Show I WAGNER LIKELY TO EQUAL POP ASO ANSON 1 I A ba baseball record held by only ono one man who I has hns pla played d In Iho tho major leagues Among all tho the men or mor mord who may mOlY call themselves major majol league players today only one ono man who seems likely to i equal that record sa says s 's tho the I I Press Part Party of or of tho the lint first part Adrian C. C An- An I son eon grand old man of ot baseball now I living JIvInG in Chicago Party Parly of or the second cond condI I part John P. P Wagner Vaguer now playing ball bail Ifor i ifor for foi- tho the Pittsburg club of or tho National t league In tho the two thirty ye years years' rs' rs history of or f the tho major Ica leagues nes there have havo been Just ton un men who have o batted or better forten torten for tor forten ten consecutive years lS the Pop Anson beginning In f. f first year car of tho tue National league had an nn i average of ZOO or better for Cor oi con- con conj J j seasons Dan Brouthers and Willie Keeler turned the trl k k for tor elev eleven n straight summers summers- L Ld l Delehanty and Napoleon have a record of twelve o successive c years each inthe In tho the WO 30 division lI Delehanty might have equaled the record of ot Anson had not death intervened ened Ho lIe hit S his last year c r on earth oarth Dilly Hamilton and Joo Joe Kelly heIly batted for eleven en straight years Hugh HuSh Duffy Dully and Jesso Jesse Burkett ten years I I each cach I Tho The season CJ on of 1903 1908 was tho the twelfth year ar In th which Wagner has batted I or better 1 Of ot all the these e ten len famous sluggers only three are still sUJI playing ball bali In the tho bl big I leagues league leagues and Wagner Kee Keeler dropped out of ot tho the rank In I 1907 In 1905 1308 I there thero noI now no In the major le leagues gues aro arc I only three men besides Wagner who have ha t batted for two tv or more consecutive c i years oars T Ty Cobb and lauda I ullo Rossman Roseman have ha hit over o COO 00 for or two years ears e each ch Mike UkI I Donlin for elx eb Ix years ears Cobb may go along f for tor thirteen years ears moro without dropping I below th the co coveted ted figure ligure b but t hos ho's Rot got a no along along long hard road ahead of him and he Is prone to severe Sc slumps ono one of which may some somo time prove fatal tatal Rossman I hardly has a chance Ho hits hard but ho he Is a slow runner and that fault tault Is j I almost certain to drop him below the i mark somo some year ear In the next ten I Donlin would seem to have ha a n. good chance to equal Wagners Wagner's a ncr's mark and perhaps per i t haps Ansons ons But Mike Is fond of a gay i i Iff ut hes he's on the stage stag now he ho and his wife 1 Mabel lUte Hue are members of a convivial con con- i vl vivial set and Its It's dollars to doughnuts i I Mikes Mike's social batting average ll will knock knockout t tout out of baseball mark before half halt a doben more seasons havo have rolled around I Wagner looms up as the tho ono one man In Inline inline inline line for the honor of ot equaling the thit won non I Ill mark set b by Anson n on I I Three c moro more seasons as a hitter I and Wagner Vagner will have equaled Ansons Anson's s I great feat eat four more and he will have o I set Bet a ba baseball record that would bo likely mch to stand for tor a few tew decades If It not for tor ever er S Anon Anson Brouthers Delehanty and the the- I lamented Pete Browning Drowning were the tho greatest great great- est eat sluggers gers who ever lived 11 Duffy Dully and md Hamilton wore marvelous hitters but bui they were aided alde 1 greatly b by their speed I in getting to t on drives os Koeler Koe- Koe her ler Kell Kelly Burkett and all aU app appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap p ared as stars staJl after th the bunting game gamo had developed eloped as an aid tv to sticking The rhe first named quartette were oro all big bIb men I not wonderfully wonderful fleer of foot toot and they made their averages by hitting tho the ball Their terrific hitting Is more closely approached ap today by Wagner than by any other Oliver ball bait player Ho Re Is fast In g getting to first but It Is hiS hi hitting and not his running that gives gUes him his average a See what ho he did this past season Made Mado hits In l 1 games only games only National league ue batter bailer to make mako hits Average Made g 3 two bas 1 19 13 three three-ba three S' S Is I's and 10 homo home runs runs total total bases Wagner ncr Is still a young man somewhere somo- somo whore where in tho the carl early thirties Ho Is pla playing tho the best ball of ot his life Ho takes the tho beet befit of care core of ot himself It Is possible that Honus ma may quit baseball baseball base base- ball however Just because he lie doesn't care to play nn any more Ho 1 threatened to todo todo do so last spring And ho lie doesn't have to play ball If It he I doesn't want wait to He Is one ono of ot tho the heaviest property owners In hi his homo town of ot Carnegie Pa FI He has a 3 business s block a a. bowling alley and a a. chicken farm also brewery an anS ani railroad stock two automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles and re cn blooded dogs doSs H al also o has according to late lato advices ad from g gone gono Into tho the circus business business business busi busi- ness with two to brothers and tho Wagner Vagner Brothers' Brothers Show will Ill be lie beono ono one of ot tho tue big bis noises on the road next year |