Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-21
.HE|LMAN HEAVY HITTER
Of AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit Outficldcr Beats Cobb
for Honor by )
Points.
srEA>En mas GnEAr MARK
Cleveland Manager slams Flfty-'rwe
rwo-Dnse IiIts-Dabc Ruth Estab-
fishes New lIorne-Ttun Rccord-Ti-
gers Lead In Club batting.
icy Associated prcss.l
Compiled by Irwin VI. Howe, Chicago.

compiled ny Irwin NJ. Howe. Chicago
CHICAGO. Dec. 20.--BattinG of tho
most sensational character featured
/ the games Of the American League
! throughout the season. Phenomena,
He!d!nE plays were n natural sequence
I TO the heavy hitting and fast and
clever base running on hit and ran
plays was the order OF the day. The
art Of bnSe stealing. however, was
almost discontinued. II being obvious
that TO take Two bases or more on tho
probable Forthcoming base hit was
better strategy for the runner than to
risk being cut down on an attempt
TO steal.
No less than 1885 safe hits were
/ made in Go games OF which 2,l4O
were two basgers. 694 for three bases
and tho hitherto unprecedented mum
her of Az We're home runs. They
averaged n little nose than twenty
Ia the game. of which more than five
were for extra bases.
Detroit Leads SIugScrs,
The Detroit club led the sluEgers
with an average OF .Si6 for the sea-
son, followed by Cleveland with sos:
81. Louis. .3o5; and the champion
New York Yankees with an even 800
The champions, led by Babe"
Ruth, drove out 1874 home runs and
wero first in total bases. St. Louis
gathered log triples. and Detroit, 100,
while the Cleveland Indians whaled
$50 two-base hits. The eX-champions
also coaxed GA bases on balls from
the nervous pitchers. New York being
awarded SIS and Detroit $50
The greatest individual record of
the year. attracting more attention
than anything that has heretofore oc-
CURED In baseball was the perform
ancc OF George II. Ruth who broke
his own world record for home runs
by making ffty-ninc safe blows that
were good for the round trip. In
three successive seasons Ruth has
raised the record OF twenty-five home
runs made IN 1899, first to twenty
nine. then to ffty-tour, and now TO
Afty-nine.
Heflmnn Lends League.
Harry +. tiet!mann. Detroit out
fielder, beat out Manager Cobb by
five points for the league leadership
in batting with record OF 1914 He'll
mann made c31 hits in l4s games, for
total OF 500 bases. Forty-three of
his safcties We're for two bases, four
teen were triples, and nineteen were
home runs, Heilmann scored ia runs
and was responsible for 100 more of
the Tigers total OF SS3. He IA credit
cd In the r. II. +. column, with I3s
runs, but these include his nineteen
homers. Heilmann led every one In
sending runs across the plate EXCEPT
Euth. who was credited with ITO. of
which flfty-ninc were his own four
base blows Ruth counted III times.
j. T. Tobin. st. Louis being second
with lac. Sislcr third. with 1875, and
Cobb fourth. with 12I.
Speakers Great Record.
Manager iris Speaker made ffty-
Two two-base hits: Ruth. forty-four;
heiimann and his teammate T.. N.
Neach. fortythree each. and r. Meu-
sell New York. forty. Howard
Shanks. Washington. drove out nine
teen three baGgcrs. Tobin and Sislcr.
eighteen each. and Cobb, Ruth and
X. Mcusel sixteen each. As stated
ABOVE. Ruth established 4 new record
for home runs with ffty-nine. Meusel
and X. r. Williams. st. Louis being
tied for second place with TWENTY
four each, while Clarence Walker, OF
was third with twenty
three. Little attention was paid to
s. Halins bases and the sacrifice was
not used AS frequently as In former
years Tor the same reason that pro-
limited base stealing. Sisicr piifered
thirty-fve bases, Rice. twenty-five.
ana Cobb twenty-five. w. A. Wambs-
Eanns. Cleveland. laid down forty
three sacrifices. owen Bush. Detroit
Washington. forty-onc: McInnis. Bos-
ton, thirty-iivc. and MulIigan. Chi
cago, thirty-four.