Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-11
been held by Bill Brown, of the Louis Yilles. in 1893.

been held by Bill Brown, of the LouiS- villes, in 1893.
 Max Carey, of the Pirates, snared il flies in centre field on July 25.
 George Kelly did three times last season what Babe Ruth has yet to do for the Yankees home run with every base occupied.
 Babe Ruth broke another major record, when he garnered 45 doubles, Is triples and 59 home runs, for to- tai of 11S extra base hits. Ruth broke still another batting record this sea- son, when the ciouting Bambino, who got 204 hits, flashed a total bases on hits of 456. This stands as the best major league record for all time.
 George Whitted, of the Pirates, was the only player to score runs in one game, while runs in a game were scored twelve times, two players, Rog- CTS Hornsby and Billy Southworth, turning this trick twice.
 Harry Heilmann, of the Tigers and Johnny Tobin, of the Browns, are in a tie for the most hits, getting 225 apiece.
 The Pirates returned an odd box score for their hitting in the game of May 27. The team got hits, one for each player in the line up.
 Two hundred and forty four players took part in the contests staged by the eight American League clubs during the campaign just closed. l Ed Konetchy got hits in as many 1 times at bat This is the longest streak of consecutive hitting in the National League this year. ] Babe Ruth tops the sluggers with | 59 home runs.
 George Sisler, of the Browns, showed the way along the base paths witf o4 stolen bases. &24
 Iris Speaker, of the Indians hit thu most two-base hits, 51, and Johnn, | Tobin, of the Browns, leads in three. base hits, with 1s.
 Hornsby's batting mark of .398 i! the highest percentage attained by ; National League batsman since 1899 when Big Ed" Delhanty, of the Phil lies, led the National League with batting average of .40S.
 Since the beginning of the Nation al League, away back in 1876, only tel league leading hitters have surpasse, Horns5y's batting percentage for tn season just ended.
 Sam Rice, of the Senators, an,
 Harry Heilmann, of the Tigers, pro
 duced the longest streak of safe h.t
 liHS i'll consecutive games, gong
 games each.
 The leading three base hitters in tn
 National League are: Rogers Horns
 by, IS; Ray Powell, Is; Ross Young
 IT; Frank Frisch, r; Carson Bigbee
 Is; Charles Grimm, Is; George Mai
 sel IS; Dave Bancroft, fl; and Jim
 my Johnston. IA.
 [ The Senators played the longes t game in the majors this year, engag 3 ing the Browns in contest for 19 in
 nings.
 2 The Washington Senators staged th
 longest winning streak of the seasor ] copping II games in TOW. Joe "Goldie" Rapp, of the Philliel : produced the longest streak of saf g hitting in consecutive games when :. hit safely in A games in a row. [ The ten leaders of three baggers 1 the American League arc: Johnny To bin, 1S; George Sisler, Bob Meusel, T ,, Cobb and Howard Shanks are in a ii e at IT apiece; Babe Ruth, Is; Tri Speaker, 1O; and Bill Jacobson, Sal l Rice, Larry Gardner and Jim Dykes ar e tied with 13 each.
 = The ten leaders in two-base hits
 the American League are as fol t lows: Iris Speaker, d; Harry Hei 6 mann, 45; Babe" Ruth, 43; Bob Veacl v and Sam Rice, 40; George Sisler an t Bob Meusel, 39 each; ny Cobb, Je d. Sewen and Bill Jacobson have 37 eac