Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-05
HOrnSby Sets Pace
for Heavy HitterS
in National League
Card Star PrOUeS Right to
SiUdt HOnOrs-Carey High
in Base TkeftS.

Twenty players, headed by Rogers
Hornsby, OF the Cardinals. hit in the 800
class IN the National League during the
season Of 1920, according to the official
batting averages made public today.
Hornsby captured the batting cham-
pionship Of his circuit with an average
II $40, mark that has been beaten but
four times since 1900 and eIceled only
nineteen times over a stretch Of forty
Ave years. during which batting cham
piOnship records have been kept.
The batting average OF the new cham
pion topped that of Fred Nicholson. Of
the Pirates by ten points and Hornsby
took part I'm 149 games. six less than his
team played. In the first ten with Horns
by are Ross Young. New York, with -S31
Ed Roush Cincinnati, with $50 Smith,
St Louis. 1872 Zach Wheat Brooklyn,
32S; Eddie Eayres, Boston, 32S Fred
Williams, Philadelphia, 1925; Milton
Stock, st. Louis, $40, and Charlie Hol-
locher, Chicago. .319. OF the first twenty
batsmen, all Of whom hit 300 or better
seven played In less than one hundred
games, which leaves thirteen batsmen
who proved their right to be elassed as
300 hitters by batting consistently In
100 games or more
CARDS LEAD IN
TEAM BATTING.
The batting strength Of the st. Louis
cardinals Is SHOWN III the tenn averages.
The Cards led their rivals as a team,
hitting .2S9, an exceptionally fine average,
and part of the answer is shown In the
list OF the charmed twenty" In which
Hornsby, Smith, Stock and Fourier ap-
pear.
The champion Brooklyn Dodgers also
had four consistent 800 hitterg last
season In Wheat, Honey, Grimes and
Myers, and Brooklyn finished second IN
team batting with PIT.
led his league once again In stolen
bases pilfering a total Of ffty-two. Ca
rey has long been the best baserunncf
In his league
Hornsby made the most hits. 31s, and
also leads In two-base hits with forty
four. Milton Stock is the leading one
base hitter, with 40 singles. by Myers
leads in three base hits, with twenty two.
and Cy Williams occupies home-run hon
Ors with fifteen home runs
Rogers Hornsby leads the long HIT
tiers with 800 total bases, for a percent
age of $50.
Two players-Rogers Hornsby of st.
Louis and Ross Young of New York
seasons portion. Only thirteen National
League batters have reaped more hits
per season than has Hornsby with Willie
Keller OF Baltimore the leader, with
243 hits during the season Of 1891.
BURNS GETS
MUST HUNS.
George Burns of New York leads the
run-seorers with 115 runs. Not since
1911. when James Sheckard of Chicago,
tailed 121 runs, has any player reached
this high mark in runs scored.
George Cutshaw of Pittsburgh is the
leading sacrifice hitter, with thirty seven
sacrifice hits.
There were forty-nine cases of hit
ting safely in ten or more consecutive
games, with Eddie Roush of Cincinnati
the leader. Roush on Aug. 81 began
streak Of safe hitting that endured for
twenty seven successive contests and
yielded forty-six hits in ia times at bat
till Sept. %, when Charles Adams of
Pittsburgh stopped Roush.
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 %, against Philadelphia.
st. Louis leads In club hitting with
percentage of .2S9: made the most hits,
1859; the greatest number Of total bases,
2,115; most singles, 1928, and got the
greatest number Of two-base hits, 23S
Brooklyn made the most three base hits,
90, and Phila delphia batted out the great
test number >of home runs, Ga.
New York leads in scoring, with $50
runs, and Pittsburgh is the leading base
stealing club, with 1S1 stolen bases.