Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1917 — WHEN ONE HIT COUNTS MOST [ARTICLE]

WHEN ONE HIT COUNTS MOST

William Chase Temple Figure# Difference Between .250 and .350 Hitter in Ball Game. The difference between a .250 and a .350 hitter is just a trifle more than one hit in every three games. Sounds astonishing —but it is true. Just about one-third of a safety per game divides the Cobbs and the Speakers and the Jacksons from the hoi polloi among swatsmiths. William Chase Temple, donor of the Temple club and one of the best record men on the national game in its entire history, has figured it out. He has taken all the averages of both leagues to reach his conclusions. Temple’s statistics show that each player in the National league averages 3.64 times at bat per game, while the American league averages 3.6 times, making the grand average of 3.G2 at bat for every major league player in each game. “Having reached these figures, I then found that to bat .350 in 100 games a player would have to make 127 hits,” said Temple. “A .250 batter will make 91 hits in every 100 games. That shows a difference of 36 hits in every 100 games between a .350 and a .250 hitter. “Therefore, it can be seen readily that the .350 hitter, making 36 more hits in each 100 games than does the .250 man, averages only about onethird hit more per game than the low hitter, or 1.08 hits in very three games.’’ --