The Washington herald., 1922-06-27
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1t has remained for st. Louis to
present the two greatest ball play
ers any single city ever offered the
fantical hordes. No one town has
ever had, in the same season, two
such eminent contributors to the
baseball art as George Sisler and
Rogers Hornsby. When it comes to
doubling up in the way of talent,
the zenith city of the Ozarkian knobs
is elected by a landslide.
Detroit once had Cobb and Craw-
ford. Detroit now has Cobb and
Heilman. Cobb could match either
st. Louis star. but the Detroit COM
bination falls shy.
Why all this greatness? S!sler
has proved TO be a great hitter, a
star first baseman, a fine pitcher, a
fine outfielder. Hornsby. in addi-
ton to being one of the great bats
men of the game, has starred at
second. short and third. Between
them they have covered every po-
sition n the team, save that
adorned by the catcher's mask and
the protecting shin guards. And
both are clean and decent, suffer-
ing in no sense from an overflow
OF temperament.
On the Way Up.
Sisler and Hornsby each have
played seven years. They are now
in the throes OF their eighth festi-
val.
Sisters lifetime batting average
up to this moment is around 352;
Hornsbys around 341.
Both are brilliant infielders, as
well. 1t might be interesting to
note that for the last three seasons
Sisters average is only a half notch
under 400. And Hornsby Is now
slipping along at about the same
clip. So both are still on their
way up-better this season than they
have ever been-with eleven more
years to go before they come to
Ty Cobb's length of service and
within thirteen years left before
they equal the service of Wagner
and Lajoie.
The combinations:
Damon and Pythias, Castor and PolluI,
Tom and Jerry, and all the rest.
Hsig and Haig. II you want another,
There with a kick at the crucial test.
Take all the sllstar combinations,
Ply them all with the subtle boost.
But at the end. say, when you've finished.
sisler and Hornsby rule the roost.
Yet at the finish II is still a ques-
tion whether either. taken separate
ly. will equal Ty Cobbs eighteen
year record of between $40 and .375.
That's something for old Bill Tell
himself to shoot at in one of his
most confident moods.
That cool drift of wind that made
you shiyer for a moment the other
uay WAS breeze that happened to
pass between Mrs. Mallory and Mile
Lenglen as they bowed to each 9TH
er. 1t was not, as you thought, di-
rect from the Arctic.
The big moment:
r-rm thirty feet away I see IL start,
The small white ball, along the sward Of
green.
The white watch. with beating. anxious
heart.
As for ward In my eagerness I lean.
TOO short" say. with something like
despair.
why haven't the brains to get one up7''
I'ut still II glides-and glory crowns the air
A. suddenly IL fades into the cup.
The Hon. Frank Chapman, manda.
rim of the American Museum of Nat
dral History. has left for Ecuador
He has promised to send us back
a bushmaster. which we expect to
match against a rattIesnake at catch
weights. We will be very glad to
match the winner against Dempsey,
Leonard OF. Greb. permitting them
to take the entire receipts for their
contribution to science.
What with a girl killed by a bar
racuda. an aviator attacked by a
panther. an attendant overpowered
by an anthrop&dai ape. the waning