Show I i SWEENEY SEENEY WAS ViAS BEST THROWING CATCHER Stanage a Close Second While hil Carisch Had the Best Average The seven be t throwing vinS' catchers Inthe In Inthe Inthe the American league last season were Carisch and ONeill O'Neill of ot Cleveland Jand E Egan an anand and Thomas Thoma of ot Philadelphia Henr Henry Honry or of Washington Schalk of ot Cleveland Cle and Sweeney ot of New York these men causIng caus caus- ac Ing InE demon like 1 Milan Mi Mi- lan Inn Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker to i a twice before they set out to steal C Carisch who joined the Naps late In Inthe tho the season had the highest average of or ormen men thrown out per gamo game In to steal while Sweeney who ws was wasa a a. holdout when the campaign started nevertheless entered the Hilltop camp In time to flag InK more would-be would base base- I stealers than an any other In the American league He lie cut down IH men who attempted d the act Stanage of Detroit ran rana a 0 close cloe second to Sween Sweeney e In the th Humber number Hum num ber her of athletes he killed or off who wore were out to filch bases nailing Sweeney's Sweeneys Swee ney's record however looks much su sui superior su- su to Stanage's when It Is considered considered consid consid- ered that the New Yorker played In games to the Tho The poorest throwing catcher ac- ac according cording to carefully compiled d records was Wt Pad Paddy Livingston of or Cleveland He le stopped only nine nino thefts In nineteen contests t tests an au average c of ot 0 4 47 tho the game gume poor peg hers were u lOcher 01 ot De- De De ye troit Williams of or New lew York and Easterly Ens- Ens I tony terly who h held ld situations with Doth noth Cleveland and Chicago o. o The Tho greatest number of or men thrown I out trying to steal In a major league Is according to statisticians seven se Charles Duke Duko Farrell got this numb number number num num- b ber r of victims when he hn was WM catching for the thea Washington a ton Nationals in the tile late nineties Pan Farrell PancH ell will help coach co the Boston Hed Sox pitchers this year I Another veteran now drawing salary from an nn American league club who established es established s es- a major league record of nipping nipping nip nip- ping pins Is Jim of the Tiers When he hc was with Brooklyn In 1900 19 ho sa saved a game for the Su- Su b by picking men off ft the bases In one Inning This feat teat never SU-I SU ha has hu since bo been n duplicated I I If Ir f Tris Speaker who was voted b by the Chalmers Jur Jury of newspaper iner pr e nr I the best besl player In the Am American le league gue was wa asked his hla opinion as to which club possessed the best beet staff start of or throwers In the Junior juMior organization In 1912 he would probably reply New ew York Th The reason for such an ans answer ver might be found In the running account of the game gamo played between the Highlanders and the Speed Boys Bos on June 22 2 when Speaker who thrice started to steal WitS was cut down each time twice time twice by Hy Sweeney and once by bv Sterrett Another player who ho was hal halted ted thrice when he tie tried to pilfer was Martin l of New c York The Thc m man n who stopped him was Henry Honry of Washington It was the cle clever r runners who were thrown out Thus Ty ry Cobb was cut down thirty four times Cl Clyde de Milan Ulan thirty one times TrIs Speaker twenty eight times Harry Lord three thirty times and Eddie Collins two twenty-two times V |