New Britain herald., 1930-09-29
RECORDS FAIL ID
 STAND THIS YEAR
Terry Leads National While
 American Race Is Uncertain

New York, Sept. 29 lf)-Ihe champions of yesteryears were even less in evidence than the batting records of former National league seasons at the 1880 campaign of the major leagues reached it's end.
 In the entire list of batting lead CTS. only one 1929 title holder in each league managed to retain his crown for another season, according to figures which have not yet been officially checked, while in the elder circuit, records suffered almost as great a slaughter. Babe Ruth, al though unable to retain his title as home run king of all baseball, con- tinued to lead the American league with 49 four baggers, improving his 1929 mark by three. Kiki Cuyler, fleet Chicagoan, continued to steal more bases than any other National leaguer although his total of 36 was below his 1929 mark of 43.
 Billy Terry of New York became the leading batsman of the Nation al league, compiling an average of .401, although he was not able to pass the total of 254 hits made by Frank O'Doul of Philadelphia in winning the 1929 title with .39S mark. He did succeed in tying this total, which is National league rec ord
 Chuck Klein of Philadelphia and Hack Wilson of Chicago led in the individual record smashing. Klein scored 15S runs, hit 59 doubles and made his blows good for g. total of 455 bases. All three were records for his league, passing the totals of 1856 and 52, made last year by Rogers Hornsby of Chicago and Johnny Frederick of Brooklyn, and of 45O total bases made by Hornsby a few years before. Wilson left hard ly a fragment of the league home run record as he hit 56 to beat the mark of 43 set by Klein in 1929. And in doing this he established an all time Major league mark of 1S0 runs batted in and helped his team do as much for the club honors with a total of Ill for the Cubs. Adam Comorosky of Pittsburgh supplanted a teammate. Lloyd Waner. in first place by hitting 23 triples.
 The final result of the race for the American league batting champion ship which Lou Gehrig of the Yan- kees and Al Simmons of the Athlet- ics carried on. may not be known until the official figures come out, but unofficial returns have it that Gehrig's three hits yesterday brought his mark to .3S2, to give him the ever gets the decision supplants Lew Fonseca of Cleveland. Charley Geh- ringer of Detroit, who swept Amcri- can league honors in 1929, came to end of this year without title. Last season, Gehringer led in runs with 131, in triples with 19 and in stolen bases with 27 and was in two first place ties, with Dale Alexander. De- troit, with 215 hits, and with John son. Detroit, and Manush. St. Louis, with 45 doubles. This year Simmons scored 153 times. Johnny Hodapp of Cleveland made 225 hits, 51 of them doubles, Earl Combs, New York, smacked 49 triples and Matty Mo- Manus, Detroit. stole 23 sacks.
 In the performance of clubs as whole, a few more records turned up in a brief and perhaps incom- plete survey of the marks of past seasons Three were in the American league, where the Athletics went to bat 5,6S6 times and the Yankees scored 1,060 runs and had 9SO bat ted in. Both Yankee marks broke Major league marks of 982 and 933 set by the Champion Chicago Cubs of 1929. The Cardinals had one slug ging record to their credit. They hit 367 doubles, passing a Major league record of S55 set by Cleveland in 1921.