Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-11-28 | Page 7 | Magee is Best of Nationals

IEEE. IS BEST, I DF if NILS I; Philadelphia Player Carries Off K Batting' Honors for the Ijg Past Season. 8 IMMORTAL HANS WAGNER I ; IS IN FIFTH POSITION .j Bescher of Cincinnati Leads in y Base-Stealing, With' Seventy 1 Pilfered Sacks.. J NEW YORK. Nov. 27. Sherwood Ma- gee, the Philadelphia outfielder, with at) '. average of .331. stands out as "the best I batsman of the National league last sea- son in the official batting averagec of $ the league for 1910, mado public. tonight. Crandall of New York and Gobdo of Boston outrank Magee in actual aver- age3, but they took part in lew than j fifty games each, ho that tho honors by- general consent go to Magee, who played In 154 games. Campbell of Pittsburg folIowB Maj?ce. i with an average of .326. and Hofman of R Chicago is close bohlnd. with .325. Snod- K grass of New York, with .321, and Wag- h ncr of Pittsburg, the leador last sea- son. with .320. and others In the company 6f heavy hitters. r. Bescher of Cincinnati leads the bass- it ; stealers with seventy stolen bases. Knaho sj of Philadelphia leads tho sacriflc hitters. '-k with thlrty-sovon hits of this charactor. :