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Show IfBats .400 For The Third Time , O-O 00 O O O O O o o O O O O o I Disputed Hit Is Granted Cobb I By BILLY FY s Purlnp the season of 1922 ,Ty Cobb H of the Detroit club added several new H records to Ills credit. Of his several notable performan-H performan-H res. none pleased Cobb better than his mason's bat tint: n . t r.i i; n u ( In 1911 Cobb achieved the ' besl mark of Ills career, .420. lie 'came 1 back In 1912 with .410. His ambition to hit 400 for three consecutive years I was broken when he piled up the ' mark of only .390 & 1913 m Getting an cn 40o In lf2 how-I ever, has enabled Cobb to tie the major ma-jor league record It was formerly held by Jesse Kwrkett who batted too or better In 1895. 1896, and 1S99. i ALLOWS DISPUTED HIT H Since the close of the present sea- Bon there has been considerable dls- ! cusslon as to whether or not Cobb I really did hit .40n, because of a questionable ques-tionable hit. That argument has been closed by President Johnson of tho American league, who has announced that tho disputed hit has been allowed. The final averages of the Americ an league as published had l.l at bat " 2 7 times, and m iking 211 hits for an average of .4 00- A f W v.i elcs Inter, the official statistician stat-istician noted that there was a difference dif-ference between his records and tho unofficial averages. Ills records gave Cobb only 210 hits, bringing his average aver-age just below the prized mark, or .399. A careful survey of the averages showed that in a certain pa me played at New York In May. the news bureaus credited Cobb with two hits while the official Score sheel gave him only one It's a rule of all news bureau that j the official score sheet shall be followed fol-lowed In sending out the results. In this game Cobb hit a ball over second that Scott got in front or tut was un-jable un-jable to Ret Ills man nt first. At first the Official scorer ruled it a ;ltlt. but l iter i hanged his mind and credited Scott with an error i An Investigation shows that a doz-! doz-! en experts were In the New York press box t lint day and eleven of them gar I Cobb a hit on that play, among them being Fred Lcib, president of the Baseball Writers' association. The preponderance of evidence Iprpved that Cobb deserved a hit and the disputed blhgte was allowed The official scorer said that he first ruled It a hit, and after thinking It over believed Scott should ha,-e nandled the play, and scored It an error. |