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Show MAKES TWO THOUSAND HITS Zach Wheat of Brooklyn Dodgers Out to Surpass Record Made by Honus Wagner. Fourteen years ago Zach Wheat, bought by the Brooklyn Baseball club from tlte Mobile club of the Southern league, made his first major hit at the Polo Grounds off Otis Crandall. At the same grounds in the series with the Giants which ended yesterday yester-day he got his 2,000th safety. In fact Zach reached the 2.000th mark i if J (JJ I ': A -1 w;- v. -m ) Zach Wheat. I with two hits, one a double and the other a home run off Phil Douglas. The Brooklyn outfielder Is the only player in the National league to be credited with a grand total of 2,000 hits. Thli Is due to the lack of veterans vet-erans In the parent major league body. Wheat says he Is on the wuy to surpass sur-pass the record of 8,4:12 safe drives made by Ilonus Wagner In the hitter's major league career of twenty-one years. |