The Alaska daily empire., 1921-10-13
NEW RECORDS IN BASEBALL
Babe Ruth Is Credited with Hanging Up Three New
 Marks During Season.

The baseball season just closed was productive of a number of new records, according to the unofficial averages, which include the games of | October ?. Babe Ruth was respons- | ble for at least three new records. The home-run slugger of the pennant- winning Yankees broke his own rec ord for home runs made in single season by pulling up with 59. In crashing out this, string of home runs Ruth shattered the mark of Cravath for total home runs during his major league career. Ruth since coming into the majors has hit 162 homers The former mark held by Cravath was 117.
 Ruth also boosted the American League record as a run-getter by registering IFS times, which exceeds his former mark of year ago by 20 runs.
 The total base record of the Amer- can League, established by George Sisler of St Louis last season, also was exceeded by Ruth, who in mak' ing 204 hits, rolled up a total of 455 bases, the former record being 399. Cobb In Front!
 There is much doubt as to who is the best hitter in the American | League. Some statisticians in their unofficial figures have given the hon or to Harry Heilman, the hard-hitting Detroit outfielder, while others, among them the statstician of the American League, says that Heil mans boss, Ty Cobb, is the cham pion.a eia4aG s,H oesfs 1f aarr
 According to the unofficial aver ages compiled by the league statisti- clans, the Detroit pilot finished three points in front of Heilman. The fig ures available show Cobb finished with an average of .390, while He'll man made .3S7 According to these records, Cobb played in 12S games, was at bat 505 times and made 197 hits. Heilman's record shows that he played in 149 games and made 233 hits in 602 times at bat. Others have figured that the Detroit sluggers were practically tied at the wire with .390, but when carried to four fig ures Heilman was given the edge by a margin of 0003 Cobb's mark in this case was .3901, while that of Heilman was 39O4. According to these figures, Heilman is. credited with 235 hits while the figures which give Cobb honors, credit Heilman with only 233 hits.
 Rogers Hornsby of the St. Louis Nationals put up a merry race to en ter the select 400" hitters, who at tained fame in the National League, but missed the coveted goal by one point. Hornsby's final average was 39s.
 Sets Worlds Record
 Jay Kirks, first baseman of the Louisville American Association, es- tablished a new worlds mark for hits in one season, breaking the record held by l.. A. Miller of Oakland last season. Kirks made his 282nd hit as the curtain rang down and beat the mark of the Pacific Coast slugger by two hits, who played in 199 games, while Kirks played in only 16S games.
 The base-stealing honors in the American League were captured by George Sisler of St. Louis. who swiped 32 bases, while Frisch of the New York Giants with 47, carried off the prize in the National League. In the American Association, Baird of Indianapolis finished far ahead with 72 thefts .t4
 George Kelly of the Giants carried off the home-run honors in the Ma tional League with 23 circuit drives, while Bunny Brief of Kansas City leads the American Association with 42 homers.