The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-05
ROGERS HORNSBYT NATIONAL bATSMAN.
Official Averages for 1920 Released at Chicago Give
 Interesting Figures.

CHICAGO. Jan 5.-The leading National League batsman for 1929 was Rogers HornsHy, of the St Louis Club, according to official bat ting averages of National League players released for publication to- day.
 Honrsby engaged in 149 games, six less than his club played and com piled the splendid batting average of .370. Of the forty five champion oltsmen of the National League since it's organization. but nineteen nave finished with higher mark thal Hornsby, Hugh Duffy turning in the highest percentage when he hit for .43S ill 1894
 Hornsby's mark of .37O has been excelled but four times since 1909, when Hans Wagner hit the year for .3S0; the following year when Jesse Burkett touched .3S2; again in 19j5 when Cy Seymour had BIT and in 1912 when Henry Zimmerman led with .372.
 Hornsby made the most hits, 2lS. and also leads in two-base hits, with A. Milton St, ~l1 is the elading one base hitter wlth ITO singles; fly Myers leads in threebase hits, with 22, and Cy Williams occupies home run honOrs with 15 home runs.
 Rogers Hornsby leads the long hitters with 329 total bases. for d percentage of .559.
 Two players, Rogers Hornsby of St. Louis and Ross Young of New York, Gamered more than two hund red hits as their seasons portion Only thirteen National League bat tcrs have reaped more hits per seq son than Hornsby with Willie Keeler of Baltimore the leader, with 2i3 hits during the season of 1S97.i
 George Burns of New York leads the scorers with 115 runs Not since 1911 when James Shechard of Chica- go tailed 121 runs, has any player reached this high mark in runs scored
 Max. Carey of Pittsburgh, leads the runners along the base paths with 52 stolen bases.
 George Cutshaw. of Pittsburgh. is the leading sacrifice hitter with 57 sacrifice hits
 Five players engaged with the;r clubs in every game played as fol- lows: George Kelly. New York; James Johnson, Brooklyn, and Milton Stock, St Louis, with 155 games each; Louis Duncan, Cincinnati, 15t. and Norman Boackel, Boston, 153 games.
 Milton Stock went to the bat the most times. G39
 There were forty nine cases of hit ting safely in ten or more consecu- tive games, with Eddie Roush of Cincinnati the leader Roush on August 2 began streak of safety hitting that endured for twenty scv- on successive contests and yielded 46 hits in 114 times at the bat till September 22 when Charles Adams of Pittsburgh stopped Roush.
 David Bancroft of New York was the only player who got six hits in six times at the bat in one game. This Bancroft did on June 2S against Pittsburgh
 Eleven players garnered five hHs in one game, one player. Ross Young of New York, performing the feat twice. Walter Maranville of Boston. Earl Smith, George Burns and Ross Young of New York David Rober.- son of Chicago, William Southworth of Pittsburgh, and Clifton HeathcotC of St Louis were the other men who made five hits in as many times al the bal.
 Eisht players taller four rons dur ing enc game in the present season. viz: Fred Williams and Emil Musal of Philadelphia, Charles Hoilochcr and George Paskcrt of Chicago. George Cutshaw of Pittsburgh. Ilenry Groh, Of Cincinnati. Jaques Founies of s. Louis and Peter Kildufr el Brooklyn.
 There were one hundred and six ahut9nts scored last season. the clubs i being shut out as follows: Chicago. six lmes; Boston, ten times: Brook. 1 lyn. ST. Louis and Philadelphia, twelve times each; New York, thi- teen times; Pittsburgh, seventeen times. and Cincinnati twenty four i times
 St Louis leads in club batting with a percentage of .2S9; made the mos, hits l,5S9; the greatest number O, total bases. 2115; most singles. 1928 end aot the greatest number of two base hits. 23S. Brooklyn made the most three-base hits go. and Philadef phia baHed out the greatest namba. of home runs. GA.
 New York leads in scoring. wlh GS2 rlu@ and Pittsburgh is the lead ing base stealing club with 18l stol cn b8e.s
 Chicago leads in sacrifice his wbn -2o
 Two hundred and thirty seven play