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Show PAIR OF WRECKING CREWS BATTLING ATTACK OF WHITE SOX AND YANKS REVOLVES ABOUT THE CLEAN-UP SWATTERS ON BATTING ORDER , . BY DEAN SNY DER, E ery ball club has Its wrecking crew. They're the gentc on the batting or-! der who put the wallop Into tb offensive of-fensive attack against opposing pinners. pinn-ers. Eneh manager shuffles his hitting strength In a methodical way The leadoff man must have the ability to wait 'em out and make an opposing moundsman plteh to him. Also he must hnc the happy faculty of getting on the base by every possible possi-ble means, from walking to getting hit The second man on the hatting list is picked for the job because he can lay down a bunt. It s his duty to be a perfect sacrifices Then come the wreckers. The third, fourth and fifth positions of the batting bat-ting order Is where you'll find the slammers. The,- are the boys who can I smaek the ripple with or without men I on the bases. That's the system on 1 which a manager arranges his bat-j ting strength III .)- 1. ' . On most clu'os a child could pick the Clean-up gang. The baiting averages aver-ages spell their names out plainer than a waegea board. Who would you select for the White Sox but the high-speed blngers. Th r I Joe Jackson, hitting around .384: Eddie Collins, .365. and "Happ" Feiectl with his 331 They're the wrecking crew for Kid Gleiison In the order named. Ml RJ1 HI RS !" '. ' The Yankes don't call their walloping wallop-ing three tlve "train wreckers." They're known as the lamous "Murderers' Row." Babe Ruth, of course, leads this part of the Yankee attack. He's cutting cut-ting a swath around .375 with his homo-run bludgeon. Next come Del Pratt and Bob Meusel Pratt is following fol-lowing Bambino Just now since fsob's layoff of a month Meusel Is setting a .346 clip, with Pratt rattling along with 307. PJER4 E STAGES TELL. This sextet of batters would stand out on any ball club. They don't always deliver every- d iv, but the percentages per-centages will break bout 73 to 25 In their favor for a series. Ruth leads all major league players In making runs. Rube s rnosur eves have earned this honor for him. His four-ply knocks don't leave him stranded or the bases. All he has to do is to trot around. Si the wrecking tcw or the Sox and the "Murderers' Row" or th' Yanks are all stars of the hitting con- . stellatlon. On them revolves the power of their bnttlng machines. Olenson and Huggins are depending 011 their respective re-spective wallopers to sock their clubs Into a pennant. When a pitcher Ik facing this particular par-ticular outfit of hitters he puts all he's got on the ball and trusts to fate to get by them The punch is the thing whether it Is In a four-ounce glove or the bnt-ting bnt-ting order. |