Omaha daily bee., 1915-05-23
TY COBB FORCES TO FRONT
Detroiter Leads American League in
Hitting, Base Stealing and
Run Making.
LEJEUNE HEADS THE WESTERNS

CHICAGO, May 22.-Ty Cobb has dis
placed Fourier as leader Of the batters
Of the American league. Averages pre-
pared here today, inc'u6ing records made
in last Wednesdays games. show that
the Detroit slugger's percentage OF 400 il
the best i'm the league, while his Chicago
rival has dropped to 1872 In addition to
leading the batters. Cobb has jumped III
front Of Maisel of New York as a base
stealer, having eighteen TO the latter's
fourteen, and has scored thirty-three
runs-inore than anybody in the league.
Following Cobb and Fourier are DAILY,
Chicago $50; jackson, Cleveland. 1851
Crawford Detroit, .34s: Lewis, Boston,
1896; LsJorie. Philadelphia, S24; IAapp
Philadelphia. .39O kavenaugh, Detroit,
.3l7; Turner. Cleveland, AIS. In club bait
ting Chicago has climbed TO the unac4
customed position Of second place. with
.56, while Detroit leads with $50.
Ranked according to games won and
lost, the leading American league pitcherf
are Fisher, New York, and o: Benz
Chicago 3 and 0; Faber, Chicago, and II
pauss. Detroit, and /; Morton, Cleve
land, and 2.
Kauff Leads Feds.
Bonnie Kauff. brooklyn, mas ousted hi
manager, Lee Magee, from the battini
leadership OF the Federal league Kaufti
average is Az. The first four places are
filled with Brooklyn players and in the
first twelve with three In triple tie fol
tenth place. are five Chicagoans. Next
to akauff are Westziil, Brooklyn, $500
Cooper. brooklyn. 8S0, Magee. Brooklyn
$50; Mcdonald, Buffalo, al, Wilson
Chicago. .34S; Campbell, Newark, 346
Flaok. Chicago, .S44; Fisher, Chicago, $40
Hanford. Chicago. Easterly. Kansas City
and Mcconnell. Chicago. .SS3 each Ma
gee still leads in stolen bases with thin
teen to Kauffs twelve and eleven bd
Flack, Chicago. Brooklyn leads the league
in team hitting with 100 and Baltimore
is next with 20. Evans of Brooklyn il
leading run getter with twenty-elght
Leading pitchers of the Federal league
according to games won and lost are
Prendergast, Chicago, ana 0: Herbert
st. Louis, and O; Plank. st. Louis, 4 ant
1; Seaton, Brooklyn. 6 and 2; Allen, Pitts
burgh, and .
Fred Luderus. Philadelphia, tops thu
batters In the National with 1886; Knisely
Chicago, helped by five hits IN a gani
at Brooklyn, has attained second plaol
with 49,. Then come Connolly. Bostor Z
$50; T. Clarke, Cincinnati, so: Good, Chi
cago S6i; Groh, Cincinnati, .S54; Lobort
Now York. .3lS; Won Kolnitz, Cincinnati,
3S3; Merkle. New York, 1913; Safer, Chs
cago. .524 The Braves are leading Il
club batting with .26d and Chicago 1
next with .eG5. Bresnahan's eleven stole
bases keep the Cub manager in front
with Robertson. New York, second witt
nine. Safer, Chicago, with twenty-seve1
is the leading run getter. There are fiN
indicated pitchers In the Nations
league, Pierce. Chicago. with four vic
tories; James, Boston. and Coombs
Brooklyn, with three each, and stand
ridge, Chicago, and Meadows. st. Louis
with two each. Alexander. Philadelphia
is credited with seven wins and one de
feat; Mameux. Pittsburgh. with 4 and !
and Meyer. Philadelphia, with 6 and
American association batters are fo
lowing the lead set by Charity, Min
neapolis, whose average is 4s1. Ksnsa
City, with so, leads the clubs
In Jeune Resumes Place I'm Front.
Sheldon lie Jeyne, released by tn
Pirates to his old club, Sioux City, hs
resumed his place in front of the Wester
league batters. hitting All. Then come
Roche. topeka. Alb Kruger, Omahs
40; Mayer, Topeka, .3Y: Williams To
pelSa. .Sg7; Krug. Omaha, .3S6; Fox, 81
Joseph. $50; Griffith. Wichita. $50; Brit
ton. 81. Joseph. .S73; Forsythe, Omaha
$3.50. Topeka, with .2s6 and Des Moinei
with .2Sc, lead in club batting. Twdema
and Wares of Wichita; McGaffigan, Lin
coin; Tannehill, Des Moines. and Doll
Denver, lead the base stealers witt
seven each. Kane. Sioux City, witt
twenty-five, leads the run getters. TOT
notch pitchers OF the Western league an
Narveson, Lincoln. with two victories aut
no defeats; Geyer. Sioux City. with
and 0: Clunn, Topeka, ? andO; MogridgS
Des Moines. and 1; Grover Topeka,
and !; Vance. ST. Joseph, 8 and 1; Nit
chell, Denver. and /.
Note; Averages for Western league in
clude last Tuesdays games; others in
clude Wednesdays