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Show Sisler Deserving of Post On Baseball's Honor Role As Peer of First Sackers By JOE WILLIAMS Special to. The Telegram NEW YORK, Jan. 25 Up to now eight candidate have been 'definitely accepted for baseball' hall of fame. These eight and others to be accepted later are to be immortalized in bronze at Coopers town, N. Y, scene of the first baseball game ever played. etluir faat man; ha hit 27 triple and anly lit konw runs. Sailer's record for triple waa better thaa Cobb's when yoa figure It ant, because Cobb played la MM men games thaa Sisler. Though not so vociferously acclaimed ac-claimed by the customers, the triple is probably a rarer batting exploit than the home run. Ruth hit 714. home runs and only 1M triple In the 2502 games he played ia the majors. This, however, may not be significant, because Ruth was be- law paid art how ran od a waa generally firing for the fence. But w were talking about the stars who have as yet failed to qualify for the hall of fame. How about Roger BresnahanT The eld Giant catcher received a grand total to-tal of 43 votea in the recent roundupand round-upand to repeat a player must receive 1S1 to crash the gat. How many catchers from 100 on would you nam above Bresnahanf . These eight are Ty Cobb, Babe' Ruth, " Christy Mathewaon, Hans Wagner, Walter Johnson. Trie Speaker, Nap Lajol and Cy Toung. And certainly there can be no quarrel quar-rel with these selection. They are all standout. And sine the balloting bal-loting for this year was restricted to players active sines 100 (but not active now) their glorification become all the mora logical Te be included la the Ceeper-towa Ceeper-towa shrine a player muet ra-reive ra-reive a snialmam of Ul vote. Tba aaly elckt of the vast army at alaja- waa -ha played-Uf-gams alae the tura at the eea-tary eea-tary war able ta eaounaad the aseeaaary ejuaUfylng total I same thing af a shack. What about, aay, George StalerT Or Hal Chase. If your prefer? Personally Per-sonally I feel Sisler was the greater first baseman of the two which Is the same as saying ha was the greatest of all time. Ha may have been a few faint degrees below Chase a a defensive man, but In all other department of play be waa superior. Star Baekstope Who were the star catcher th period developed? Johnny Kllng, Jimmy Archer, Ray Schalk, Btev O'Neill. Bob OTsrrell, Gabby Hart-nett, Hart-nett, Mickey Cochrane and a few others. Bresnahan didn't have te take his mask off to any ef these. Beside, he was faat and a crafty hitter. McGraw used to (tick him in a lead-off man. so you can be aura he wasn't a Shanty Hog an. Grovsr Alexander polled more than 100 votes, but waa still hy a considerable number. Old Alex, who was fatsd to com t such a miserable status In hi twilight hour, was on of th great pitcher pitch-er of eur time. Eddie Collin, strictly an American leaguer, think he was just about th great-eat great-eat which must be considered high prals from a disinterested witness. Better Batamaa He waa a better hitter, a better baa runner and a batter team player, play-er, beildea which h was better thaa a green hand around first baa. Ha bad a life time average of Mi for more than 2000 games, and he swung against both th turtle tur-tle and the rabbit ball. Ha wed to steal third baaa more often than anybody In either league, and thus waa mora often In a position to score on a fly ball. Another thing, Sisler had a gift for hitting triples. For some reason rea-son It seem to be more difficult to bit triple than bom runs. On second thought this I not hard to understand. Bhort fence make horn run bitting relatively almple. A triple must of necessity be hit Inside th park. This puts it up to th player's speed to a large extent. ex-tent. Malar had epeed and he mad th meat ef It la rounding the bare. He hit St triples a aalaat IIS ham ran. Cobb waa an- |