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Show Famous Slugger of Detroit Tigers to Retire From Big v jH Leagues. JH NEW YORK, Sept 8. Sam Craw- ford, the famous slugger of the Dc- j troit Tigers, probably will retiro from Il the big leagues at the. finish of the . jH present season. He may wind up his career on the diamond as a manager. iH Crawford will go out with one rec- ord to which he can always point , IH with pride. In eleven different years lll ho has batted better than .300. Only IH fifteen other batsmen of all tho thou- lH sands of all time have equaled this J IH mark. Crawford was four years with ' '1 Cincinnati and had an average of .311; S i'll fourteen years with Detroit for a grand mark of .309, and for the eighteen years has an averago of .310. These figures do not include the present sea- When you stop to think of tue num- IH ber of men who have played major ktlH league ball and of the large number 7. P1 of regular hitters the sport has pro- - yv r , duced, Crawford's record is one, as ' i said, worthy of special recognition. In compiling tho;Jope consideration is given to any year in which any man played in tho National, American, f Players' or Federal leagues, or in the f-jiH old American or Union association. 'iH These are tho men who have batted .300 for more than ten seasons: Anson 20 Van Haltren ..12 Wagner 17 Hamilton 12 LaJoie 16 Dolahanty ....12 Brouthers 16 Duffy u Keeler 14 Burke Y.'ll O'Rourko 13 Kelley n J Ryan 13 Crawford ... 11 1 Beckley 13 Cobb n IH Excepting Cobb, all of these men jH made all or part of their records , without the handicap of the foul I IH strike rule. Cobb never played before the foul strike came In and Sam for IH only a few years. All of the few .400 batsmen of all time, excepting Cobb and Joe Jackson, were hitting without the foul strike rule when they did so. And of the thirty-three marks of .400 history, fifteen were made in 1887, IH whoso records generally are given lit- I ' tie recognition, because four strikes ' were allowed and bases on balls were V!M marked up as base hits. , 4 ,r, 7 ' tLs tnrougn, -v will add further to break up tho JH Twenty Years club of famous players JH Lajoio is out. Wallace has been and JH now Is back merely as a sub, and jH Wagner is nearly through. Sam hasn't jH played twenty years, but will If he comes back next season. Ho will be jH 13 years old next spring, so practical- jl ly half of his life has been spent on ! Jl the diamond. He is one of the few i men who ever worked on three clubs f in ono year Chatham, Grand Rapids 1 and Cincinnati with no release in any jH case and a promotion In each move. t Most of the men who havo hit .300 l as often as Crawford were through JH or nearly so, before ho started. Some I he never saw on the diamond. Only Cobb has como into tho game since Sam began his maclng career. Which j seems to show that the claim that bat- . Vil ting Is being made more difficult each " Ul season is a true one. r I NATIONAL. H Chicago at Pittsburgh, cloudy, 3 ' . m. H Brooklyn at New York, rain 3 m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, cloudy - 3 I P. m. Philadelphia at Boston (two), rain ' first 1:30 p. m. ' -t AMERICAN. Cleveland at Chicago, cloudy, 3 j Now York at Washington (two), rain, first 1:45 p. m. Detroit at St. Louis, cloudy, 3 p. m. if Boston at Philadelphia, rain, 3 p.m. k |