Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-06
Ty Cobb Takes Big
Lead in Batting

| Chicago, Sept. 6.--As the clubs of
| the American League swing into the
final month of the pennont race, Ty
Cobb Is driving FOR the batting cham
pionship. which. with the exception OF
two seasons has been in his posses
sion for twelve years.
| Unofficial averages released today
show the celebrated Georgian hitting
| .371--twenty- lone points ahead OF Os-
| car Veach, his teammate and closest
batting rival. In 104 games, Cobb has
/ whaled 155 safe blows fer total OF
21O bases. Thirty of Tvs hits went for
| two bases. while eleven were OF the
| three Dagger variety and one home
run The averages include games OF
| Wednesday.
Babe" Ruth, tho averages show, is
] within one home run of tieing the
worlds four-bagger record Of twenty
five established by Buck Freeman. In
addition to driving out twenty -four
homers, Ruth tops the league in total
base hitting. He has stretched -llS
hits bagged in Ill games for n to-
tai Of 240 bases. His home run rec
ord is topped off with twentysi two
base hits and dozen triples.
| George Sister. the st. Louis star,
continues to show the way to the base
stealers with twenty seven with Harry
| Hooper, of Boston, runner-up with
twenty five. Eddie Collins, of Chi
| cago, Is third with twenty-four. Chap
man. Of Cleveland, Is the leading sacri-
flee hitter. with forty-three.
Other leading American League bat
ters for forty or more games: Jack
son, Chicago. 34S Sisler, ST. Louis
345; Peckinpaugh, New York. 340 ia
| cobson. st. Louis 1884: Fewster. New
| York. 325; Shorten, Detroit 319: Ruth
Boston. 31s; Holman. Detroit, BIZ
Collins. Chicago, 315; Mclnnis. Boston,
| 315. 49,
! Ed Roush the Cincinnati star, suffer-
ed a setback In his attack for the Ma
| tional League batting honors, dropping
| into third place with an average OF
| 1923. Cravath. Of Philadelphia. chung
to the leadership with $40, while
Thorpe, of Boston, swung back into
second place with 1924.
| Roush, however, leads the league IN
total base hitting. Competing In llt
| games, the Reds outfielder has slam
med out 143 hits for a total Of il9s
bases. Heinie Groh. the Cincinnati
third baseman. leads in scoring. having
registered seventy-five. Cutshaw. OF
] Pittsburgh, continues to show the way
| to the base stealers with thirty-one
In home run hitting. Cravath is out in
front with eleven. while Williams, of
Philadelphia, and Kauff. Of New York
are tied for second with nine each.
| I,aa hat
tiers for forty or more games: Meusel,
Philadelphia, 31s: Groh. Cincinnati
| 311: Doyle, New York, 302; Young,
New York. SOL; Myers Brooklyn, 800;
Deal, Chicago 800; Barber, Chicago,
| 2s9: Stock. st. Louis. 297; McHenry,
| st. Louis, 297. "
George. Of Columbus. suffered the
biggest batting slump among the lead
| ing batters of the American Associa-
| ton. He dropped from eighth to
| eighteenth place, his average falling
| from .315 to .292 There was little
change among the other leaders. who
continue to be topped by Hendryx. Of
=, Louisville, with .349. Becker and Good,
Kansas City teammates, are giving
Hendryx a run for the batting honors,
az they are in second and third place,
| respectively, with marks Of $40 and
1899.
Miller. Of st. Paul, who last week
broke the tie for home run honors, has
added anather circuit drive to his
string of fourteen. He also is far in
front in total bases with 253. Miller,
Of Kansas City. has registered 90 runs
for his club and leads in this depart
ment. Bob Bescher, of Louisville. with
his Al stolen bases. Is far ahead OF his
rivals.
Other leading association batters for
forty-five or more games: OMara,
indianapolis, 1886; e. Miller. st. Paul.
32a; IIeary, Indianapolis, 1922; Hyatt.
Toledo 31s: w. Miller, Kansas City.
a12; Brief. Kansas city, 80; Kirke,
Louisville, sos.
Diltz, of Tulsa. dropped from sew
enth to eighteenth place among the
regular batters OF the Western League
who are led by the new consecutive
hitting champion, Joe Wilhoit, Of
Wichita. Diltz is batting 1903 compar-
ed with .s19 last week. Wilhoit's av-
erage is .425. with w. Jackson, st. Jo-
seph, the runncr-up. with 81.
Without is the rynner-np to Moran
of Sioux City, in runs scored. Moran
counted 112 times to Wilhoit's 100.
The latter. however, Is far In front In
total bases With 286.
Yaryan, of Wichita, continues to lead
In home runs with ~. Hasbrook. OF
Des Moines. stole (seven bases during
the past week and now leads with thir-
ty-five.
Other leading Western League bat
tors for forty-five or more games:
Connelley, Des Moines, 855; East, Wich-
tia. S52; II. Walker, st. Joseph. s4s;
Spellman. Omaha. 844: Robinson Sioux
City, 323: Hasbrook, Des Moines, 800;
Collins. Joplin 81s; Lindimore. Okla
homa, 34.