Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-10
BABE RUTH EQUALS
HIS WORLDS RECORD
Home Run Demon Drives His
Total Up to Fifty-Four
Circuit CIouts.

| fsv Associated Press to Every Evening
/ Chicago. Sept. 10.--with more than
| three weeks of the 1921 major league
/ season remaining. Babe Ruth has
eaualled his 1920 home run record,
having scored six in the past ten days,
and bids fair to set a new worlds
record for circuit drives. Ruth's saith
homer was scored off Naylor of the
Athletics yesterday, with one man on
base. His last three homers in 1920
were also off Philadelphia pitchers.
| the saith of last season coming on
September % The big southpaw slug
| er also increased his total base record
| TO 393, the result of 176 hits. Besides
his homers he has made 80 doubles and
IL triples.
A quartet of American League slug
gers is staging one of the greatest
batting races since the time when
Napoleon Lajoie. of Cleveland. and Ty
Cobb, of the Tigers. fought it out for
the league leadership. with only a
fraction of a point separating them
at the end of the season.
| Harry Heilman and Ty Cobb, the
Detroit stars. are holding first and
second positions as the final stretch
Is WITH NiS.tiB tfit 81
Louis idol and last years champion,
putting on an attack which has car
ried him into fourth place ahead of
Iris Speaker. leader of the worlds
champions, and which threatens to
carry him TO the top again.
During the past two weeks Sisler
has hit for an average of just below
500, having cracked out 50 hits in 90
times at bat. He is just four points
behind Babe Ruth, of the Yankees,
who is in third place. Heilman's aver
age is .40s, with Cobb trailing with
$50. Ruth is hitting the pill for .3s3.
while Ssler is hitting .37s. Speaker.
who was tied with the st. Louis star
a week ago. is fifth with $50.
s. Harris, of Washington, by steal
ing one base, has brought his record
for the season to 90 thefts. Other
leading batters:
Tobin, St. Louis. .3s1; Jacobson, St.
Louis, .344; Neach. Detroit, .343: +.
Collins, Chicago. sac: Williams. St
Louis. .S41; Strunk. Chicago. $40.
Rogers Hornsby, the St Louis star,
who last year led the National League
in batting with an average of $40,
for the season, promises to repeat this
season. He is the only regular in
the league. hitting above the 400 mark,
his latest average showing him travel
ing at .406 clip.
George Cutshaw. the veteran second
sacker of the Pirates, is Hornsby's
closest rival. with an average of $50,
while Walton Cruise, of Boston, is
two points behind the Pittsburg star
with an average of .34s. Jack Four
nier, another Cardinal, has tied Ed
Roush, of Cincinnati, who topped, the
National League batters in 1917 and
1913. They are hitting .347.
Hornsby is safety out in front in
total bases. his z10 hits giving him a
total of 1913 bases. His hits include |
20 honlers. the latter being just two |
behind George Kelley, of the Giants. |
who is leading with %.
Frank F'risch. of the Giants, added !
four bases TO his string of stolen bases /
and is showing the way to the base |
stealers with AZ thefts.
Other leading batters.
McHenry, St. Louis, .344; Mann, St |
Louis, BAL: Frisch, New York, 1872 |
E. Smith. New York. $50; Meusel, |
New York. 329: c. Williams, Phila- |
delphia. .32s; Johnston. Brooklyn,
.s24: Griffith. Brooklyn. .324; Bigbee.
Pittsburg. 1922.