The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
By JACK VEIOCK,

New York, Jan. 5-Twenty players, | headed by Rogers Hornsby, of the Cardinals, hit in the 300 class in the Natona1 League during the season of 1920, according to the official batting averages made public today. Hornsby captured the batting championship of his circuit with an average of .3T0. mark that has and excelled only nineteen times over a stretch of forty-five years during which batting championship records have been kept.
 l The batting average of the new champion topped that of Fred Nichol- son. of the Pirates. by ten points and ! Hornsby took part in 14s games. SIX
 less than his team played. In the
 first ten with Hornsby are Ross
 Young. New York. with 1851: Ed
 Rousch, Cincinnati. with .339; Smith. l St. Louis. .332; Zach Wheat. Brook
 lyn, BPS; Eddie Eayres. Boston, BPS;
 Fred Williams. Philadelphia. 1925: i Milton Stock. St. Louis, .31s. and
 Charley Hol1ocher, Chicago. .S19. Of the first twenty batsmen. all of whom | hit 300 or better, seven played in less
 than one hundred games. which | leaves thirteen batsmen who ~roved 1 their right to be classed as .30U hit ters by batting consistently in 130 games or more.
 Card Team Averages.
 The batting strength of the St. Louis Cardinals is shown in the team aver | ages The Cards led their rivals as a team, hitting ,2Ss, an exceptions fly fine average and part of the answ CT
 is shown in the list of the "charmed
 twenty" in which Hornsby, Stock, Smith and Fournier appear,
 The champion Brooklyn Dodgers talso had four consistent 300 hitters
 last season in Wheat, Koney, Grimes
 and Myers, and Brooklyn finished sec ond in team batting with .277, . Max Carey the fleet Pirate outf1efd- CT, led his league once again in stolen bases. offering a total of fifty-twe ' Carey has long been the best base ruDaer in his league.
 l hurnsby made the most hits, s1S
 and also leads in two-base hits with
 forty-four. Milton Stock is the iead ing one-base hitter, with 1T6 singles 3 lily Myers leads in three-base hita ) with twenty-two, and Cy Williams ee g cupies home-run honors with fifteer , home runs.
 v Rogers Hornsby leads the ieng hit
 ters with 32e total bases, for a Der = centage of .55s.
 | Two players-Rogers HeFnsby. @
 St. Louis, and Ross Young. of Nep = york-garnered more than two hun q dred hits as their seasons portion = Only thirteen National League batter | have reaped more hits per seaso1 V than has Hornsby. with Willie Keeie. n of Baltimore. the leader, with s4 if hits during the season of 1897. is Made Most Scores. = George Burns, of New York, lead 1t the run scorers with 115 runs. Nc e since 1911, when James Sheckard, c
 Chicago, tallied 121 runs. has an Il player reached this high mark in run II scored.
 IT George Cutshaw, of Pittsburgh. i Q the leading sacrifice hitter, -rith thir It ty-seEen sacrifice hits.
 'e Five players engaged in every gam , which their club played. as follows d George Kelly. New York; .Jane Stock, St Lou1s, 155 games ssch
 Louis Duncan. Cincinnati. 1sf. an
 Norman Boeckel. Boston, 163 gagae
 Milton Stock went to the bat tn rr most times 639.
 There were forty-ninecases ef ilit
 ting safely in ten or more conseGEtiv d games, with Eddie Roush, of Ciacir , nati, the leader. Roush on A.Eu: .a 27 began a streak of safe hitting tha | endured for twenty-seven succsssiv T. contests and yielded fortysix hits i 5 114 times at bat till September 2 ss when Charles Adams, of Pittsburgh III III stopped Roush.
 1T David Bancroft. of New York. ws L. the oI-.y player that got six hits in si
 times at bat in one game. Tn
 Bancroft did on June -2s. against Phi r Eleven players .garnered five hit ca in a game, one player, Ross Yeun
 of New York. performing the fe' S IW1ce- aileI ot foO De ton; Earl Smith, George Burns an ay Ross Young, of New York; Davi as Robertson of Chicago: WiiIia ry Southworth, of Pittsburgh. and Cli K ton 4eathcote. of St. Louis, were u tn other men who made five hits in or many times at bat
 !. Eight players talIied four runs
 one game duri-g the past seaso n- viz: Fred Williams and Emil Meust of of Philadelphi Charles HoIloch re and George 'kert, or Chica g he George Cut If Pittsburgh HeI h. ry Groh, 1ncinrati: Jacque re Fournier. of ST. Louis, and Peter Ri ts. duff of Brooklyn.
 8 Many Shutout Games ed There were 106 shutouts SCOT, IT, ,cst season. the clubs being shut O h- as follows: Chicago, six times; Ro six ton ten times; Brooklyn, St. Lou
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