Show 1 e I t I Ness Breaks J JI Worlds World's Mark Markin I I I. I I in 41 G Games FRANCISCO July 13 Jack Jack JackNess Ck SAN S Ness Noss first baseman of ot the Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land team of ot the tho Pacific league team broke the worlds world's r record cord for fr hitting in consecutive games b by hitting in hl his hi forty first consecutive consecutive tive tire game game here toda today Tho The previous pre pro Ious record of or hits in forty consecutive consecutive con con- games was made b by Ty Cobb Nells captured the Pacific Coast league title when he hit safely In hl his twenty ninth consecutive game Ills His first hit tOda today was a single to center and nd he was caught trying to steal second Later ho hit a a. homo home run In one forty games he ha made sc seventy nt hits Ho lie lea leads s the coast players with a batting average of or This was made in ninety ninety- seven en games with 35 times Umes at bat during which ho he made two sixty runs runs HI base hits four tour three three- bag Kers ten home runs and stole stoic nine nino bases base Although playing on the coast Nets Ness was born horn raised educated and learned to play pia ball ban in Chicago Ho He entered the professional proCessional ranks with the Madison Wis team In 1909 Detroit scouts saw him and he was drafted but but the rough edges edgeson on his hie small league playing caused him t tc- tc be farmed out to Williamsport Williams Williams- port in the tho league lealue lIe He stayed there until the tho fall tall of ot 1910 when Detroit recalled him N Ness s played with Detroit until June 1911 when Hu Hugh h Jennings JenninG's sent him to New Now Bedford in the thee New e England nd league for finishing touches which ho spent two seasons seasons seasons sea sea- sons in acquiring Oakland drafted Ness at the close of or the 1912 season and he reported two years cars ago |