Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-03
yNS HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO STEAL MORE
SLSLER HAS CHANCE
TO PASS COBB;S MARK
Gauge viii Beat 248 Hit
Record if He Continues
Present Whaling Speed
Nv GRANTLAND RICE

! Babe is the Colossus of Swat, not
it's Olympian dwellcr in the way OF an
average.
II all goes back to matter Of nine
years ago. Nine years ago Ty Cobb
set a seasons output that was supposed
to be an enduring record.
That season he batted .420 and in
the course thereof delivered 24S base
hits--the greatest number ever gathered
in a major league year.
Now, only limited few ever pass the
200. mark. Iris Speaker and Joe Jack
son have atltheir best years, but even
these two have found It a rasping job.
So to 70 on beyond 200 and climb to
within two hits of 250 is an accom-
pishment Of more than zephyry note.
The Challenger
! NOBB'S 24S hits may not be enduring
" after all. Very likely they will be
for this generation at least-but there
is challenger out upon the trail.
/ We refer to none other than George
Sisler, Michigan's contribution to the
gayety Of st. Louis and the depression
of all rival pitchers.
Sisler made his Tooth base hit when
the st. Louis club was playing its
fifty eighth ball game.
This meant that Sisler still had
Cobb's total.
1t also meant that IL he continued
to hit through the remainder of the
season as he had through April, May
and June, he would break this total
One hundred hits for fifty eight games
means, at the same rate. 200 hits fol
116 games, or around 270 hits for 154
games. Sisler could fall slightly away
from his first fifty eight games and still
pass Cobb's amazing total.
The New Leader
|TINLESS the st. Louis star skid,
- into a heavy slump he will un.
doubtedly be the new American Leagu,
leader.
Speaker and Jackson have been hang
ing on grimfy, but neither up to July
was able to keep pace with the Browni,
premier.
After you reach 400 it is no cas-,
matter to maintain this average. Blu
Sisler had day after day where he con
tributed two and three hits, rarely fall
ing down to one lone blow.
Most of his hits have been of tn
whistling variety, hit with great spec,
through the infield-entirely too f8s
for even the most alert shortstop D
second baseman to knock down.
, Sisler, in addition to fine swing an
; keen eye, has remarkable speed. II
is away as fast as Cobb in Ty's bes
! days. The fact that he has been u
above 800 through several campaigns
shows that this seasons mark Is n
. part of a fuke. Cobb had been in tn
big league six years before he gathere
; those 24S hits and reached his highes
6 peak. A year later he dropped to .410
. 1911 and 1912 were his two finest sea
6 sons, the only two years he ever crosse
| 400. -.
But Sisler, with two such men @
g Speaker and Jackson, can't afford I
. do any skidding.
These are the same pair who CAV
I Cobb his hardest battles. Jackson fin
ished only few hits behind Cobb whe
the latter went beyond 400, viii
:, Speaker was the only one to stop Il
Z Georgian's long run.
I Neither is a fiedgeling, but they ca
g both crash the old apple, in the class
IS diction of Signor Ping Pizzola.
q Sisters Mate
% TT SISLER and Hornsby both con
g l. through st. Louis will be the fir
y city on record to harbor the two leadil
Is hitters Of the major leagues.
q Detroit and Cleveland have held t
u honor in the American League for t
20 last thirteen years, while Pittsburg
2S Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn a.
q Cincinnati have shared the fame
;! Wagner, Zimmerman, Magee, Daubt
20 and Roush.
II Hornsby is still holding his field
IS bay, but he also has plenty of comp
u tition.
II TINE next move is for Sir Thorn
- l. Upton to report the Shamrock
O8 being in the pink Of condition. SO
oS we have seen remarkably few pi
~ Shamrocks in our wandering.
ees CENATOR HARDING is pictured
Da ~ being of the calm, unruffled tyr
ss22 Does this apply to his third stroke
SIS a bunker or the occasion of his four
sS putt? An unrutfled golfer who has il
~ taken nine on some hole is odd enou
So to be awarded high honors.
y A ND just a year ago it was still
Il n matter of some doubt as to whetf
"a Dempsey could spot Willard 81,
10 pounds and get by. The bulk of Il
g doubt was removed twenty -four hol
II later.
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