Show miKe RECORD BRIGHT BRICHT 4 11 4 PAGE PACE ON BASEBALL LORE I Poor old olti Honus Honus' Sad tho the words I but all too true John Henry Wagner Wag rag 1 ner ncr big league leas baseball hero for tor eighteen e long seasons Is standing on th tl e the brink Ono One little push push and and over he goes Forgotten No never Mind you b before rore we go so any further with this story we do o not make the positive c prediction that John Henry I Wagner Vagner will vili not again bat b be before before be- be fore ore he throws away his uniform and quits th the game Wagner ras haa been a wonderful play play- I er cr Some folks Calks declare that in all Honus has been the lie most C extraordinary athlete who ever over engaged en- en paged g In the national pastime He lie has at some somo time in his eighteen seaSons seasons seasons sea sea- sons of oC labor been a leader len In virtually virtually virtu ally every department of ot the game game game- batting total base hits extra baso base I hits stolen bases boses runs and fielding Ye Yet now that tho veteran is slipping I Cast these things arc easily and antI 0 quickly forgotten In baseball the crown of the hero I wears seven league boots one day it rests on the brow of a player In Boa Boa- ton tho the next it ma may Jump to St. St I Louis Therefore it is not because J of his individual prow prowess ss In a de department department do- do doI I in one or several ev rAI seasons Reasons I that Honus will vill be he remembered al- al ways lYS John Henry Henr Wagner batted In the class for Cor seventeen consecutive seasons There is your our answer Wagner was unusually consistent His Ella pepper was stocked up for tor sev- sev campaigns and not once did Ii tio hI have ha to offer the tho excuse for tor an This about all nil else makes the Dutchman the tho baseball narvel marvel for all time Men who deal dal with baseball statistics statis statis- tics differ about some of the tho old tim tim- Tri rs but as near as we can arrive at att it t t. t Wagners Wagner's batting average for the seventeen seasons 1897 to 1913 In- In was about His highest l cra o was compiled In 1900 uld md his lowest was an even In 1913 George Moreland the well wen known statistician has ha had an opportunity o follow Wagner's Wagners baseball career losely from start to finish and he heLves jives Ives the German Gennan 2971 hits in the enteen c seasons Honus Ionus was J at bat 6 11 times in that long stretch He played in 2282 games stole stoIc bases ind md scored 1552 runs Last season Reason Wagner Yas fell pretty far tar eloW the mark In batting but ie got enough hits to shove him more han than past the mark another ecord he lie had Bou sought ht |