The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-22
CRUISE AND ROUSH !. TIED IN NATIONAL; COBB EASY LEADER Hitting of Six Cincinnati Batsmen Keeps Reds in
 First Division JAKE MUNICH TAKES
 LEAD FROM HYATT Hans Wagner Batting ..3i3--Spcaker Passes Sisler in Americau-Ty
 Cobb Is Leading by a
 Wide Margin

i, Chicago, July 21.-Walter Cruise of St Louis has batted into a tie with Eo Roush of Cincinnati for Nationa league honors, unofficial averages re. I leased today showing them hitting .331
 Roush. playing in B games, five less than his rival has driven out 99 hits for 124 bases, while Cruise has stretched 9s hits for a total of 1s1 bases The St 1 Louis outfielder made F doubles, six triples, and three home runs as against eight doubles, six three-base hits, and one circuit drive for Roush. | The terrific hitting of six Cincinnati players is keeping the club safely in the first division and in possession of team ] batting honors. Hal Chase, the veteran first base star with Cincinnati, is a point below the 300 class, and Clarke one of Christy Mathewsons catchers, is hitting .a21, but has only played in 36 games. Hans Wagner, the Pittsburg veteran, Is batting .313 for 5 games. Deal of Chicago took the lead in sacrifice hit deposed Groh of Cincinnati for scoring hcnors, with 56. Groh has crossed the plate 55 times. Carey of Pittsburg in- creased his lead in base stealing to N Hcrnsby is in possession of home run hcnors with eight. The averages include games of Wednesday,
 ROUSH IN TIE
 Leading batters for half of their clubs games: Roush, Cincinnati, .331; Cruise, St. Louis, .331; Hornsby, st. Louis, 1928; Fischer, Pittsburg, .321; Griffith, Cincin- nati, .317; Rariden, New York; 31s; Raw lings, Boston, .313; Neale, Cincinnati, .311; Burns, New York 302; Groh, Cincinna ti, .299.
 Leading pitchers participating in r or more games, rated according to earned runs per game. are Anderson of New York, with r games, won, lost. and l.61 earned runs a game; Alexander O. Philadelphia. p games, 11a won, ' lost, and L92 earned runs a game, and Schupp of New York, with 19 games, 12 won, lost and 1.93 earned runs
 Iris Speaker retained second place in the American league, the Cleveland star disposing sisler of St. Louis with an av- craze of .S43. Sisler is points behind
 
 ing the way with .372
 STUNK PUSHING COBB
 Amos strunk of Philadelphia is giving Cobb a race for scoring honors, however, the Georgia with total of 5s having a lead Of run. Cobb has bagged I20 hits for a total of l87 bases In the S5 games he has driven out "A doubles, F triples, and three home runs
 Chapman of Cleveland increased his lead in sacrifice hitting and base steal- ing to A and 30, respectively. Pipp of New York still leads in home run hit ting, with s. Detroit clung to team bat ting honors, with .254.
 Leading batters for half of their club games:
 Cobb, Detroit s7a; Speaker, Cleveland, .a43; sisler St. Louis, .s3s; Runler, st' Louis, .3a7; McInnis Philadelphia, .3l5; Baker, New York, .314; Chapman, Cleve- lana, .3l0; Heiln1an, Detroit, .29S; c. Milan. Washington, 2s3; Veach, Detroit, .292
 CICOTTE LEADS PITCHERS
 Leading pitchers participating in IS or more games, rated according to earned runs per game, are: Cicotte of Chicago, with 27 games, 15 won, six lost and l.2o earned runs game. Bagby of Cleveland, 8 games, 12 won, seven lost and l.S9 earned runs game. Leonard Of Boston, 20 games, nine won, 10 lost and .63 earned runs a game.
 Munch of Atlanta continued in the front rank among the batters in the Southern association this week with an average of .344, according to unofficial averages published today, and which include games of last Tuesday. Hyatt of Chattanooga has dropped to third place with 333. one point behind Edmondson of New Orleans. who was in third place last week. Gov ington of Little Rock. with 65 runs to his credit, continued to lead the run getters. and Edmondson leads in total bases with 1S7 Bructhi of Memphis added three more home runs to his string and now leads with 12 circuit drives Knaupp of New Orleans leads the sacrifice hit ters with 41, and w. Baker of Little Rock remained in front in stolen bases with p. Atlanta leads with 26s in team batting.
 MUNICH ON TOP
 Leading batters who have participated in half or more of their clubs games: Munch, Atlanta, .344; Edmondson, New Orleans, .344; Hyatt, Chattanooga. 3s3; Kniseley Nashville, .325; Covington, Lit Memphis. 800; T. Sheehan, Nashville, .296; Ellis, Birmingham. .294; Elberfeld, Chat .293; w. Baker Little Rock, 2sl; Tincup, Little Rock, .290; H. w. Baker. New Orleans. .2ss Meyers, Mobile, 2e7.
 Leading pitchers who participated in r or more games, rated according to earned runs per game:
 G. W. L. FIR. lineup. Little Rock ......... F 8 2.14 F'ullenweider, Atlanta ..... 25 Il 2 2.15 T. Sheehan, Atlanta ........ 27 F 8 PA Walker New Orleans ...... "A F [ 2.27 Robinson, Little Rock ...... 2s 14 8 2.31 .