Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-24 | Page 8 | Bobby Beacher's Ambition after Base Theft Record

I I Bobby Bescher's Ambition I i I 4 6 A l 4 i t tAfter I After Base Theft Record I L A r z 1 1 4 r ji ci 41 t 34 J 4 I 4 4 I I 4 s 5 I Bb Bobby Y Bescher er r Is lal 1st to Tile The 1 Cincinnati Feb Fei 23 Bobby Bobby B H outfielder of ot the lie 1 d s. s n nurses one J great eat ambition to wit He Ho wants ants to break bleak tho thu ho stealing base record in Jn the Xa National l league ague Ever Eer since he stole bases es In Jam games In thu the season on of or 1908 Bescher lies has 11 a trouble maker tom for catchers by hy ba bases es In this respect 1 hit ie lia has proved a i regular hl highway hway robber and for tor four years cars now has han led t-o t league In base stealing If Ie he leads lead again this year vear he will break all precedents pre lire for never neVel In the National lor organization or has a n single in le player J led th league In base stealing for tOl five suc seasons reasons He lie weighs clo e to 00 oo pounds but apparently his weight I Is not a burden to him That has tho the art At of or base stealing alln down to 0 a ran fine point iJ is shown t b b hI his record of or last hut A year ear ar Only ten times UmeR during th the entire season did lid he lit fall fail In an att attempted st steal al As ho pilfered pil imil fen d sixty seven socks hl his run base ning calculated calculate 11 In the tIle average g-c. g newn nett ne wn way would be figures O-figures figures mJ h I 1 than bait those timos ma made e li h bv Cylde Milan Milam I of or Washington ton the American merIcan l leagues league's 5 champion base bage runner Thrice last Jast year cal Bescher stole lole three thre i bA bases es In games gaines the backstops lie he victimized vie vic ed being Miller Myers an l Kelly The Red ned robber scattered his sixty sixty- seven n steals through two fIfty t games ganiea making one st steal al in each of ot forty con tests two In nine and three In iii n three The catchers whom headier Bescher found the easiest to ste steal 1 bA bases S on were those employed by hy St. St Louis while the back back- stops whom wom he lie found it mU must most t difficult L to victimize were ere New ew York