Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1923-05-18 | Page 6 | Bentley Valuable at First or as Pitcher

Bentley Valuable at First or as Pitcher Jack Bcntley's batting and pitching averages for last season make it a dillicult matter for a manager to decide de-cide whether the big fellow is more valuable as a first baseman nnd hitting them hard and often or as a pitching pitch-ing star. Tills has been quite a puzzle to Jack Dunn, manager of the Baltimore Balti-more M'iolcs. P.entley tool; part In l.'i.'t games last season, during most of which he acted us tirt base guardian. He was 111;) times at bat. scred l"!l runs, made LMii hits (of which "11 were home runs), for a .HI'.1 average. He stole six bases and ranked third in the iinollioia! batting bat-ting league averages compiled for the International league. As a pitcher he turned in R! victories and suffered only one defeat: Rochester administered lids lone defeat. In 1 : ' 1 Bentley ranked third in the International league averages with percentage of ..",71.