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Show IS SISLER THE NEW TY COM? Baseball World Is Swinging From Regime of Georgia Peach To New Rule of Peachy George j BROWN STAR REACHES GREATNESS BY DEAN SNYDER 1 They've called Ty Cobb the Georgia1 Pench for 'ho last fifteen years, but1 at this point 'n the drama enters j Peachy George. It now remains for the world to start calling the Brown star The Great George Sisler This tribute is certalnl) due the su perb St. Louis first baseman Pushed by one of the hardest hit tine fields in ihr history of the game, Slslcr is climbing higher into the hall 'of bnscball fame each week. Curing the latt four year? of Tj Cobb s reign in (he Johnson family of 'swatters, the Brown first baseman has been approaching greatness This year with the Georgia Peach in the background, due partly lo a I get-away hlump and later to accident Sisler has occupied ihe batting throne His bat has clicked throuch the first half of ihe 1920 American league sea- son at a 417 pace i Each week ho is being forced to extend ex-tend his powers For lonrnlng back of (hint is a wonderful trio of rivalsJoe Jackson Trie Speaker and the rarnpag ing Babe Rath. As is the general rule with all ball players, th.ilr fielding imp'-ovo. along 'with their hitting. A new confidence 'is bom in a player when he Is con ' nccting regvlarly. j He takes bigger chances. The crowd ! psychology booHt? hlni and the break.", jgo with him. Flcet-Fcot. Like Cobb. Sisler lfl a fleet-foot I There aren't any faster runners in the' big leagues. then George The plight-j ;est hesitation on Ihe part of a fielder! in handling a ball off Bister's bat and! that ball go w for n base hit. Ills eensai i n a 1 fielding at flr.i! has j revived the same kind of thrills that Hal Chase used to give tho customers.! He works over head with quite as 'much grace as when handling the low throws SlHler Is a college product, having 'filtered through 'he university halls at I I Ann Arbor, Mich He is just in the! prime of his career, being 27 year; ! old. What Is Ahead. Whether he can maintain the ter-!rific ter-!rific batting pace he has Pet during 'the firBt half of the season Is an rprn bit of speculation with tho odds in his , favor. Cobb has lurned in two full seasons with averages cf .420 and .410, respec-tively, respec-tively, In 1911 and 1912. It is a high mirk lo shoot at but all j COSj $tP' SISLER the boys aro touching UP 'he ball this Sisler and (he other three members season of the select quartet of swats. He With Cobb back in the game it will will have to travel some. h mterc-tting to pep if can overtake I But Tynis is inat kind of a peach. |