Evening journal., 1921-06-04

with percentage Of .413. George
Burns Of the Giants leads in run
scoring with 3S tallies. Jimmy
Johnston Of the Robins made the
most hits SO. A tie exists for home
run honors both George Kelly Of the
Giants and Emil Meusel Of the Phil
lies poled . each. George Cutshaw
of the Pirates is showing the way
along the base path with ten stolen
bases and Wilbur Cooper OF the
Pirates heads the hurlers with eight
victories and no defeats.
After the seventh weeks compil-
ing of the records. the following
table shows the batting records Of
the two leagues:
G. AB. X. II. 2B. BIB. HR.SB. PC.
336 1892 172O 1870 400 19s 120 III DOB
322 1906 1859 1896 asa ia 12S POP .2sS
Cy William Of the Phillies after
hitting safely his last ] games in a
row. quit June to Bill Ryan. Dur
ing his hitting period. Cy came
through with i6 safe blows in A
batting tries for a mark of .364
Jim Tierney Of the Pirates con-
cluded his second batting streak of
the present season by going hitless
June l, to Speed Martin and Jimmy
York Of the Cubs. Like his first
one, this streak also endured for Ia
consecutive games and yielded 21
hits in 81 trials for percentage Of
.344.
Emil Meusel OF the Phillies is en-
joying the longest batting streak in
the National League at the present
time, 10 consecutive games, during
which Emil punched out 25 hits in
Ga tries for percentage of .391 and
scored 12 runs.
Ray Powell concluded the longest
scoring streak in the National
League since Ross Young of the Gil
ants scored runs in II straight games
during 1918. Powell, after equall-
ing this record. quit to the Robins
MAY 81, after scoring IA runs in his
last IL games.
Jacques Fournicr Of the Cardinals
quit May "a to the Cubs after scor-
ing 10 runs in 6 straight contests.
Jimmy zinn of the Pirates turned
In the largest shutout score in the
Majors this year by blanking the
Cubs 13 runs TO nothing May 30.
George Burns of the Giants, after
a batting rampage that endured for
/ 10 consecutive games, quit to a quar-
tet of Philies' hurlers May 30 Dur
ing his hitting period George smote
/ "a safe ones in Sc batting tries for a
batting figure OF .42S and Tailed IA
runs.
Jacques Fourner Of the Cardinals
carried a hitting streak through IL
games in a row till he ran afoul a
trio of Reds pitchers May 30, who
hustled his streak. II yielded Four
nier 16 hits in so trials for a mark
of $50.
Larry Kopf Of the Reds. after hit
ting safely his last ten straight con
tests was halted May 30 by Ferd
schupp and Bill Doak During his
streak Kopf banged out 1S hits In
ss attempts for a batting figure OF
.342.
The Braves licked the Robins af-
ter 16 innings, May 80. 1t is the
longest game staged I'm the Majors
this season.
Max Carey of the Pirates got five
hits in one game and for the double
! header played May 30, the Meet
Z Pirate came through Win mus III
tries Carey also tailed four runs
in the first game.
Norman Boeckel of the Braves
4 Quit June / to the Robins after scor-
ing runs in his last seven games.
Dave Bancroft hit for the Cycle
, June /, by combing George Smith
for a single. double, triple and q
/ home run in four times at the bat
t Walter Schmidt of the Pirates ar
! ter hitting safely his last nine games
l was halted May 2s by Adolfo Luque
r During his stretch of hitting Waite
poked out 10 hits in so tries for I
e mark OF 1913.
q The Pirates set a unique record II
B. the game staged May % in that tn
team got hits. one hit apiece
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