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Show MANY PLAYERS G8 Forty-one Have Made Good in Big Leagues From West Graduates from the "Western leaguo made a bi showing in the majors during dur-ing the 1914 season, according to fig-lures fig-lures compiled by tho game 7s followers in Wichita. Forty-one vho have gone up Tvithin the last six rears from that league and who participated in enough jzames to get into the official bat-tins i average?, batted for a wand total of .241. This record looKt better and stronger when it is considered that seventeen, sev-enteen, or almost half of the forty-one, are pitchers who are weak hitters. This makes the infielders and outfielders show up well. The Western league representatives with the Federals 'hit for an arerape of .269, while those with the Nationals made a mark of .'245, and those with the Americans .215. Eiht of tho sixteen ex-Western leaguers with tbe Americans are pitclers. tiro of the sixteen six-teen being: with the White toi. Dalton a Batsman. The top man in the entire batting list among the Western Kaiie praduates is DaIton; formcrlr with I)es Moines and now with Brooklyn, recently reported to have jumped to the Feds, who has an average of .319 for the 1914 season. KeDworthy, who went up from the Denver Den-ver club, " now with the Jansas City Feds, batted .316. Roth of the Whit's Sox, 'formerly with St. Joseph, hit .295. These three graduates are the leading hitters in the three leagues. The leading b?.se-tealer of the former for-mer Western leairuers is Doian of the St. Louis Cardinals, formerly with Denver. Den-ver. He swiped forty-two" bases, followed fol-lowed by Keuwortb y.'who stole forty-one. forty-one. Snot ton with forty. Williams wiih thirty-fire. Giimore with twentv-eiht, Zwilin with twenty-three. Kelly with twenty-one and Xieaoff with twenty. In number of hits. Zwuiir" of the'Chi-feds the'Chi-feds leads with 123, while Kcnwonhy is second with 122. Of the forty-one graduate", eleven are outfielders, seventeen sev-enteen pitchers, ten infielders and three an catchers, distributed as follows: Chicago White Sox, five: St. Lot; is Americans, Detroit Americans, Pjt-burff Pjt-burff Nationals and Kansas City ted-era?. ted-era?. four each; Brooklyn Nationals, Cincinnati National? and Brooklyn Federal?, Fed-eral?, three cah; Cleveland America::?, I wo each; Boston Americans, St. Lc:::s Nationals and Pittsburg Federals, one each. St. Joe Leads. Tho greatest number of cradr.ats have gone no from the St. Joseph club, where Jack Holland is he manager, but Denver and O rr. a h a are close seconds. The former Wercrn leaguers, participating partici-pating in more than tencamcs in the big show, have gone up from the following fol-lowing clubs : St. Joseph Kollv, Cmtchcr, McAu'ev. ; Zwilling, Wcsterill, Adams. Roth and Boehler. Denver Leonard. Wolfgang. Ker worrhv, Gilmoro, Harris, I la coin an and Dolan! ' w Omaha Hall. Agnew, Williams, Shot-ton, Shot-ton, Austin. Corrideu and Nieboff. Lincoln Hagorman, Baker, (iagnier, Hendrix aud InTgliammer, Pes Moines J.'" Leonard, Dalton. Faber Fa-ber and Bens. Wichita Atchison. Brennan, Roberts and Borger. Sioux " Citv Mvcrs. O Toole and Wood. Topeka Rvnold? and Cocrehan. Pueblo Miller. The Western leaguer? in the National Na-tional league were at bat ;10 lo times, made 00 runs and 7 4 S hits, for an ave-rago of .'24ii; in the American lei.guc. t bnt 7iK time? for C1 runs and 0'2 hits, an average of .21.", aiul in ue Federal, ar lat 2ss.i times for oSo rm? and 77,3 hits, an arerage of Tbe Western li'aguers, therefore., who ar- now in the big r-how were at ( at 572- times during tho past season for I'Kv' rna aud 212." hits, an avoiago of |