The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-10

Two hundred ana toTtN-iour pay
ors took part In the contests staged
by the eight American league clubs
surire the campaign just closed. Of
this great number, Harry Heilmann
Of the Tigers was returned the vic
,or after the closest and most won
srfu race for leading batting hon
ors .r an the history Of major base-
baU. Heilmann flashed past the
vTre the scautest Of margins ahead
of Ty cobb. his manager, the actual
Cgures brought out To the fourth
decimal reading. lehman, 1904;
those for Cobb showing 1901 The
r... gIst ended was even closer than
tbat never TO be forgotten batting
rtc, NJ 1910 when Cobb dashed
ahead ot Nap Lajoie by almost one
percentage point
r., cobb. the Peach OF Georgia"
actually got the honors, when II is
considered that Ty after rounding
ont his seventeenth consecutive
year with the Tigers, finished with
a batting mark OF .390, exactly 20
rcr.,utage points higher than his
lf,nmp batting percentage of $40.
uBlbo" Ruth Of the Yankees set a
new American league run scoring
record for a season by tallying the
enormous total of i12 runs Ruth
broke his own record, established
last year.
Harry Hcilmann OF the Tigers and
Johnny Tobin OF the Browns are in
A tie for the most hits, getting 25J
apiece.
Babe Ruth tops the sluggers with
90 home runs
George SisIer of the Browns
showed the way along the base paths
with "a stolen bases.
Trs Speaker Of the Indians hit the
most twO-hase hits, 81, aud Johnny
Tohin ~ the Browns leads in three
base hits, with 10.
Babe Ruth broke another major
record when he garnered 43 doubles.
10 triples and so home runs, for a
total uf 11S extra base hits. Ruth
broke still another batting record
This season, when the Clouiiug
BamUluo, who got 20i hits, flashed
a total bases on hits of i56. This
stands as the best MAJOR league rec
ord for all time.
johnny Tobin of the Browns went
10 the bat the most times, SO. This
creates new major record for
times at bat in "A season. The former
record had been held by Bill Brown
Of the Louisvilles. in 1893.
jim Dykes of the Athletics played
the most games, 1855, all his club en-
gagged in. The following players also
engaged In every contest their club
played. Everett Scott, OF the Red
SoY, l54. Joe Sewell, Of the Indians,
l54, Earl Sheely OF the White SOY,
l5i, Howard Shanks and Stanley
Harris of the Senators, l5i each,
Aaron Ward and Walter Pipp, OF
the Yankees, l52 apiece.
Everett Scott Of the Red Sox, who
concluded his sixth consecutive year
without missing a confess his club
played. has played S32 games In a
row for the Rcd Sox without a miss.
scotty began his prodigious streak
on June 20, 1915.
The ten leaders in two-base hits
follow; iris Speaker. 81, Harry
Heilmann, 45, Babe" Ruth, 43, BOB
NeaCh and Sam Rice, 40 apiece;
George Sisler and Bob Meuscl, 80
each. Ty Cobb, Joe Sewell and Bill
Jacobson have 81 each.
The ten leaders OF three-baggers
are, Johnny Tobin, 10, George Sis
Ter, Bob Meusel, Ty Cobb and How
aud Shanks are in tie at II
apiece Babe Ruth, IS; iris
Speaker ] 8, and Bill Jacobson, Sam
hce, Larry Gardner and Jim Dykes
are ted with 10 each.
Same Rice Of the Senators and
Harry Heilmann of the Tigers pro-
duced the longest streak of safe hit
ting IN consecutive games, going 20
games each.
Johnny Tobin OF the Browns
flashed the longest streak of scoring
runs I'm successive contests getting
20 runs in II straight games,
bnly one player garnCrod six hits
IN one game I'm the majors this year.
rms was George Sisler OF the
Browns
Players maced four hits in one
game l43 times in the season Just
ended, the leaders for each club
uelng. John Tohiu OF the Browns,
10 times; Ty Cobb of the Tigers, );
Sam Rice Of the Senators, 8; Derrill
IFdut of the Red SoX. Iris Speaker
ana CHARLEY Jameson OF the Indi-
ans, ( times apiece; Amos Strunk
ana I'd Mull!gan OF the White Sox;
Walter Schang and Bob Meusel OF
NE Yankees, Iawton witt and Ralph
Itfklns, 3 times each.
George Staler Of the Browns was
lhe only player to steal four baees
IN one game.
These players scored five runs I'm
game: Bill VAN mbsEanss Of the
Indians; Earl Sheely of the White
SoN, and George Sisler Of the
browns.
Four runs scored by a player in
one game were scored 25 times.
lhese players turned the trick
tS"iee; Charley Jameson. Elmer
Smllh. Ernie johnson, Luzerne Blue,
BOD Meusei, George Sisler and Ken
nelh Williams. Ty Cobb scored four
times.
I he Senators played the longest