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Show NEW RECORDS LOOM I BOTH MAJOR LOPS -i Hornsby and Sisler May Set New Marks During 1922 Pennant Chase B) Gl 'i:.i OH 1DWIOK Special torn- pondenl of The Standard- Sxaminer. (Copyright, 1 922. by The Standard-Exa Standard-Exa miner. ) i NEW YORK. July 29. Tho baseball j fans are seeing riK'h' now the greatest great-est exhibition or batting by Individual hitters their eager eyes have ever feated upon, in the past, one league or the otlo r has had one hitter who set a pace defying precedent, but never before have two hitlers b. en mashing, banging and slamming tho ball in the manner in which .Slab-rand Hornsby have b. n spoiling the whito horsehide covers this summer. fcach of them has the possibility 'of making a new worlds record for hatting. There aro coincidences In this situation. Each major league is represented rep-resented and each St. Louis team is represented. Each type 01 batter is represented, as one tu a left-hander and the other right-handed hitter. I Uoth men are playing on the same home field so then- an be no advantage advan-tage in that respOOt and both plaj On the same field in New York. Never h. 'e hitters bean so evenly matched j so far us general conditions are con-! con-! cemed. M J .1,1 K U VS KKCOKU. The record tor the most hits in a .(.ason iii the National leatfue Is held ; by Lille Kecler. who made 243 In L897, lbs total bases Were 304 but Eajole hit tor 3 y total baaes the same 'year, although he had but 1H8 hits in all. wiuie never oared much for busting fences. He liked to stand the I first baseman and the pitcher on their cranlums when he bunted. The record lor the mot lilts In a season In fhu American league was i made by Sisler in 1030 when he corn-I plied 2i7 Ills total bases were 399, made up of 49 two-baggers, 18 triples trip-les and 19 home runs. Some differ-once differ-once as computed with Re b r's record but while Blslei can nit them out better bet-ter than Wee Willie, he cannot bunt I better than Keeler did. They are not putting players on the diamond these days who ran do that. The most hits made In a season by a single player was made by bonny i. vons m i -. ; w ho played in the Am erican association and hit safely 284 times. Eyons could outhlt Keeler and probably Sisler also and he miftBt j have outhit ; nothing that ever were a flannel uniform It he had been more careful of the amount of malt extract , I he put away. The records ior Eyons, extra base hits are not available They 'did not keep them in the early days, not knowing that some voting man would be trying to beat out the old-timers old-timers nearly 40 years later It isuifo 'to say. howovsr, that Denny had his share oJ home runs and triples tor he was a mighty clouter. I If he had been able to get to ilrst as last a-s a broken down Jitney bus,, he would havo Increased his record materially. EXJPEOT N EW RfcXX)KD. j At the rati Hornsby is going, fig-I j urlng both by game and by single ' i chance, he would beat Kceler'6 243-hlt 1 record this year. Hornsby Is now hit- I tlnv at the rate of 242 hits with ev-i . i .thing frOQI this On In his favor for bi ll more likely to bat better than 'worse He had his slump earlier in j the year. Now we come to a rather surprising display of Slsb-r's skill. He Is going at th same pace he set In 1820. If I I he continued to bat at the same rate i as at t ii i 'moment he would have 257 1 hits at the finish ot the season and Ithat is the exact number he made In j 1120. It should be easier for Sisler to gain a margin over 257 hits than for Horns- by to surpass Keelcr's record because! .Sisler has the advantage of getting away from the battel box on the first i bo.se side. If. in every ten times at b.ti beiween ) , now and the end of the year. Hornsby! land Sisler can make one more base hit 'than they havo been making in ten! (tries, the fans should get out the lau- j rel wreaths for the finest exhibition of I hatting the major leagues ever saw In j the. year. The fvtits should into the j superlative class, all of the famous jold slickers who have left memories 'behind them would lose out. Much argument Is heard about great j hitters because of the savage attack! : Kuth has made on tin ball, but how many of those will laud Ruth for his , wonderful driving power ever saw Dennis Lyons. He knocked down third basemen with his drives not once but1 repeatedly. At least a quarter of the time he batted the ban to left field with such speed that a slow fielder eould hold him on first base. The ball j yvas out to the fenc e by the time Ly-! Ly-! ons was two-thirds of the way to first and it was no trick to keep him from jgolng on to second with that handl-cap handl-cap against him. TWO IN 1. 1. MEEK.; I IT. I No two batters' ever had a better chance to establish a world's record i than this pair of young men about whom tho fans of St. Eouis laud J morning, noon and nigtit. It will pay .them to make such u record for evcii Ii they are not rewarded at the mo- I menl In cash, it Is astonishing how I recollection of such achievements crop out when contracts are considered for!, the future. 11 each should succeed in 1 establishing a league record for the I i hits St Eouis would bubble over withif pride and even Ho biffins: Babe with j hll hone-. Un record attached U him," would fall to attract more attention a tor the moment He is a little out of jl the limelight anyway. i nn , |