Evening journal., 1920-07-03
'HORNSBY SETS
NATIONAL PACE
Bancroft Flashes Biggest
Batting Day for Nearly
Five Years
ST. LOUIS OUT
IN LEAGUE FRONT

Rogers Hornsby leads the National !
League hitlors with a percentage OF
$50. Rog also clouted the most hits,
one hundred, and Is in a tie for lead
ing run scorer with Max Flack; each
obtained forty-siX runs. Cy Williams,
of the phillios, leads in home runs
With eight. and Max Carey continues
30 show the way along the base paths
with twenty-four stolen bases. Lee
Meadows, OF the phillies, is In the
van FOR hurting honors with eight
victories and two defeats for a pitch
ing percentage of 800.
Dave Bancroft. OF the Giants, flashed
The biggest batting day for perfect
| hitting In the majors for nearly five
years on June 2S. Banny rammed a
! trio OF philies for six successive hits
In one contest Bancroft is the tlf-
teenth National Lacquer TO garner six
hits In six times at bat In a contest
, In the fOrty-lye years OF National
| League baseball This trick has been
turned only flye times In twenty-ohe
American League seasons.
The tlrst player 10 get SIX mus slN
/ tries. was l.. Dickerson, OF tne Mur-
cesler Nationals, In 1881. DlckerS,un ,,,l
poled six hits for seven bases on Jim
/ calvin. then in order come Jerry
Denny and Larry Twitchen IN 1871,
/ Iack Glasscock. iS90 I'd. Delehmty
and Walter Brodie In 1894 hoger noh-
I nor and George Davis In 1870, rom
/ rncker Willie Keller and JACK DoNle
| In 1907. both Keller and Doyle were
In ihc baltimore lineup OF SepteiilpeI
1 r when they shared their SIX hits on
Prank Donohue Clarence beauiilloni' nor
and Charley Stahl in 1899, George Guy
shhNv on Aupust o 1919 and ltang,vls. I,
iOf the above the honors reaily peloiis
lio Larry Twitchell. Of the CleXels,9l,Sils, e9,i,o
Who On Aueuse i5 1899, smOte Mike
,taddon .of BosiOn. for a single, dou-
No ihree triples and a home run IN
siv trials for a total OF sixteen Dasss.
rhil beiters Ty CObh's greatest Gay
,,,ith Inc hat. Ty. IN the double heaner
egsinst mo Athletics on July X, iyie'
hit FOR \ total of fifteen bases IN Vhe
{. double header staged that day; ~
@picLles' nnhofcr. after hfutlng ai'
eo,-ia ~ hurling for eleven sWthtall''
was stopped June 30, by nutch heutn- ,,,,l
err nilhoefer came through WIN i,- tlil-
teen hits in thlriy-ono tries Tor marx
, " Al Namaux set the seasons strike
out record June ~, pS lahnlne V'e'N'
OF the Braves.
. an noeed oesrdinSis was the frst National
4 I foort,er 10 come through win one
S hundred hits this season. Rog poleu
Ills century hit on June 30 on Dulch
n Rueiher. An extended streak OF hal-
p ting. lasting fifteen consecutive games
Q ereatly aided Hornshy In gettng w
S FIRST hundred hits. Hornny nekan MT
n ling them on June 8 and clowod on
= ~ mora hits for fifteen games tii
a Iune pa when Ruether folled MN
4 nurinr his streak OF hitting hoi
/ hanged out twenty-four safe ones n
sixtv-one trials for a percentage o.
q OF .3q3 and scored thiriefn runs I'M
EQUALS the longest batting streak o
4 the year made by Walter tolhe OF Vn'
Z Fred Merkle OF the Cubs, after hit
y ting safely his last fourteen straigh
y games, was stopped June 29 byrWilbul
y COoper OF the Pirates. Fred, Wnll'
hitiinc them, got twenty-five hit'
d IN nfty-battlng tries for marx o
o George Kelly Of the Giants had hi
a safe In eleven successive games, Whei
;, "Red" Causey applied the brakes
3 Ceorre. durine his siretch OF HITTING
II reaped % hits IN forty ailtempls 10
X The splendld average Of $50. Cause'
surely was some Giants streak stoppe
this game: besides kelly'6, Cause,
n halted Frank Frisch. who had hi
u safely his first fourteen oompict
8 games for the Giants the present sea
y son. Frisch for his streak banged on
IS nineteen safe ones In nfty-three rie
" for a mark OF .3oS
,6 Earl Smith OF the Giants, after
,3 batting streak OF nine straight games
70 was stopped, June 80. by Burleigl
i6 Grimes. Smith smashed seventeen hit
i3 IN twenty-eight trials for the Ter
10 rife average OF COZ. Earl had got
80 ten seven hits In a row up to thi
i3 contest.
p The champion batsman for a singl
81 game Is Wilhcrt Robinson, manage
% OF the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robbie u
p June 40, 1892, garnered six single
26 and a double or the combined offe
25 ings OF "pretzel" Getzeln, Cy Noun
"a and Theodore Breitensteln. Rohbi
2i secured his septet OF blows In IN
20 nrst OF a double bill that day. Will
20 In the closing affalr Robbie poled
n pair OF One-haggsrs or "Preizel
IS Gelzein for q total Of nine hits /
70 twelve tries for the day. In IN
70 same games George Van Haltre
~ scored eight runs and seven hits.
al BATTINC AVERAGES