Evening journal., 1920-09-11
SISLER BLAzES
AMERICANS PATH
Brown Walloper Out in
Front This Week at
1893 Clip
COLLINS MURDERS
LEAGUE TwIRLERS

the American League hitters win 4.
percentage OF 1913. Sisler noled Tho
most hits, 200 lie got his SOOih hsse
M on Eddie Cicotte. on Seniemher
Sisler Is The only major iearuer 10
garner 900 hits since the season ~
1911 when Ty Cobb flashed the onlv
double century Of hits. Babe Rui6
leads In runs scored, with f4O tallies
bamDino needs only 8 moro rims lo
break Ty Cobbs modern scorlnS
record, which Ty set in 1911 his
greatest batting year. when Ty denied
the scoring dish ii7 times Ruth
neads the sluggers with i6 four-base
licks. sam Rice, OF the Senators.
SHOWS me way along the base paths.
WIN ~ stolen bases and Jim Bagbv
heeds the hurltrs. with 27 Victories
son,.,o ana y deIeais, Tor pitching per-
Babe Ruth, on Sept. 4. created A
new all-league record for home runs
IN season by ramming homers on
sam Jones and Joe Bush. Of the Red
Sox. Babes first homer tied Perry
Werden's record Of 80 home runs
made In 1895, while Ruth's second
homer flashed a new home run mark
Tor one season for all time
The following table best illustrates
the difference between baseball as
played In ye olden days and lust
what is served present day fans. for
shows that Ruth went 10 the bat 40
times less than Werden, although the
latter played six games less than Babe
In settling his home run mark. The
liable shows just what Ruth and Wer-
den did while making their home run
records:
@. AB. r. II. IR. pc.
Ruth ....... 40 i3s II 70 &c .529
Werden ..... "a i7S 81 96 i5 $50
Eddie Collins. the While S0x cap
tain, Is numbering opposing hurlers In
his last II games, Eddie getting one or
more base hits, his streak being un-
broken to date. Collins average for
the nth contest is .ii9. Eddie boosted
his percentage from .3i7 up 20 his
present batting figure OF 1863. enough
TO land him in nth position among
the hhters. This Is Collins second
prolonged streak OF hitting this year.
The keystone king wound up a 2i-
game hitting streak on August O.
Aficr a lapse OF ~ games Collins en-
lrred Upon his present unproken
streak Of batting
The New York Yankees got their
iOOth home run OF the current seasun
on Sept. 4, when Babe Ruth smote
pair q homers of Red SOX hurling
This Is a record for homers by a club
In one season. delve through base
bal e archives from 800 proves that
the Phillies, whl garnered 73 round
t-'apCrs In the sersCu OF 1919. for
msrly held the record for the m)st
homers in one year. The Phils also
held the three highest marks, getting
62 home runs In 1911 and 60 in 1911.
George Slsler reached Eddie ClcOtte
for four hits In the game staged Sep
tember I. This was the nth time this
year that Sisler flashed four hits In
one game.
Elmer Smith. Of the Indians. after
hitting safely his last n games. qui.
on September Z, TO Doc Ayres. Smith,
during his streak, banged out i6 hits
in as trials. for a mark OF .3j6.
Joe Judge. OF the Senators, con-
cluded his second prolonged streak OF
batting, by going hltless September 5,
10 Ben Karr and Herb PennOck. Judge
had hit safely his last II games, get
ting 81 safe blows in 60 tries, for a
percentage OF ii9 and scoring 10 runs
Earlier this season Joe hit safely in
i6 straight games.
Harry Hooper had hit safely his last
10 games and got IS safe ones in Al
ATTEMPTS lnI iotlt Wutu HdFIN Bic
miller applied the brakes on Sept. 6.
Elmer Myers. OF the Indians. dis
carded hurler, lost his first pitching
effort for the Red Sox, then copped
the last six games he hurled for BOs-
ton.
When Eddie Clcoite lost 10 the
Browns. on September (, Il marked
the FIRST defeat for Cicotte from the
Browns since June %. 1919.
Cy Perkins OF the Athletics. had hit
for 1864 in seven games, when Herb
stopped Cy, on Sept. 6.
Amos Strunk, after scoring eight
runs in six straight contests, quit |
Z, TO the Tigers.
Ivy Griffin. OF the Athletics. after
scoring ten runs In seven successive /
games, was halted September B. by
he Senators.
Following are the individual batting
lVpra reQs