New Britain herald., 1914-08-24
zF|MER IS TRAVELLING
 A LA TYRUS R. COBB
Turns in Twenty -sIght Hits in Last
 Twenty Games for $50.
(Written for the' New Britain Herald by S. w. Challenger, Official Scorer of the Eastern Asociat1on.)

(Written for the New Britain Herald by s. w. Challenger, Official Scorer of the Eastern Asociation.)
 Bridgeport, Aug. 24.-New Britain played some very good ball during the week, but dropped games by one run. The team has been shy of the winning punch and game after game has gone
 to the other fellows by that one run
 margin which looks so little but means so much. The record for the week
 was one victory in five games.
 Hartford was the best performer of
 the week, with five victories out of
 six games played. New London came
 along with its four wins out of five,
 just reversing New Britain's doings.
 Only a stroke of lightning can halt
 the onward march of McCann and his
 Uhlans to the championship capital.
 waterbury holds hard to second place,
 With four wins out of six games.
 Brtdgeport's Notifications at third
 rank are seriously weakened. The
 best the Bolts could do was to win
 two out of six games Curiously enough these wins were from Spring. held and Waterbury, while it dropped battles to New Haven and New Brit ain. Springfield lost all five games. NeW Britain can get some satisfiac- ton in knowing that there was one team worse off than the Skis. New Haven has braced since Boss Cameron returned. It won. four out of six games. Pittsfeld took three out of seven.
 Most of the New Britain players did good business in the batting line during the week. Zeimer has been a sterling performer of late. In his last twenty games he turned in twen- Weight safe hits at a batting clip of $50. That is like his last seasons form. He has just reached the cen- tury mark in safe hits and was the hrst New Britain man to do it. His gain for the last week was nine points Heath made the biggest advance, put ting on fifteen points. Hancock add ed thirteen, Moves six, Woodward four, Tetreault two. Wilson lost six teen, Smith eleven, Egan eleven, Tol- and five, Jones three and Dawson one. Jones is still among the select 300, but he has had something of a slump now for two weeks. Here are the figures:
 Jones .3O1, Egan .272, Zeimer .26S Heath PAP, Tetreault .241, Moves .229, Dawson .222, Hancock .192, Tol- and .169, Wilson .160, Smith .16O, Woodward .140, Clark 100.
 Individual Batting.
 And now 1t is Barr of New Haven who turns in the most attractive look ing batting spurt of the season. Ten games back he decided to launch his array of bats against the allied hurlers and Germany's raid through Belgium is not in it with the New Haven cap tain's capture of safe hits. Twenty one safe drives at a .512 clip are count ed among the spells and a great ex- pansion of twenty-two points in aver age. Now, that is some jump at the tail end of the season. The contribu- tion included four threes and three twos. It all but landed him in the 300 class. Fohl of Waterbury still leads, but he dropped off three more points. Donovan, a new Waterburian of brief experience, is second, while the departed Smith, whose place he takes is third. Barney of Hartford con- tinues to do good work and Quinn of New London since his return finds time to hit the ball hard. Smith had the most safe hits when he left for the west. His total was 120. Becker of New London, not even in the .28O ranks, is second with 113. and Hall- man of Bridgeport is third with Ill. The century boys are numerous now. Springfield is the only team without g. representative among the leaders. l The records Fohl, Waterbury ....... ...... 334