Show n I C. C RUN OF I. I CONTESTS Statistician St. Irwin M. M Howe dehes Into his ills records of or the past season and Informs the baseball world that George was the American league ea ur batter batter batter bat bat- ter to make Illahe the lon longest e t run of oC con tire live hit lIlt games In 1917 George ran run tW twenty six nt games ames In n a row during luring he mao made one or more blows Tills This stretch of or swatting carried from August August August Au Au- I gust 11 to September 5 But lc i also had hall an lun run of oC t games starting stalling this tills lesser Jamboree June Jun 30 and having It finished by Carl Mays R of Boston July 18 13 This Tills same pitcher litCher Mays of Boston BOlton deserves es a n medal or 01 some somo other oilier token tolen of or honor from Ty ry 1 Cobb tot foi If ir it hadn't boon been en for or him Sister might e have continued his batting spree and at least leaI equaled Cobbs Cobb's season s record of thir ty fix e games For or after bein being dropped without a blow blo George Georgo began wielding ie his bat with deadly again ln and lan an up UI thirteen more mOOS games gaines before being bein- held without h a hit aft after r tho thu game of August 2 So Mays flYs at least t stopped from fromn a n run vita of or thirty five If IC Geor George e had hail only made macic that hit it hit it seems that that little two word lad hail c a. a great deal to lo do with Staler Bu for tor that If u Iho tho versatile Brownie Drown Ie might have huns hung up the tin un- I of oC el sixt ollit ht consecutive contests contests con con- tests In which he lie gleaned no one or more noie I swats If Jf he ito had made matle three little j hits one on July luly 18 13 another August t 6 and another August ii 11 George now would ho 10 hailed as tho the willow wielding wizard of or the tile world For th the records show that except for tor torJul or Jul July 18 13 18 August t C G slid and August ii 11 1 Sis 81 ler leI banned banged ban d out a blow blo bloor or oi- snore mol every cr lIa tiny day h he played e from rom Jun Juno 30 0 to September Septem Septem- her ber 4 inclusive c. Just think of or it it If meaning three little hits alono alone stood between and more than bait two solid months of r swatting but theres there's no noVa Va way of ot erasing that thal If I |