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-jpr B-rr- Schulte has a much heavier batting average on the year than Chappell, but the latter was away to a poor start and is just beginning to come. In the last threeweeks he has hit on a par with the Cub. Schulte has the edge on fielding and excels in the baserunning department. In center there is no question of Cub superiority. In a word, T. Leach has the class and is Bodie's peer at every angle of the game. There is not a finer fielder in the business than Little Tom. He will get baljs that Bodie can't come close to. He is batting about 25 points ahead of the fence buster and can run bases in a way to make Ping look like a cigar store Indian. Leach is the brighter man in baseball lore. Right field offers a closer fight than any of the outpost positions, Collins and Wilbur Good contending for the honors. Shano is not batting up to his standards this season, clouting for the lowly mark of .237. Good is even lower than this, but the test is . not fair, as the Cub has played hi few games. He was used principally ' as a pinch hitter early in the season, and did not get enough work'to per- " feet his eye. Collins should outbat Good, though he will have trouble , with the curve ball pitching of Cheney and Humphries, especially the latter. There is little to choose between them as fielders and they are about a match on the bases. - For utility men Evers has Wil - liams, and Callahan will rely on Jack Fournier. Both are clouters and li , able to break up a game at any time. If they are not played in the field, they certainly will be used as pinch hitters. At present Fournier is the r better ballplayer of the two. ; ' Between the strength of the. Giant e and Mack outfields there is even less I difference than Gubs and Sox. What McGraw's men lack in some depart ments they make up in others, r Burns and CTdring are rivals in left, , amLchoosing the better man is prac-iigaUy-imposslble The Mackmaa has a shade for batting honors, but Burns is hitting .275, no mean percentage. He is a better baserunner than the Rube, and one of the best fielding outer sentinels developed in the last couple of seasons. He captures all kinds of flies, and has a crack whip, preventing runners advancing very far on base hits. On their present form one man is as good as the other. Snodgrass will be McGraw's center fielder, but Mack is undecided on that spot. He has Walsh, Strunk and Daley, anyone of whom is a good man. Snodgrass is not a wonderful fielder, he often misjudges fly balls and frequently plays grounders poor ly, allowing an extra base. He is a batting enigma. For a couple of weeks lie is helpless before ahy kin$ in pivvumg. wuuout warning ne switches and clouts the same brand of pitching to all corners of the lot. -Hfs showing in the world's series is mighlty uncertain. Walsh or Strunk will probably do the center fielding for Connie. Jimmy is on a batting spree, and a hang over may not overtake him before Oct. 7. Strunk is also a stout wallop er, one of the fastest men in the game and a'star fielder. He has been with the Athletics for several sea sons, though a youngster. He under stands the Mack system of play per fectly. Right field is about as well taken care of a any manager :ould wish. Red Murray of the Giants is 'one of the game's bright spots, a veteran and up to all the tricks of the trade. Eddie Murphy is seeing his first year in the big tent, but is not overshad owed by any means when placed beside Murray. jo Murphy is the better batter and i baserunner, though the margin of superiority is almight small. Murray is the extra-base hitter of the two, and is more liable to drive a man in from first base than his competitor. In fielding it is all Murray. Red is as. good -as there is in, either league." His, arm is more: deadly, than that of