Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-01-06
.HORNSBY LEADS NATIONAL
LEAGUE WITH BIG AVERAGE
Premier Player of st. Louis Car
tlinalS SmaCkS Pill for $50;
Also Carriers Most Hits.

The leading batsman OF the Ma
;ional League for 1920 was Rogers
iIornshy Of the 81. Louis club. liornsby
engaged in li9 games, six less than
his club played, and compiled inc
splendid batting percentage OF go.
OF the forty-iivc champion batsmou
since the organization OF the National
League, hut nineteen have hniShcd
with a higher batting mark than
iIornsby Hugh Duffy turning in the
highest percentage when he hit tor
.i3S in 1924.
Hornshy's mark of $40 has been
cNCclIcd hut four times since l"u",
when Hans Wagner hit that year Cor
$50: the following year when Jesse
Burkc;t touched $50; again in 1908
when Cy seymour had .3,i. and IN
1872 when Henry zimmerman led with
81
Hornshy made the most hits. :lS.
and also leads in two-base hits. with
Corty-tuur. Milton stock is tn. lead
juE onc-baSc hitter. with IL" s!nElcS'
lily Myers leads in thrcc-baSc hits.
with twenty-five. and Cy Williams
occupies homc-run honors. with tif-
teen home runs.
Roger llOrns6y leads the long hit-
tors with 329 total bases, for per
Two players. Rogers Hornsby, Of
st. Louis. and Ross Young. OF New
York, Earucrcd more than two nun
dr.d hits as their seasons portion
only thirteen National League bat
,rrs have rcapcd more hits per sca
son than has Horusby, with Willie
Kcclcr Of Baltimore, the leader with
! 243 hits dsring the season OF 1871
George Burns. OF New York. leads
the ran scorers with ll5 runs. Not
| since 1911. when James Shcckard. oi
! chicago, tailed III runs has any
mayer reached this high mark in
Max carsy. of Pittsburgh. leads
/ the runners along the base paths.
! with i:ty-twu stolen bases
George Cutshaw, OF PittSburEh. iS
| the leading sacrifice hitter. Win
/ thirty-SCVcE sacrifice hits.
rave players ensascd in "v"ry
| game which ;hcir club played aS l"l-
lows: George Kelly, New York James
Johnston BROOKLYN, and Milton stock.
81 Louis. l55 games each; Louis pam
can Cincinnati. ;ii. ANA Norman
Hoecket. Eoston. i53 games
Milton stock went TO the bat the
Th,rr were forty-nlnc cases Of hit
ting safely IN ten or more conS"cN :
tive games with Eddie k"ush. OF
| Cincinnati. tho leader, kouSh on
! August - began Il streak Of SAFE nit
| tiug that endured for twrDty-scNcn
successive contests and Welded :"riE-
six hits in ia times at hat. tn Sep.
tcmhcr 30. when Charles Adams. OF
| Pittsburgh. stopped EoUsh
David Bancroft OF New York. was
! the only player that got SIN hts IN
. SIN times al hat IN one sA'H'. Ban
croft dii this on June - a=ainsi
Eleven players aarncred iive hits in
q game. one plIyrr-Ross Young, al
New York. periOrmin. the feat twIc"
walter Maranvi!lc. OF boston, Far
! smith George Burns and Ross
| Voting, of New York: Dave Robert
| SON. ~ Chicago: William S0Uihwor,h
OF Pittsburgh, and Clifton Hcatncnt"
/ Of -. Louis, We're the other men wht
made iv@ nits III as many times al
Eigh, players tailed four runs (,
one game during tn. past sea son
Fred Williams and Emil Mcus"l o
rhiiadelrhta; charles H"l!oehsr an'
George FaSk.rt q chicago; Gcorg'
Cutshaw OF Pittsburgh Henry Groh
| of Cincinnati, jacques Fourier, o
=. Louis and Peter kiidun, q
Brooklyn
There were loo shu;ou,s scored las
, season. tn. clubs being shu; out II
follows. chicago, six times: Boston
zen tiln"s. Brooklyn, 81. Louis an
/. / Ph.lAdclpuia, twelve times each; NcN
York. thirteen times: Pittsburgh. srv
.rtccu times. and Cincinnati, twenty
! -four times
s. Louis Id in club batting wit
b q perrrntngc OF esq. made thu mos
hits ! 5>H: the greatest number q
. total bases 2ll5; most sin" los. ' 30
: and sol; the greatest number OF two
base bits OBS. brooklyn made tn
mos; three base HIS. %, and phila
= dvluhin hattrh out tho greatest nun
ter oi home runs, "a
! Sew YORK led in scoring. Win IS
. nuns and Pittsburgh was III" lea,
. ing stealing club. with Isl stoic
70 bases
, chicago was frs; in sacrifice hi,
' WIKI go
Two hundred ana ,hirty-seven pla,
.rs were used hy the eight Nation
. League clubs during the past seas