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Emery Reaches Season Home Run Milestone

Only one batsman in the annals of the League had ever made at least thirty home runs in a season. He was, of course, the redoubtable Alistair Bolton of the erstwhile juggernaut Liverpool club. He had five consecutive seasons of at least thirty from 1901 to 1905, and fell short by just one in 1900. No one has come close to matching such exploits ever since.

Cyril Emery, the Leicester City first base man, a tall six feet one and a powerful sixteen stone, may yet challenge that record, and took the first step towards doing so by making his own thirtieth home run of the season Tuesday in a loss to Chesterfield at Saltergate that was as exciting as it was momentous.

Emery’s home run in the fourth innings put the Foxes up by eight runs to four, but when so much scoring occurs so early it is not a safe lead, and that proved true again yesterday as the Spireites plated half a dozen in the seventh, and one more for good measure in the eighth.

It was a measure Chesterfield would need. For Leicester threatened to draw even with Chesterfield as Emery came to the bat with runners on second and third base. His thirty first home run would have brought the Foxes level, and he did crush a mighty blow that bounced off the top of the short left field fence, which scored the two runners but limited Emery himself to a 2B. Snowden singled Emery to third base, but MacBride ended the proceeding with a weak ground ball out off the pitcher Greenaway, and it was all over.

Only 4,251 showed up in the massive Saltergate Ground to witness Emery’s achievement, a testament to the fact that both clubs were eliminated from Cup contention long ago.