Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-21
HARRY HE|LMANN
LEADS IN AMERICAN
George n. Ruth Makes Greatest
Individual Mark OF Year
With So homers.
n, Asroclated ireup ~ WV, l'venIns

", Associated Press ,o fvcrN Evening
ilattlng ~ the most sensational
character featured the games of tho
American League throughout the sea
mnn Phenomenal noldins plays were
a natural sequence to the heavy hit
tina and fast and clever base running
on hi, aud run plays was the order ~
che daN, The at ~ base stealing.
however was almost discontinued h
helms obvious that to take two bases
~ more un probable forthcoming
hN was better strategy Cot the runner
,hnn to risk heirn cut down on an at
tempt tn steal
No ipss than i2.b2S safe hits were
made ln eie Hames ~ which 2.iac
we're two hansers. eps for three bases
and the hitherto unprecedented num-
hvf uf az Wcrc home runs They
aNVrhEpd q little more than 20 To the
same, uf which more than ave were
iof extra bases.
Tho nelrot club led the sluEgers
with nn average of aiG Tor the sea son
followed by Cleveland with SOS St.
iouln 500, and tho champion New
York Yankees With an even .aoO
The chnmrionn led by "Rabe" Ruth.
rrsi M total hnses. 81 Louis gather
"a lua triples. ana Detroit 100 while
the Cleveland indiana whalcd S55 two
haHu hits Tho eN.champions also
vunNcd o.. bases on halls from the
nervous pitchers New York hcine
awarded AS ana Detroit bSg
The rroatust individual record oi
thu Nvar attracting more interest than
An,ihlne that has heretofore occurred
w baseball was IN, performance Of
upurse ~. Ruth, who broke his own
itpufd fur home runs 10y making 90
safe blows that were good for the
wound trln. IN three successive sea.
snns Ruth has raised the record of 20
homo runH made in iSaA. FIRST TO 90
then to "a and now 10 90
Harry y lieilmann Detroit out
fielder. beat out Manager cobb by Ave
points for the league leadership In
lAitlnr with record ~ Saa Hell.
mann made eai hits in iaa games. for
total vt a6h hnEcs Forty.three oi
hts satellites were for two bases. n
were triples and 90 were home runs
ll'ilmnn scured "a runs and was re.
sllnnsihr fnr iaO more 81 the Tigers
total ~ $50 tic II credited In IN,
" ", q column with iag runs, hu,
these include hts 10 homors licilmanr
lph every one IN sending runs acro-.
ihp plhis except Ruth who was credit
rd With ifo, of which 90 were his own
four .hasc blows Ruth counted iT1
Times =, 7, Tnhin, -. Louis bcinr
second with ia2, sislur third. with 1875
ana tuhh fourth with i2-
Mannr,r frls speaker made b2 two.
iasu hits. Ruth a. iicilman and his
tpammatp " ~ Neach. a. each. and
" Meusul New York 90. Howard
fhnnks Washington. drove out is
thtcu hnrrors, Tnhin and Slsler ~
ehrh. hnd Cobb. Ruth and n. Meusel
~ each AZ stated above. Ruth 90.
tnhiishrd d now rocord fnr home run,
with hn, Mvusel and " ". Williams
ti iouls heinz tied for second place
with "a each while Clarence Walker
~ Philadelphia was third with %
Little attention wns raid Co stealing
haH's and the sacrifice was not used
~ frequently az former years 10,
the same reason that prohibited has,
s'raiinr Sisler pllfcrod 20 bases
i,ice at, and cobb 22 W. a wamhs.
sannH, Cleveland laid down AZ sacrl.
nvrs owen Bush. Detroit Washington
az MClnnis Boston. 90 and Muliran
Chicago. a.