The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-12-04
H0RNSbY SETS
UP RECORD
At BAT
National Leagues Champion
Passes Keeler's Old Mark
for Total Of BingIes.

Rogers Hornsby led a glorious
triumph for the right-hand batters
by the wonderful record that he
made for the National League and
for his own st. Louis team in the
season Of 1922.
For the third year in succession
he was at the head Of the league
in batting, with an average of .40l.
That percentage Is the highest at.
tanned by any batter since 1893.
when Ed Delehanty. Del. the
Mighty" finished on top in the
National League with a percentage
of .40S.
It 10 Of interest to note here that
Hornsby and Delehanty were bat
tsrs Of much the same type and
both were right.hand hitters. Both
had the same swing. Both were
line hitters. Possibly Delehanty
could bat the ball farther than
Hornsby, but not much farther.
1t Is the second instance in
National League history that a bat
In succession. Hans Wagner led
In addition to winning the hat
ting championship of the league.
Hornsby won the home run champ
iOnship of the season and also of
the league by making forty-two
home runs during the regular
schedule of games.
The former championship in home
run batting in the National League
had been held by Williamson Of
the Chicagos. who batted twenty
seven home runs in 1887.
No player had approached that
record In all the years subsequent
until Hornsby reached a total Of
twenty-five home runs comparative
ly early in the season Of 1922,
which made II an assured fact that
he would establish a new home run
record before the year was over
II he retained his health.
After SURPRISING Williamson's
total he kept steadily forward and
eventually exceeded the totals be-
ing made by the home run hitters
OF the American League. DO that
he was the undisputed home run
champion Of the season Of 1892
when the baseball year was COM
pleted.
Continuing in the variety Of his
record breaking attack Hornsby
MAJ ESQ hits In 1922. which is
better than the record for hits
which was made by Willie Keller
in 1897. Keeler's total was 243.
For the many years in which the
Keller record had stood in the
National League, 1t frequently had
been asserted that no player would
IN 10 Ia
hand batter. Hornsby did, and he
is a right-hand batter.
OF the $50 hits Which Hornsby
made 148 were singles, forty six
two-baggers, fourteen three-base
hits and forty-two home runs. His
total bases were $50, which sur
passed his own record of a total
OF 37S the previous year.
Inc compilation of runs batted
In IL comparatively new in base
ball. Cravath Of Philadelphia held
the record for the National League
with 129 runs batted In during the
season Of 1919. when Cravath bat
ted the ball over the Philadelphia
fence for homo runs every now
and then.
In 1922, without a short fence
to help him, Hornsby batted in I49
runs. Q gain Of twenty over the
mark set by Cravath, and in some
respects almost AZ big an achieve
ment as his home PUN record.
The extra-base hits made by him
put up a total Of 102 for 1929. That
was helped by his big home run
record. In 1921 he batted eighty
three extra-base hits. Hofnsby
batted a home run in 1922 with the
bases filled. Four times be made
two home runs in one game.
= All told he made a record In the
National League last season which
is one OF the biggest individual
achievements In baseball. and he
ct task for himself in future
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