Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-26 | Page 6 | Carey Steals More Bases than Entire Philly Team

Carey Steals More Bases Than Entire Philly Team ti V hp 9 I I 8 43 4 I x- x C 7 la r V eNAX e NAX 1 To steal one fifty one fifty bases ses during a j I I playing season is considered more than an ordinary feat eJ especially In these I days when swiping sacks i is is looked upon as more or less Jess ess of ot a lost art But to purloin one fifty cushions out of ot fit three fifty three attempts is a most remarkable re- re remarkable accomplishment accomplishment- I I And that's just what Max ax Scoops sterling ou outfielder of the Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg National league dub club did in the I I 1922 pennant chase on iut ut two I occasions was the as he fleet tooted fleet footed Pirate ripped in trying to advance a base by bythe bythe bythe the thievery very route ti route Carey Incidentally was the champion champion champion cham cham- pion pilferer of ot the old circuit leading his nearest rival Frank Franl of ol the I Giants Glants by twenty st steals as t the e Fordham flash grabbing thirty-one thirty sacks out of 1 forty-eight forty tries Oddly enough the I positions of the two setters pace-setters were I Just the reverse of those of 1921 Carey Catey with thirty-seven thirty burglaries running second second-n in n that campaign to Frisch who piled pp ip forty lorty I Not only did Carey top the field buthe but buthe buthe he stole more bases than the entire Philadelphia team put together The best Philadelphia could do In In- Inthis this department de department department de- de was forty eight which theftS thefts theUs which placed them at the bottom ot of the heap in in both leagues leagues' The most caught stealer was Charlie Charlie Charlie Char- Char lie Holocher of ot the Cubs who was I nabbed on twenty nine out of ol forty forty- eight Duncan Cincinnati was right behind being tossed out but ut on twenty eight occasions r rIn I In the American league G orge Sis Sis- ler of the Browns showed the way with one fifty-one steals steal the same same same as aCrey hung up Sis el I though was was' retired on on nineteen teen attempted swipes as was his Oils teammate Kenneth Williams run- run I who grabbed thirty-seven thirty hassocks has has- socks A notable fea feature ture in the stealing base-stealing end of ot play was play was the low mark compiled by Ty Cobb who a few lew s seasons ago was considered the greatest In the game In 1922 Cobb stole but nine sacks in two twenty-two efforts Surely a alar far different different dif dif dif- ferent record than the Georgian used to boast especially when compared to that of or 1915 when he snagged ninety ninety- eight bases the games game's modern high mark