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Show Veteran Guardians of First By IRWIN M. HOWE. Players Evenly Matched T will be mighty Interesting to watch I the two first basemen In the coming world's scries. They are alike In bo many things ability Included that the fans will delight to see how they perform in the championship games. Those veterans Daubert and Gandil will attract a large share of the attention of the fans. A comparison of these two at this time is doubly Interesting, because, in addition to weighing them on their accomplishments accomplish-ments in their many years In baseball, we can observe what they did under world's series fire, because both of them have ben in games for the title. In order to find out what It is reasonable reasona-ble to expect of them in the games next month, when Gandil faces Keuiher. Eller and the other sterling Cincinnati pitchers and Daubert undertakes to solve the mysteries mys-teries of Clcotte, Williams and the rest, a comparison should be made of their hitting power. Offensive Strength Compared. In order to get conditions as nearly as possible similar to the world's series conditions, con-ditions, let us find out what Gandil has done 1 r.:s season against five selected American h-ague pitchers who re&emhle most closely the pitchers of Pat Moran and what Daubert. as done against five National league pitchers selected for their resemblance to Kid Gleason'a slab-m slab-m l n . Adams. Cadore and Barnes (representing (represent-ing the varied styles of Cicotte). Vaughn (representing Kerr) and Cooper (representing (repre-senting Wiihams) are the National league I key pitchers. The key pitchers of the American league are Thormahlen and Leonard (representing Heather and al-leet, al-leet, Shawkey (representing Ring), Bagby (representing Fisher and Luue) and Sot horon (representing Eller). Daubert baa been In four games acalnst Adams this season, four against Barnes and five agaln.it Cadore. Agalnft Adams he has been at bat fourteen times and has scored one run with four hits. Two of the hits were two-baggers. Against I Darnea he has been at bat thirteen times and has male rt vc singles, good for one run. He bns made three hits and one run off Cadore In fourteen times at bat. Daubert Strong Against Cicotte. Therefore, against the three pitchers corresponding to Cicotte. Daubert has hit having twelve hits in forty-one times I nt bit;. r 'an Nert la.1 I ec-n at bat twelve times atcitinst Copper, ;tir.g two hits ar.d a run. He his m.tde mx hits off Vauchn in sixteen times at bat, scoring one run. An averaic of .l'1 twenty-eu-.-.t limes at tat against two ptar southpaws. Criir:dil's record aca:nst Pacby fhows that he has been at ha, eleven tims a.iM'.ft him thi j-- 'n and has scored r.c run, but he has h:t !n every one of the four games, netting a tutal of five, He h is app- .tre.i in only one pame a-raint Iinard. pelting a three-bagger in three tin-.'-s r: t .1 1 . i r..i 'en at bat poven times aca!rft Th,rinai.b,:i, has scored po runs aud made two hits, one a double. In three times nt bat acainst Shawkev, C.At-.dil l.aa made two hits and a run. He , h.is been In tlv g Arr, fa aff.tmst Sthoron. Rett!) ir four hits in fourteen times at i ha, u:. d scorlni; no rur.. TbM p'jMi.'nnry of tbt-ir records against th- kv pitchers is as follows- P'sver-Tum AH. R. I. . v T '.fit.erl. r"n -innati 65 .S : .:-f. U.i'i'i.l. ('hlcrtiro 5j 4 14 T..:i apparent advantac of Gandil is offset by other factors which do not appear ap-pear in these Azures. It is well to note that Daubert is the leading eacrlhce hitter of - the National league, leading with thirtv-hve. Also note these figures of tne averages of the two players In the games tiiis season: Daubert (Cincinnati) Game-", U- : at bat, 4S3; runs, 70; hits, 130; total bas'-s, 175; Eacrifice hits, 35; etoien bases. 11; average, .22; pu touts, 1-" ; assists, G4 ; errors, 15; percentage, .53. Gandil (I'hicatroj Games, 53; at lat, 3741; runs. 50; hits, 115; total bases. 15J; sacriii'-e hits. 1 2 ; stolen bases. II; average, aver-age, .306; putouts. 'j30; assists, 51; errors, 2 ; percentage, .K'V Daubert has alwavs be-n first or se'-ond in the batting ord-r in his major jeag-je career, chietly berause of his ability to bunt. In his earlier days he was fa-t'-r thnn greased lightning. And be is faM right now, after a long service on tne ball field. He is faster than Gandil today. In the world's series of ' 1 5 . Dau-rt. a !"ft-handed hitter, faced two riru-handVrs. riru-handVrs. Shre and Mays, In t-.e nrst game and did not get a hit. In the second sec-ond game he cot no hits off Rutn. a soutn-Pw soutn-Pw He got three hits off Mays and Foster in the third game. M- rk!e p.ayd first in tne fourth game and S-nore let Dauber: down without a hit in tr.e fi.rh. He was at bat seventeen tim-s m this series, making thre hits for five t-a.s. He struck out three time?. waUd twice, had a perfect fielding average ar.d oat '.ed .176. Gandil Likes Southpaws. Gandil is a rlcht-handed hitter. ntre first game of the world's series of 13. r.e was at bat three tims against Sa;.ee. a southpaw, end got a hit. The r.ext cay he got a hit off Schupn. anotnr so':tn-paw. so':tn-paw. Benton let him down in the third same without a hit and three times a. bat. He hit S-hupp once Jn four ti meat me-at bat in the fourth came. Off hal.-e a. .a Perritt in the f.fth game he got a r.it an-a an-a run in five times at bat. H got twu hits and batted .5rf airair.st Benton in the final came. In the series he was a bat tenv-threo time?. F-ord a nr. r.ni got six hits (one a double for a raiv.r.L' average of :T3. He fanned twice ar... gtole one hase. He made Fixty-F.-. en pu'-outs, four assists a::d one error -or a ne'. iimr averace cf 4 A remarkable s.milar.-y of Oar.o:: nr.. PiubTt Is their ef? -t or. th tenrr.s (hJ ylav for. Gandil made the Sx. He i-o.n.-d th' te3-n when it had to :".rct :-a?rr.rtn and l-ad no: had one f'n-'e they let mm eo in K'VX t is a ;-I.-.yr ar7-re..-'.a'.- . ..p-:a::v bv ral' r'-yrs r rr.-'- es. h;'. saved th" irv'.d-r tro-jb'.e ,:-re ar.d aeain. T!" is s-ki:!;:! to a d-zre- in ftkinc- '-are of f".? and wicked p-rs t..at drop ack into r'.s-.i held. He ;s tne i.est m:t:i to threw to m h.s K-ac-:. He p. ays always with his head :p ar.d is fu.l cf pop ar. 1 oath. Daubert Makes Reds. This i a '.! in a rr.ea? :re tr::e cf r.i':-bert. r.i':-bert. H. tf-n. .'.-'ir.'-d t:- P.eds '"er-thev '"er-thev wre m:n'.:s a :.r : sacker. 1 -' hf i d:?poed -f o':'.:' z-'. ar.d l.ai tr;- I Cj.nce with ir.d.r-r-'Ti: success. Ar;o.her thlr. to r--merr.: r ar-v:! Ga-is Ga-is h:s a:ll'.y ; .a e h.s ..'s Ai-th'turh Ai-th'turh he 1 a r.c ' -bar '.e i bat:-r ar.J hi:s fr'--;ur::v to f-".d ar.d ft c-n- tr, r.e i-.'it, en ; ;:.-.-.:s a h : i.'o r.c'r.t. H- is v.st as '.:k''.y to r- : e i-u t e pi. 1.1 a -d ht- 1 ; 1 :.- r'i. r.: -i .t s he 1 10 c;:ch c-r.e av : -d 1: "he o':-r w.t A " a res : t. he Is hard 'o piir'n to. i a'1 usi-al.v hi.5 l-io rht fV.1. |