The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-15
TY COBB IN SLUMP FALLS BELOW 400: JACKSON SECOND Major League Sluggers Fall Off Heavily During Week. Hendryx Leads in
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Chicago, August 14.-Captain Larry Doyle of the New York Giants, continued to lead the National league batsmen with .S& according to averages published to- day All the leaders had slight slumps. Other leaders are Snyder, St. Louis. .s26; Daubert. Brooklyn, sl9; Merkle, New York. .310: Groh, Cincinnati. .so4; Wade .Killifer. Cincinnati, .sos; Safer. Chicago. 300
 Cincinnati and St. Louis are tied for first place in club batting. each having .26. while New York is next with .252.
 Doyle also holds the honors as a run getter with 59. Cravath, Philadelphia, leads in total bases with ITO and also holds the home run record with 15. Carey, Pittsburg. leads in stolen bases with g.
 Mamaux, Pittsburg, crept in the lead among the 600" class pitchers in the league with 17 wins and 5 defeats. The other leaders are Pierce. Chicago. 10 and 3; Alexander Philadelphia, 20 and T; S. Smith, Brooklyn, il and 4; Ragan. Bos- ton, 14 and [; Toney, Cincinnati, and 8; Mayer, Philadelphia, 16 and 10; Stroud, New York, and 5.
 Ty Cobb continues to lead the Ameri- can league in batting, although he has siumped few points since last week. His average is now .3S6 Others in the 300 class are Jackson, Cleveland, 1884; Speaker, Boston, .3S2 E. Collins, Chicago, .390; Fournier, Chicago, SIS: Strunk, Phil adelphia. .3l7; McInnis, Philadelphia and evach. Detroit, .314; Crawford, Detroit, .s11; Lewis, Boston, .3os: Maizel. New York. .So5; Gainer. Boston, .3c1.
 Cobb holds the lead in total runs scored, n al SD ufr pf is hn1I op the title of base stealer. having total of 65. He Is tied with Crawford for the lead in total bases with 193. Burns Detroit, leads in home runs with five.
 Boston nosed Detroit out of the lead in club batting with .2ss. while Jennings men have .265.
 Leading American league pitchers are Foster, Boston, Is won. lost: Wood. Boston, 12 and {; Scott, Chicago, IT and 6; Faber. Chicago IS and &; Dauss, De- troit, 16 and s; Fisher, New York. IA and '; Ayers, Washington, 10 and g. Caldwell, New York. Is and g; Johnson. Washing ton. r and 10.
 The leading batters in the Federal league are Magee. Brooklyn. .sSs; Flick, Chicago, .835; Kauff, Brooklyn, .334; Fischer, Chicago, .332; Easterly, Kansas City, .322: Campbell. Newark, 317; Ko- netchy, Pittsburg. .317 Yerkes. Pittsburg. .3l7; Rousch. Newark, and Deal, St.
 
 Brooklyn leads in club batting with .267 and Pittsburg Is next with 265. konetchy leads in total bases. with 20l. Berghammer leads in runs scored 71 Chase, Buffalo, is the leading home run hitter with 12. and Kauff is the king of base stealers. with s.
 The leading pitchers are Crandall, St. Louis IA won. lost; Mcconnell. Chi cago. and F. Allen. Pittsburg, tied Is won, lost; M. Brown, Chicago, 10 and ,; Cullop, with Kansas City, 15 and 8; Reul- bach, Newark, 12 and z; Packard, Kan sas City, 13 and 8, and Plank, St. Louis, IS and S.
 The leading batters in the Southern as- sociation. including games played Au- gust 10. are Hendryx, New Orleans, .321; P. Allison, Memphis, .3OS; Sloan, Bir- mingham, .3Oz; Lee, Atlanta, 3O6; Paul lette, Nashville, .305; Miller, Mobile .306: Cruthers, Memphis. .29s; Elberfeld, Chattanooga. .296 Lord, Memphis, .294; Reilly. New Orleans, .292.
 Hendryx leads in runs scored with 75; Harris, Chattanooga, with 13S, leads in total bases: Thomas, New Orleans, leads in homers and also in stolen bases, with B.
 New Orleans is first in club batting with .270 and Nashville with .253 is next. The 10 leading pitchers-are Frost. Nash vile, and won and lost; Hogg, Mo- bile, 15 and g.; R. Robertson, Birming- ham, IS and g; Cunningham, Chattanoo- go, 15 and g; H. Merritt, Memphis, IS and 10; Weaver, New Orleans, II and q A. Johnson, Birmingham, IA and g; Keely, and g; Grimes, Birmingham, 12 and 10.