The Washington times., 1919-01-04

the major portion of those eleven
years Bush had behind him the IA
nous wrecking crew of Cobb and
Crawford. and when this pair dis
solved partnership IL was Colo and
veach who continued to hammer him
across The plate almost every time
Another OF the many remarkable
things about the records Is the fact
that Gabby Cravath, of the Phillies,
In nine seasons has smashed out q
greater number Of home runs than
any man identified With the game at
the present time-and q greater num-
Der OF circuit swats than Wagner.
Lajoie, Cobb, or any of the others.
The slugging member Of the Phila-
detphia Nationals has hammered out
1J6 circuit hits, while the next best
record is LOG. by Wagner. followed by
o. by Wildfre Frank Schultz, and 50
by Sherry Magee. Of the Reds.
Burns Plays Least.
To George Burns. Of the Giants
goes the honor of'getting his four
figures Of basehits, while playing the
least number Of games. George got
his LOTT swats in just 914 games, he
being the only player to get q thous-
and hits in less than a thousand
games, and Burns and Derrill
Pratt, of the Yankees, are the
only players listed in the table to
get their thousand hits in seven
years. Just ten players could aver
age $50 or more hits per season of
the galaxy OF stars shown in the ia
BILE. OF these Ty Cobb Is away out
in front. for Ty has bagged an aver
aged of $50 base hits each year with
the Tigers. A good second to the
Georgia peach comes Home Run Bak-
erer. the Yanks' slugger's yearly
average showing 16S hits. Han Wag-
ner is third with 163. Then come in
order, Duffy Lewis. 1856; Derrill
Pratt, 1855; Nap Lajoie and Jake Dau-
ebrt with 154 each: iris Speaker, 153:
Joe jackson, 152, and Max Carey, Isl
hits a year.
The following players. eleven in
all played all their major league
games with but one team. Ty CoBb
and DOME Bush with Detroit. Art
Fletcher and George Burns with the
Giants, Zach Wheat and Jake Dau-
bert with Brooklyn, Harry Hooper
and Duffy Lewis with Boston, Clyde
Milan with Washington. Max Carey
with Pittsburgh and John Collins
with Chicago. Terry engaged in two
games for the Pirates in 1901. dur
ing which he got three hits. But for
this he would have gotten every one
OF his big league hits with the In
dians.
Larry Leads Johnsenians.
Although Nap Lajoie's combined
National and American League rec
ord is given in the table. his record
in the American League Is plenty
good enough to give him the honor
position in the Junior organization
for the greatest number Of basehits.
as the following American League
record Of Lajoie's shows: Years. 10.
games. 1885; at bat, 1882: runs.
1901: hits. 2.547; doubles. 612: triples,
12S: homo runs. so; total bases, 3,3e5;
p. C.. 343. This gives the lead to
Latoie in the Johnson circuit Nap
having batted out 23 more hits dur
Ing sixteen years OF play than Cobb
amassed In fourteen seasons
or the forty players that hammered
'ut thousand major basehits TWEEN
ty-five are regular infielders. and the
remaining fifteen cover outfield posi-
tons- The lead in total bases on
hits Is also held by Hans Wagner.
The marvellous Dutchman hit for tho
enormous total 90 4.s73. nearly 400
ses more than Lajois hit. 1t Is to
be regretted that wagner could not
have played just a little longer. II
only to set one record that would
undoubtedly endure as long as base
ball 10 played, that Of hitting for u
total Of 5000 bases, for when Hans
put his bats away for the last time
he neadsd bat 1Sa