| i S the twirling In this league a little CRICKET TY COBB CREDITED WITH DISPUTED HIT harder to negotiate than he did 1s i International League variety, his -- { average for 99 games being a scant Official Figures Give Detroit! 230 prank Goebel, purchased by ' Veteran Mark of | Washington from . Reading, did a | little better, but he appeared in only A401. | 37 games for his average of .271. The most striking feature of the season's batting in the American | League in the 1922 ' campaign as BE ar Te oat aratat re ee 2 Ma aan tm Increase in Homers, i This year, 12,041 safe drives of assorted sizes were hammered out | paratively new players figuring in 2Yorage of .2844. This, is a declina | - the "charmed gircle." No less than | Of 484 In the number of hits as| | ith 1921 and a decrease | t second | compared with | 3istaen Hen le In nh: sion {in the batting average of about 21 ., 3-10 points, the grand average last lashed the pitehing for marke in ex | year being just under .287 . Two- | cess of .300 i : 2039 | The leading batter of the year was | Pase hits droped 108 to 2032; George H. Sisler, of St. Louis, with | three baggers from 694 last season | -419, while the incomparable veter- | Bo as hw Bowe runs increased | Detroit, was is - . | au, Maoagor Hn ol, w a! Bt Louis, making a valiant bid for mark of 400 for the third time, a | the championship, ousted Detro!t | : 3 rer | from its favorite position as batting | fugt no 9ther "player Was ove: | leader. The Browns' record 1s*.313 | ATONE the new-comers whe ex-| 88 compared with .316 for the Tig- | celled ne | Honey, Detroit, .352; | ers in 1921; while Boston, low club | Summa, Cleveland, formerly of Ro- | this season with 263, is 11 poin s chester, .348 for 12 games: Wood- below the Athletics' mark of .274 for re q gq: | last year. : all, Detroit, .344; Vangilder, St.| 88% : Louis, .344; Stephenson, Cleveland, | There was a slight increase in tic | 339; Galloway Philadelphia, .324; | use of the sacrifice to adance run-| t i oe Ine 3 5 pe i 55 Goslin, Washington, .324: Bames, | ners, 1682 as compared with 1 31 | | e | . last year, but there were 12 fewer | Rr er Chama Tn bases stolen, the figures being 631 | Detroit .300. ° : | asaingt ig Whether the art of pil- | } ris | fering the runner's way from sacs | Bry Ee as rn | to sack is really last can not be told | : | for only the fleetest of players ara | Te foaens Mih he Ane allowed to match their speed and | Detroit, last year's leader, is also up | 8kill against opposing pitchers and | there with .356. Ken Williams of | catchers and then .only occasionally | St. Louis, who led the league ia (8nd under exceptional circum- | home runs, with 39, batted .332, |stances. The policy of playing for with Tobin, a club-mate, and Pipp of | 8 humber of runs in a single attack | the Yankees, right on his hesls. | 8180 accounts for the further ds-| Vieach, Tigers, Eddie Collins, White | cline in the use of the sacrifice, the Sox, and Pratt, Boston are included | hit and run play having superseded | in the list. | both the stolen base and the sacri- Frank O'Rourke, who is likely to | fice. return to the Leafs, batted .264 in | 67 games, 'his 57 hits totalling 99 | bases. Frank McGowan, who was a | hitting demon with Newark, found Free Passes. The base on balls has not been cn | profoundly affected .by the passion | {for making long hits and getting 7 | runs In bunches as is the case with | stolen bases and sacrifices. Batters, | , are still permitted to "'walt 'om' ! out" with the result that five of the !{ teams accumulated very respectable | ' totals during thesseason. Cleveland, | with its smart veterans, worked op- | posing hurlers for 554 fred tickets to! first base, Detroit had 530, the | champion New York team 497, Chi-| cago 482 and St. Louis, 473 passes. | Exploits of home run hitters nc- cupied the attention of fans through- | out the country and 'theve was much interest in the home run "race" between certain of the lead- ers. Every team had Its some run hero, Kenneth R. Williams of the Browns being the leader with 39, twenty less than the mark set by Ruth in 1921. C. W. Walker of Phil | adelphia was second with 37, while A large variety to 'choose | "Babe" Ruth, in 110 games crack-| from at $5.00 up. ! ed out 35 circuit smashes for a grand ® | average of .315. Several other "fiy Extreme Novelty Folding ball hitters" made home "run records Umbrellas at $7.00 up. { that would have won them much zt tention in former years. It is legal for a basketball player to grab the ball while his opponent is trying for a goal from the fleid, | provided he does not touch the player. : { | T. Bruns, of Chicago (1883), is| J | the only major league player who | ever scored three runs in one in- | \ ning. : For Christmas Rain Sticks with Clever Handles Umbrellas with unusual handles make very welcome gifts. Theso have fine grade Silk and Silk mixtare tops. A Gift Suggestion In Men's Wear Collar Bags Nice Leather Collar Bags. If brother or father is not already the owner of ane of these useful bags make him a present of one. Watch for our gift suggestion in to-mor- row's Whig. ~ George VanHorne's Phone 362w. : 213 Princess Street. alion Ground, London, with & You not only read it, you sing it. Try it on your piano. comic hit, HIG. THE DAILY BRITISH w PORTING "THEM DAYS IS GONE FOREVER" Watch nightly for this big ACHIEVE THIS ON YOUR ALTO. LOOK AT LARRY O'SULLIVAN OVER THERE ! = HE'S PULLED -- THESE PANELS ARE GIRLS HAVE €VER KAOWA) -- ----] Am Salle i Y PE Tn LL YOU INSIST OU (FEARING TNE DARN FOOL THINGS OA) EVERY GOWN YOU OWN ---- WHY WAS IT DONE. | treme speed both among the juve- niles and aged horses; not as many new records as in some seasons, but enough to make to season stand out as one of the most brilliant since the inawgurat'cn of the sport of ha-- ness racing. Peter Manning beat the two-min- ute mark at Poughkeepsie, Read- ville and Hartford without endang- Scribes Ask Johnson To Explain Ty's Record. Ban Johnson will have to answer for making Ty Cobb a .400 hitter last season for the third time in his| career if the New York chapter of] the Baseball Writers' Association ot | America has its way. A resolution] way passed, calling ypon the Amerie-| "ly 0) rar wiien Read hung an league president to explain his} up at Lexington in 1921. At North unprecedented action. | Randall he trotted in 1.568% and st According to the official averages Columbus he smashed the record at the end of the season, Cobb finish- | with a mile In 1.57 tliat. Then came ua With 53 uyerge of Sau, having | his mile in 1.56% at Lexington, a { t bat. Unofficially the rote | performance which not only beat his Simes at 3 ae ini nel given | °¥0 record but also equalled tho op Dest mile ever turned in by a pacer as 491, S#ured on 211 hits in 526 | "in the open." | -- SUPER-TROTTER OF 1022. English Cricket Team Coming. * An announcement was made by Peter Manning Smashes His OWn | Norman Seagram, at the meeting of World's Records. { the Toronto Cricket club, that ar- Outstanding among the new | railigoments were being completed for world's records established by har-|the visit to Canada in the autumn of ness horses during the season of | 1523 of a first-class English amateur 1922, is that of Petar Manning, the | team, under the captaincy of Major super-trotter, which broke the rex | E. G. Wynyard, the well-known ord for trotters of any age or sex, | Hampshire M.C.C., Free Forester and a record which he had placed at 1.- | Incogniti player. A 'big feature of 67% in 1921, only to smash it a full | the visit is to be a match 'between second during the trots at Lexing-| tourists and eighteen *'colts" from ton in October, where Tom Murphy Trinity Coll school, Ridley; Upper piloted ihm the full e'ght furlongs in | Canada colfihs. ete. 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Pancho Villa, U.S, flyweight cham- ion, who is signed to meet Frankie Genaro on Dec. 114h in New Jersey, also has been matched to box Terry Martin at Madison Square Garden, Dec. 29th, The Ganaro bout was scheduled to have been the little Filipino's last | match in the United States before be- ginning hie world tour, but as the holding of this contest is in doubt, the meeting with Martin was arrang- ed, \s dm UNDERWEAR FOR MEN RWEAR FOI binations. Ask for it by name ral 1 Britton to Come Back. Tack Britton. former world's wel- ter champion, has decided to re-enter the ring. The veteran has béen sign- ed by his manager, Dan Morgan, to engage Bobby Barrett of Philadel hia in an eight-round bout at the Arena in Philadelphia. The match will be held on Christmas Day after- noon and will be one of four eight- round jpatches. 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