Evening journal., 1911-10-30
PILL WAS
HIT HARD
All Recent Records Exceeded
by Performance With Cork
Center Ball
TWO GAMES GO THE
TWENTY HIT LIMIT

Standing out boldly among the sta
tistical features of the American
Leagues season is the remarkable
change produced by the introduction
of the cork center ball this year.
thereby increasing the batting TO a
considerable degree. Some idea OF
that increase can be gained from the
fact that in 1910 there we're only
thirty-nine games in the young league
I'm which one team made fifteen or
more hits. This year there were
ninety such games, or more than twice
as many.
There was no slugging match that
equaled the batting record of 1910
twenty-three hits made off Falkenberg
by the Athletics. This year the lea
gue's high water mark in hits was
twenty-one That mark was reached
twice. both times by tail end teams
and both times against Detroit pitch
ers. Washington made twenty-one
hits off Lahtte, and st. Louis made
twenty-one hits off Laftte. The
American Leagues slugging record is
twenty-five hits in one game, made
in 1908 by Detroit.
But in heavy batting as a whole
1911 exceeds all recent records. Four
times this year twenty hits have been
made in a game. The White Sox did
1t twice, Boston once, and Detroit
once. In seven games a team has
made nineteen hits and in the same
number OF games total of eighteen
hits has been rung up on one side. The
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have experienced was on June Is,
when Detroit hammered White. Ohm
stead and Walsh for twenty safeties,
but on the whole the White Sox pitch
ers have Jared we'll in the hard hit
ting table During one week in May
/ the slugging became so strong that a
total of 467 hits was made by Amer
ican League batsmen. Six times a
team has made sixteen or more hits
in a game and lost it. The seasons
record for slugging follows;
TWenty-One Hits
Aug. 25-washington. OF Mullin-
Lafitte (DetroiD.
Oct. s-St. Louis, OF Lahtte( De-
troit).
Twenty Hits.
May 11-Chicago. off Groom wash
ington).
May 19-Boston, off willett-worls-
Mullin (Detroit). ten innigs.
June 1S-Detroit, of White-Olm-
stead Walsh (Chicago).
August 20--Chicago. of Becker
! Washington.
Nineteen Hits.
May 1O-Chicago. off Johnson-Sher-
ry-Otey-Gray (Washington).
May 2-Philadelphia. off Hamilton
Mitchell-George (St. Louis).
May Philadelphia, off Lively
Covington- Works (Detroit.
June 1-Detroit, off Walker-Otey
(Washington).
July 5--New York, off Plsnk-Bend
r-Krause-Leonard philadelphia.
August 3--Cleveland, off Vaughn
Warhop New York;.
Eighteen Hits.
April 27-Chicago. of Powell
Pfeffer est. Louis).
May 12-St. Louis, off Coombs-Mor
gan-Bender (Philadelphia).
May 14-Cleveland, off Warhop
Quinn New York;.
May 21-Washingtop, off Laftte
Detroit).
June 10-Philadelphia. off Powell
\ Hamilton-H Harper (St. Louis).
June 2s-Philadelphia, off Hughes
n Sherry Washington.
July Washington. off White
Olmstead- Baker (Chicago).
Seventeen Hits.
April 21-Boston. off Coombs-Rus
sell (Philadelphia).
May 3-Philadelphia, off Fisher
Quinn, New York;
May 21-Philadelphia, off Blandin
(Cleveland).
May 24-Philadelphia, of Harknes
(Cleveland). -----
May 29-Boston, off Walker-Ottey
Sherry (Washington).
June philadelphia, off Harknesi
Paige (Cleveland).