Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-05
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BATTING FIGURES
Rogers Hornsby is Leading Bats
man for 1920 Season, Bat
ting at $40 Clip.

New York. N. Y, Jan. 5.--The folloa-
inc arc the official batting averages OF
National League players for the season oil
1920. together with additional interesting
individual and club records:
The leading batsman for lp20is Rogers
Hornsby of the st. Louis club. Hornsby
engaged in l4q games, SIX less than ms ciue
played. and compiled the splendid batting
percentages Of $40. OF the forty-fve
champion batsmen since the organization
of the National League, but nineteen nave
finished with higher batting mark than
Hornsby, Hugh Duffy turning IN the high
est percentage when he hit Tor .a5e IN
1894.
Hornsby's mark of $40 has been ex-
cclled but four times since 1000, when
Hans Wagner hit that wear for $50; the
following wear when Jesse Burkett touch
ed $50; arain in 1905 when Cy Seymour
had .3T7. and in 1912 when Henry Iim-
norman led with .312.
Hornsbv made the most hits, 2lS, and
also leads in two-base hits, with "A NH
ton Stock is the leading one-base mttef,
with no singles; Hy Myers leads IN three
base hits. with 22, and Cy Wiiliams oeeu-
pics home run honors, with 10 home runs.
Rogers Hornsby leads the long hltters
with 800 total bases, for a percentage OF
$50.
Two PLAYERS. Rogers Hcrnsby Of St
Louis and Ross Young OF New YORK,
gsrnered more than two hundred nuts rs
their seasons portion. Only thirteen
National League batters have reaped
more hits per season than has Hornshy,
with Willie Keeler OF Baltimore, the
leader, NTH 2iS hits during the season OF
1897.
George Burns of New York leads the
nun scorers with ll5 runs. Not SINCE lYl l.,
when James Sheckard of Chicago tsliied
12l runs. has any player reached TINS hlgh
mark in runs scored.
Max Carey of Pittsburg leads the rus
ners along the base paths, with % stolen
bases
George Cutshaw Of Pittsburg is the lead
ing sacrifice hitter, with ~ sacrifice hits.
Five PLAYERS engaged in every gam e
which their clubs played, rs follows
George Kelly, New York; James Johnston,
BROOKLYN. and Milton Stock, st. Louis, l55
games each; Louis Duncan, Cincinnati,
l54. and Norman Boeckel, Boston, l53
games.
Milton Stock went to the bat the most
times, 63a.
There werss fcrty-nine cases of hitting
safely in ten or more consecutive games,
with Eddie Roush of Cincinnati the lead
er. Roush on August - began streaSof
safe hitting that endured for twenty
seven successive contests and yielded 40
hits in ia times at bat TIL September %,
when Charles Adams of Pittsburg stopped
Roush.
David Bancroft of New York was the
only player thst got SIX hits IN SIN times
at bat in one game This Bancroft did on
June 2S, against Philadelphla.
Eleven PLAYERS garnered FIVE hits IN q
game one player, Ross Young OF New
York. performing the feat twice Walter
Maranvilie of Boston, Earl Smith, George
Burns and Ross Young of New York,
Davis Robertson OF Chicago, William
Southworth OF Pittsburg, and Clifton
Yeatheofe OF St Louis were the other men
who made FIVE hits in as many time at
bst
Eight PLAYERS tailed four runs in one
game during the past season, VIZ: Fred
Williams and Emil Neusel o. Philadelphia,
Charles Hollocher and George PasSert of
Chicago. George Cutshaw OF PIttsburg,
Henry Groh. OF Cincinnati, Jacques
Fournier oF St Louis and Peter klldutf
of Brooklyn.
There were one hundred and six shut
outs scored last season. the clubs beng
shut out a. follows: Chicago, SIN times.
Boston. ten times; Brooklyn, st. LOUIS
and Philadelphis twelve times each;
New York, thiIt ,en times; Plttshurg,
seventeen times, ard Cincinnati twenty
four times.
St Louis leads IN club batting with
percentage Of .2s9; made the most hits,
] .5So; the greatest number Of total bases,
2,ll5: most singles, l,223. and got the
greatest number Of two-base hits, 23S.
Brooklyn made the most three-base hits,
90. and Philadelphia batted out the great
est number of home runs, O.
New York leads in scoring with 6S2
runs, and Pit5sburg Is the leading base
stealing club, with lSl stolen bases
Chicago leads in sacrifice hits, with 220-
Two hundred and thirty-seren players
were used BIZ the eight National League
clubs durii tde p ST season.
NDIvI UAL BATTING.