The Cordova daily times., 1921-01-31
STATISTICS ON
 BALL PLAYERS
 INQEDLEACUE !!


 edPress) The leading batsman in the National league for 1920 is Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis club. Horns by engaged in 149 games, six less than his club played, and compiled the splendid batting percentage of .370. Of the forty-five champion batsmen since the organization of tht National League, but nineteen have finished with higher batting mark than Hornsby. Hugh Duffy turning in the highest percentage when he hit for .438 in 1894
 Hornsby's mark of .37O has been ex- celled but four times since 1900, when Hans Wagner hit that year for .3S0; the following year Jesse Burkett touched 1882; again in 1905 when Cy Seymour had .377, and in 1912 when Henry Zimmerman led with .372.
 Hornsby made the most hits, 218, and also leads in two-base hits, with A. Milton Stock is the leading one- base hitter, with ITO singles Fly My CTS leads in three-base hits, with 22. and Cy Williams occupies home run honors, with 15 home runs.
 Rogers Hornsby leads the long hit ters with 329 total bases, for a per centage of .559
 Two players, Rogers Hornsby of St Louis and Ross Young of New York, garnered more than two hundred hits as their seasons portion.
 Grover Alexander, Chicago, has the title of leading pitcher, with an aver age of 1.72. Burleigh Grimes, Brook lyn, has best percentage for games won and lost, -.676. Grover Alexander, Chicago, won the most games, 27 Eppa Rixey, Philadelphia, lost the most games, 22. Jesse Haines, St Louis, pitched in the most games, 47. Grover Alexander, Chicago pitched in the most innings. 363. Charles B. Adams. Pittsburg, led in shutout games, 8. Grover Alexander, Chicago, led in strikeouts, 173 Fred Schupp, St. Louis, allowed the most bases on balls, 127. Charles E. Ponder Pitts. burg, made the most wild pitches. 1O John Scott, Boston, hit the most batsman, 13. Grover Alexander, Chi cago, allowed the most hits, 335, also pitched to the greatest number of bat ters, 1,447. Eppa Rixey, Philadelphia, allowed the most sacrifice hits, 49 John Scott, Boston, allowed the most runs to be scored, 14S. Joheps Oes- chger, Boston, allowed the most earned runs, 115.
 Grover Alexander, Chicago, enjoyed the longest consecutive winning streak, Il victories.
 A tie exists for longest consecutive losing streak, four pitchers John Benton, Richard Rudolph, Elwood Martin and John Scott losing 2 straight games apiece.
 Charles B. Adams, Pittsburgh, gave a marvellous exhibition of control by permitting but IS of the 1,035 batsmen facing him to get bases on balls, this in the 263 innings he pitched. In 1919, Adams pitching like number of innings to 1,017 baters, issued 23 bases on balls.
 George Burns of New York leads the run scores with 115 runs. Not since 1911, when James Sheckard of Chicago tallied 121 runs, has any player reacher this high mark in runs scored
 Max Carey of Pittsburg leads the runners along the base paths, with 52 stolen bases.
 George Cutshaw of Pittsburgh is the leading sacrifice hitter, with 37 sacrifice hits.
 Five players engaged in every game which their clubs played, as follows: George Kelly, New York; James John ston, Brooklyn, and Milton Stock, St. Louis, 155 games each; Louis Duncan, Cincinnati, 154, and Norman Boeckel, Boston, 15S games
 Milton Stock went to the bat the most times, 639
 George Kelly, New York, leads the first basemen, with a percentage of 994. He had the greatest number of putouts, 1,759; the most assists, 1O3, and bthe most total chances, 1873. l |g3rMorris Rath, Cincinnati, heads the second basemen, with a percentage of .977, while Rogers Hornsby made the most putouts, 343; assists, 524, and also the greatest number of total chances, 901.
 jsGharlesH Deal, Chicago, leads the 'l third lbasemen, with a percentage of