The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-06
20 BATSMEN HIT
300 IN NATIONAL
Hornsby Tops Score of
Players in Coveted
Glass

IP.'t'iH' H'dh'd ny rogers lIOrnsby
OF the Cardinals, hit In the 800 class
IN the National league during the
season OF 1870, according to the Of
'icl'' batunB average made public
today
HornsNy captured the batting
| championship Of the circuit with an
average Of .37O, a mark that has
J Dccu beaten but four times s,ncc
| 1900. and cxcelled only 10 times
over "A stretch Of 40 years during
which batting championship re-
cords have been kept
Tho battling average OF the new
! champion topped that OF Fred Nich-
olson, Of ihe Pirates. by 10 points
ana iiornshy took part in l49 games.
SIX less than his team played. In
| the first 10 with iIornsby are Ross
Young, New York, with .85l: ed
ROusch, Cincinnati, with .J39 .
smith. 81. Louis, .332, Zach Wheat,
| brooklyn, .32S. Eddie Eayrcs Bus-
ton, 1928. Fred Williams. Philadcl-
phia, 1926, Milton Stock, st. Louis
3l3. and Charley Hollocher. chi
cago. .Sl9. OF the first 20 bats
men, all OF whom hit 800 or bet
ter. seven played IN less than one
hundred games, which leaves l3
batsmen who proved their right to
c,,st.,a,,,I,, ,.o ~ " D"e.''e
az i'' ea''e' VI "'o'e'
,arus Ica" Averages.
Tho batting strength OF tho 81.
Sou'S Carn'ila's Is SHOWN IN the
,'aui averages Inc cards led thelf
rI'ais as teaHh hiulhs 'zo9, an
ehcep'iohhiy tine average. ana part
vi inc answer ls SHOWN IN the nst
oi the charmod twenty In which
fiornsby Smith, stock and four-
nier appear
Iho champion brooklyn Dodgers
also had four cinsistent 300 hitters
last season in Wheat. Honey, Grimes
and Myers, and Brooklyn finished
second I'm team batting with .277.
Max Carey. tho fleet Pirate out.
fielder. led his league once again i'm
s,olnn hnsas nilforinr 81 tesai M 40
r,ro,, has Iont, hacn ,he hos, has,
,nnn.r A. bi, toa,,,,o
'"u, ~ "'s 'Saeu., ,, 40. o,s
n'Nuc NV '"oe' ,'.'' 80
an" a,so 'eaus III two-oaso mus win
a. Miitoh STOCK IL .ne ieau'ns one
nhse hHter' win ny singles. ny
Myers leads in three-base hits, win
~, and Cy williams occupies home
run honors with IL home runs.
hitters with 32s total bases, for
percentage of $50.
Two players-Rogers uornsby. OF
81 I.ouis and Ross Younp of New
YORK k~Ngarnerca moro han two
hnnd,o5 49, as ,hair soason's nov.
49,, -, Sa,,on.i iaa,,,,a ro,.
,'on' my 40 .sa.'o' ~ ,,asus oaa o"
ao.s naVe teap,u n,o,e "..I per ry,ut'
soh IMAM has IiorhS"S' WI" ","N
with 243 hits during the season OF
1877.
Made Most SCOrcs.
George Burns, of New York. leads
the run, scorers with 115 runs. Not
since 1911, when James Shcckard, OF
chicago, tailied ~ runs mas any
player reached TINS hish marx IN
runs scored.
George Cutshaw' OF flttsburgh' 10
the leading sacrifice hitter. with
thlrty-seven sacrifice hits.
Five players engaged In every
game which their club played. as
follows: George Kelly, New YORK:
James johnston, Brooklyn, ana Mil
ton stock st. Louis. 1855 games each;
Louis Duncan Cincinnati, 154 and
Norman Boeekel, Boston SO games,
Milton stock went to the bat the
most times, 6S9.
WV t''Ny h'''N ''''' VI
hitting safely in ten or more con-
secUIve games, with Eddie Roush.
OF Cincinnati, the leader. Roush on
August q began streak OF safe
hitting that endured Tor twenty
seven successive contests and yield |
ed forty-s.S hits In ia times at bat |
til september 22, when Charles |
Adams. of Pittsburgh, stopped |
Roush.
Six Hits In Row.
David Bancroft, OF New York, was |
the only player that got six hits In
six times at bat In one game This
Bancroft did on June 2s, against
Philadelphia.
Eleven players garncred five hits
In game. one player. Ross Young
OF New York, performing the feat
twice. Walter Maranville OF Boston:
Earl Smith. George Burns and Ross
Dung, OF New York; David Robert
son, of Chicago. william South
worth OF Pittsburgh and Clifton
lleathCote. of ST. Louis. were the
other men who made five hits In as
many times at bat.