Great Falls tribune., 1921-12-20
SEASON Of 1921
WILL 60 DOWN IN
BATTING ANNALS
High Score and Slugging
Records of Former Years
Are Wiped Out. !.
BY I. e. SANBORN
sseeial Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune


the dope on suggests for the season,
even the new records of the previous
campaign being wiped out in both ma
jor leagues. and in all departments.
The abolition of all freak pitching
except the spitball in 1920 enabled the
batsmen to shatter all modern records
in the matter Of the offensive game,
but the addition of the peppery pill,
with which the club owners tried to
add more life to their game, wiped out
everything except the records establish
ed back in the days when pitchers were
pitchers and not throwers.
Old Standards Slide
For more than two decades the
standard by which slugging bees have
been compared was On a basis of Is
or more hits in g. nine inning game,
while the high score dope in the matter
of runs has been IL or more by one
team. This year there have been SO
many suggests and high scoring bees
that the old system had to be abolish
ed. Fifteen hits in one game by team
became of more than daily occurrence,
while a dozen runs on side were too
frequent to excite comment. In fact,
there were more games in 1921 in
which one team registered more than
20 hits than there used to be games
in which 15 sWats were rung up on
side.
Pirates Comb Is BingIes
The high water mark for the season
was made by Pittsburgh with 25 hits
off quartet of Boston Brave pitchers
last June. That was one better than
the American league record of "a hits
by the Yankees off three of the Mack
men in September. Twenty hits or
more were made by team in nearly
80 major league games this year.
The modern record for runs scored
was made by the White Sox and De-
troit at Comiskey park on September 8,
when a grand total of 35 talhes was
recorded officially. The 1921 dope on
swatfests follows:
NATIONAL LEAGUE
twenty-five Hits
June S+Pittsburgh, off McQuillan,
Braxton, Watson, Morgan (Boston).
Twenty-three Hits
July 20-Chicago, off Smith, Belts
philadelphia.
August 31-st. Louis. off Winters,
Belts (Philadelphia).
Twenty-Five Hits
May 3O-Pittsburgh, off York,
Cheeves (Chicago).
June 12-Chicago, off McQuillan.
Fillingim. Braxton, Watson (Boston).
June 1S-Boston, off Walker, Sher-
del, Goodwin, Riviere (St. Louis).
Twenty-one Hits
May 11-Chicago, off Ring, Baum
gartner (PhiIadelphia).
August 12-Pitssburgh, off Cheeves,
York, Jones (Chicago).
September 3-Boston, off Smith,
Sedgwick (Philadelphial.
September 14-Chicago, off Hubbell,
Belts (Philadelphia).
Twenty Hits
July 7-St. Louis, off Smith (Phila-
delphia).
August 19-Pittsburgh, off Meadows,
Belts (Philadelphia)
September 11-New York, off Mitch
ell. Miljus, Smith, Schupp (Brooklyn).
October 1-Philadelphia, off Douglas
New York;.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Twenty-four Hits
September 1O-New York, off Hasty,
Keefe, Freeman (Philadelphia).
Twenty-three Hits
April 2s-Cleveland. off Leonard.
Cole (Detroit).
twenty-five Hits
July o1-Cleveland. off Mays. Quinn,
Collins New York;.
September 9-Chicago, off Suther-
land, Holling. Leonard (Detroit).
August 31-New York, off Zachary,
Courtney (Washington).
Twenty Hits
Nav S-Cleveland. off Kerr, Daven-
port, Wilkinson (Chicagol.
May 16-Detroit, off Shaw, Schacht,
Courtney (Washington).
July 24-Washington, off Dauss.
Parks, Cole (Detroit).
August 17-Cleveland. off Moore,
Harris, Freeman. Naylor tPhiladel-
August 1a-Chicago, OF Collins.
Quinn, Piercy, Ferguson New York;
August 3O-St. Louis, off Russell
Michaelson, Hodge (Chi-
cago).
September 9-Detroit, off Fenner,
Kerr, Hodge (Chicago)
September 25-New York. off Cald-
we'll. Mails, Clark (Cleveland).
HIGH SCORES
National League
Nav 11-Chicagc, 10; Philadelphia, s.
June o1--St. Louis. II: Chicago. 5.
June 25-New York. II: Philadel-
phia, 4.
American League
April 2S-Cleveland, IS: Detroit, 5.
May S-Cleveland, II: Chicago, 8.
May S-Cleveland, II: Chicago. 8.
May 16-Detroit, II; Washington, II.
July 21-Cleveland. II; New York, 8.
July 20-Detroit, 1S: Philadelphia. 6.
August 31-New York. II: Washing
ION, 8.
September o-Chicago, 20: Detroit.
l5.
September 1O-New York. 10; Phila-
lelphia, 3.
lelphia. 3.
September 24-Chicago, IS; Phila-
lelphia, /.
September 25-New York, 81: Cleve-
and, Z.
CHAMPION