The New York herald., 1922-07-09
SISTERS RECORD IS
LEADER IN MAJORS
Star of Browns Is Hitting for
.480 and Holds Many
Other Honors..
HORNsBFS GOING AT 800
Cardinals Clouter First Ma
tional Lacquer to Land
100 Safeties.
HORNsBx' GOING AT 800

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Georgs ssler- of the Browns continues
to hold most Of, the honors in the
American League, for the records show
the Brownie in the van among the
hitters. with percentage OF .430, scor-
ing the greatest number Of runs
seventy-three polling out the most hits.
1873. and showing the way along the
base paths with twenty-seven stolen
| bases. Kenneth Williams Of the Browns
. tops the sluggers with twenty home
runs. while Dave Danforth OF the
Browns heads the hurlers with five vic
tories and one defeat for a pitching per-
| centage OF .S33. "f
George sisler of the Browns, the peer
less hitter OF the johnson circuit. after
enjoying another healthy batting streak,
quit Juiy'4 to Charley Robertson. Dur.
T ing this streak, which endured twelve
straight games. sisler smote twenty
| two safeties In fifty-two batting tries
for a percentage Of .423. Sisler earlier
in the season had streaks OF sixteen and
eleven games respectively.
Speaker Gets HIT No. 2,5Q0. q
Iris Speaker. manager OF. the Clsve-
land Indians. Saving his sixteenth con-
secutive year as a player in the Amer
| lean League, ran his to- al number Of
hits up to 2500 when Speaker rammed
one Of Iii Stoner's. serves on July 4.
Lawton Witt Of the Yankees had hit
safely In. his last ten games when Bob
17asty stopped him on July T.. While
hitting them Witt snashe out seven
teen hits in. forty-three attempts for a
percentage Of .s95.
Bob Jona. OF the Tigers after hitting
all sorts OF hu'iing IN his last ten games
was stopped July 8 by Ted Blankenship.
During his period of hitting. them Jones
punched out sixteen safeties in forty
four tries for a mark Of 1854.
Ty Cobb. now upon his eighteenth
consecutive year as a player. enjoys the
highest lifetime batting percentage of
any player In the history Of the game.
. When the curtain rang down on last
seasons play and the only Tyrus notched
lifetime hitting percentage Of .371 the
experts all looked for a. steady decline
from this mark wero Cobb to continue
playing. Ty certainly is doing the latter,
as his batting mark of 1877 for the cur
rent year attests. but IN place of dimip-
ishing his life batting mark. Cobb to
date has boosted his batting average for
eighteen years point, or UP to .372
During his career Of eighteen years with
the Tigers Cobb has taken part In 2,22s
games, went to the bat B469 times, So
cured 3147 hits, for. a. 0s' total bases,
for the greatest of all lifetime hitting
percentages of .S72.s Ty also stole so7
| bases. -, 3,
MeuseI Drives for Cycle.
Bob Meusel OF tho Yankees on July 8
nit for the cycle against Fred Heimach
and Jim Sullivan. Meusei in five batting
tries hin a single. a double. a triple and
a home run for a total of ten bases.
Clarence Walker, OF the Athletics set
the seasons record by polling four home
runs In four successive times at the bat
trips off the Yankees pitchers.
The st. Louis Browns are the first
major club to hammer out fifty home
runs this year when John ,Tobin, pinch
hitting for Chick Shorten on June 3O
hit for the circuit Off Elam Van Glider
1T made the even fiftieth home run for
the league leading Browns
The Cardinals, like the Browns, seem
to occupy most Of the leading positions
IN their company. for Rogers Hornsby
tops the hitters with percentage of
800. lends the run scorers with sixty
six tallies, secured the greatest number
OF hits, ia, and Rogers also heads the
sluggers with twenty homo runs, vieing
for the honor of leading major league
slugger Max Carey OF the Pirates
shows the way along the base paths
with twenty stolen bases, and Walter
Ruether of the Dodgers leads the hurlers
with fourteen victories and four defeats
for pitching percentage of .77s.
Four Have Passed 100 Mark.
Carson Bigbee OF the Pirates. Jimmie
Johnston Of the Dodgers and Jake Dau-
bert OF the Reds. besides Rogers
Hornsby. are the National LeaKliers with
records of 100 hits this year. Johnston
to date has poled 105 hits, Bigbee 104
and Daubert 1o3 hits. Johnston IL on
an unbroken hitting streak in his last
twelve gamos Jimmie sent ont seventeen
safe ones in forty-eight trials for mark
|of 1874.
Jack Smith. OF the Cardinals after
IEcoring eleven runs In seven games in a
row. quit June 30 to the Pirates. \
Rogers Hornsby nf the Cardinals was
|the first National Lacquer to secure 100
hits this season.. Hornsby has per-
Horned this stunt for the last three
|years straight, while In 1919 the honor
fell to Zack Wheat OF the Dodgers. It
was on June 30 that Hornsby sent out
his century hit last year; he got his
Tooth safe lick on June 25, while the
|preyious season Rogers flashed his Tooth
|hlt on June 80.
Rogers Hornsby OF the Cardinals, after
scoring nine runs In five games In a row,
|Quit July to the Reds. ~. -...-
George Harper Of the Reds, after hit
ting safely hts iast~twelve games, Quit
July to the left/handed shoots of Bill
|SherdeI. While getting his hits Harper
punched out twenty hits In fffty-two
batting tries for batting fgtire Of 1886
land scored eleven runs.
Jake Daubert of the Reds had taflied
|nine runs In six successive games when
the Cardinals halted Jake on July O..
Smiths spree In stopped.
Jack Smith of the Cardinals, after
batting spree lasting for eleven straight
contests, quit July l. to trio OF Pitts
|burgh hur)srs-- During his period OF
|hitting Jack smote twenty-four hits in
|forty-eight trials for an even 500 aver
|age.
Pat Duncan OF the Reds. after enioyl
ing n streak OF hitting through eleven
games ran afoul Jess Haines, who ap-
piled the brakes on July 3. During his
stretch OF hitting them Pat sent out
|srmercen safeties In forty-four ATTEMPTS
|for mark OF .432.
Arnold Statz OF the Cubs is the first
National Lacquer TO 60 to the bat 900
Hines this season. Statz taking his triple
hundred batting Try on July . against
Moses Yellowhorsc
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