The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-09
BRINGING
UP
FATHER
BY
MCMANUS
H0RNSBY IS BATTING
CHAMP FOR 1920 OF
The NATIONAL LEAGUE
(By Associated PresS)

CHICAGO, Oct 9.-Roger Hornsby,
the st. Louis star. won the 1920 bat
ting championship of the National
League with an average of $40, ac-
cording to final unofficial averages
released today. Hornsby participated
in 149 games and cracked out 21S hits
for total Of 1923 bases. His hits in
cluded AZ doubles, 10 triples and s
home runs
Nicholson, who started the season
as pinch hitter for Pittsburgh and then
became a regular outfielder, played in
SO games and was the runner-up to
Hornsby with mark of 1862, while
Young, of New York, in 1913 games,
: acquired an average of .355 for third
place.
Brooklyn. which Won the pennant,
finished the season with four batters
in the 900" class. They were z.
Wheat with 1928: Konetchy, .30S:
Grimes, .306, and Myers, 1903. In team
hating Brooklyn was tied with Gin
cinnati for second place, with an aver
age of PIT, while ST. Louis topped the
clubs with .2SS.
Max Carey, the fleet footed Pitts
hurgh outfielder, finished the season
with a record of fifty-one stolen bases,
Roush of Cincinnati and Frisch, of
New York being his closest rivals
with thirty-five thefts each.
Williams Runs Close.
! Cy Williams, of Philadelphia was
given close race for home run honors
by his teammate, Meusel, the former
banging out Is while the latter made
IA.
! Other leading batters:
Roush, Cincinnati, 1877; J. Smith,
Cincinnati, .329; q. Wheat, Brooklyn,
.32S; Williams, Philadelphia, 1924:
Eayrs, Boston, 1924; Stock, st. Louis,
.319; Hollocher, Chicago, .31S; Daily,
Chicago, .311; Meusel, Philadelphia,
.30S; Konetchy, Brooklyn, sos; See,
Cincinnati, .30S; Fourier, St. Louis,
SOC; Grimes, Brooklyn, .3O6; Daubert.
Cincinnati. .304; Myers, Brooklyn,
sos; Flack, Chicago, 800.
The American league season ended
with thirty-nine batters hitting 800 or
better, and to George Sisler, the
phenomenal st. Louis frst-baseman,
went the honor of topping the list.
Sisler finished with an average of
.407. In 154 games he cracked out PSI
hits for a total of 399 bases, which in
cluded 40 doubles, IS triples and 10
circuit drives. He also tied Iris
Speaker, manager Of the Cleveland
Indians, for second place in the num-
Der of runs scored, having registered
1877 times. and gave Rice of Washing
| ton a close race for the stolen base
honors Rice led the league with IS
thefts, while the ST. Louis star pilfered
Al.
Speaker RunnerUp.
| Iris Speaker, in addition to plotting
! the Indians to the league champion
ship, played in $50 games and was
| the runner-up to Sisler with an aver
Q ge of 3S5, two points in front OF Joe
Jackson. the White Sox slugger, who
up to the time of his suspension for
! his part in the "baseball scandal had
hit for an average Of $50.
Babe" Ruth, of New York, WHO
proved to be the big star Of the league
through his ability to slam out home
runs, wound up in fourth place among
the batters with an average of $40,
! with eddie Collins, captain of the
! Chicago White SoX, behind him with
81. Ruth, who set a record of 81
! home runs also brought the record for
runs scored in a single season in the
| league up to 1JS.
The Cleveland club, which won the
| pennant, had ten men, including
i Chapman, who was killed, in the 300
| class. Besides the deceased short
stop, the leading Cleveland batters
we're: Speaker, .3S5; Evans, .355;
Uhle. .344: Nunamaker. .333; Sewell,
.329; O'Neill, .321; Jameson, .31S; E.
/ Smith, .316; Gardner. .30S.
| ST Louis topped the league in team
/ batting with an average of .307, while
! Cleveland was second with .309 and
! Chicago third with .295.