3 D D LI 8 N1 e Nty et B o= Deomo P ARG 19 S 0 s S =i e [ -~ E. Hendryx, New Yor! » C. Jacobson, St. Louis . Johnison, St. Louis . ;?. Pratt, Bt. Louis. E. Myers, Phlmmml “/H. J. Ehmke, Detroit. . . C. W.|Walker, Boaton. . W. C. Pipp, New York. FElmer Smith, Wash.-Cleveland F. Gilhooley, New York E. Scott, Boston. J. P. Austin, St. 2 /Jobn Lavan, St. Louls. R. Bpencer, Detroit. . 'S o o B R T R R ® R e - R D U1 11 00 D 1O e 1) b s - o5 e ‘D. Thomas, Boston..... M ONNNREARD DRI N R - 15 19 & 1o ¢ - A ST e i R TN 03k 03 0 RO L N1 0 = 05 €3 00 o 19 O - ™o o e a2 O 2 i i 00 =1 D1 1 5 Al O G0 N1 =1 D1 O a1 O e 1 a1 s 0 OV B b o MR Dottt - - Dl S0 AT 09 B LS Oy ) a1 e 19 60 13 [ R P e R =P S~ ® oo e 00 e P L DD 23 .087 14 .086 4 .083 33 .058 19 056 28 .035 22 .082 s ' .000 W DA o W R i3 ot g e cres T -