Show MANY RECORDS liSTED DURiNG BASEBALL RACE Ken Williams Hammers Out Three Homers In One Game Other Feats BY GEOna GEORGE Special Correspondent of Tho The Stand Stand- ard E Copyright 1923 by The Standard Standard- Examiner NEW EW DW YORK Jan Batters 13 12 Batters must mut have begun un an Injection of ash ho- ho before be before fore the season nelson of 1912 IS 12 began judg- judg log Ing judgIng by the rampage they were on throughout most of the th year From From Inspection of records which became available for tor the tho first time today It looks as It they spent most of their time doing doing- stunts that had bad never nover been ItI I done before and may never be dose don again caln Strategy was w s no deterrent to the lIng ba athlete who felt It In hint him I to tl do or die and considered doing bet bet- better bet better ter toy than thin dying Take Walter W of Pitts- Pitts Pittsburg Pitts-burc Pitts burg for tor example He went to bolt bat b more times In 1922 1923 than any National league batsman since tho the senior cir cir- circuit cult was Isas a kid Maranville batted times during during- the season anlas and as as still begs begging for more chances Vo shea bel the baseball year ended The best pre lous record In the National as as amade made by Brown Drown of In 1892 lt when the tho scorers marked do down n appearances at t the tile plate for him Callaghan a beginner with the Cubs Cub last season ceason hit lilt three times In tn one oni on InnIng This In the fourth frame of a game came against Philadel I Philadelphia phia at Chicago Of course It was not quite so notable a n performance as took place on September 6 C 1883 lt shen hen Chicago gale cave e Detroit one of th the beatings In history In that memorable contest Tom Burns Durns Fred Fled Fred Goldsmith and Bily Sunday all went to bat three times In Inthe inthe the seventh Inning Their teat feat was duplicated on Juno June 18 IS 1894 IS 4 whet Boston Doston defeated Baltimore 28 2 to i 7 White WHile Keeler the th brightest star of ef efthem them all made hits for tor his team teamIa Ia 1897 1397 7 That was a National league leaeu record for 25 lears ie ears ra A quarter quartel of a 0 century later Rogers Horns Horns- Hornsby Hornsby Horns Horns-by by of St Louis made hits The unusual part of this is y should have stopped at exactly More strange Is that Hornsby's total bases amounted to exactly Then Hornsby pressed the run of multi multi- multiples multiples ples pies of 10 tor for he ho batted an n even ven extra bases beating the th old record of held by Sam Thompson I since e 1895 Until 1922 the th American league never had a player who batted three home runs In one on game came Kenneth Williams hit three April 22 Philadelphia got cot another record In 1922 but they are not bragging about it Frank Parkinson their young sandlot second baseman struck out 93 times Pitts Pittsburgh Pittsburg burg as a x team took away way the slugging reputation of St Louis In 1920 the th Cardinals went ent to bat times Pittsburg raised their total to In 1922 That shows sho the PI- PI PIrates Pi Pt Pirates rates were ere not waiting much on the th pitcher and that they like their bass base hits Parkinson glorified Philadelphia In another way ay than by striking out so frequently for he had more assists In 1922 than any second baseman and more than any ke kev stone sacker Backer In SO 30 years Washington had a II second baseman In Harris who beat veat all records In Inputting inputting putting runners out at second tagging two more than the former record held by Jimmy Williamson of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York In closing please say that Lew Blue of at Detroit Is the only first baseman to have base made mad two tso double plas un- un unassisted Unassisted un unassisted assisted in one game came |