Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-05-28
cobb is HITTING
IN OLD-TIME FORM
CBy Associated Press)

| NBy AsSOcidCed RFeSS)
Chicago, May 28-Managing a
ball club seems to be conducive
to heavy hitting by Ty Cobb, pi-
lot of the Detroit Tigers, and
Iris Speaker, manager of the
Cleveland Indians, are giving
Harry Heilman, of Detroit, a ter
rife fight for The batting leader
ship of the American League.
Cobb boosted his mark from
| 1916 last week to All for this
week, according to averages re-
leased today and which include
games of last Wednesday, while
Speaker raised his last weeks av-
erage of 1873 to .408. EIeilman,
although he suffered a batting
slump, is IA points ahead of Cobb.
Severiod, of St. Louis, also has
come to the front in grand style.
The smuggling catcher of the
Browns, who was hitting 300 a
week ago, has attained a mark of
.381 and is in fourth place.
Babe Ruth, the king of home
run hitters. ran into a slump
when the Yankees hit the west
ern trail of the circuit. His
batting average dropped from
.378 to .345. The big slugger fail
ed to get any four baggers while
in Chicao but in the final game at
St. Louis Wednesday, he cracked
out drive which was said to be
the longest made at the Browns
park, and brought his total string
of home runs up to thirteen.
Other leading batters for 20 or
more games: Brewer. Washing
ton, .378: Sis1er, St. Louis. .375;
Tobin, St. Louis, SIS; Stephen
son, Cleveland, .363; Williams. St.
Louis, .353; Ruth. New York .345.
Grimes, of the Chicago Cubs,
who. filling Merkle's place at first
base, struck his batting stride
during his first invasion of the
east and climbed from 18th place
to fifth, in the National league bat
ting race. Most of last weeks
leaders went into a slump, Rog-
er Hornsby, the St. Louis star,
dropping from :457 to .435. How
ever, he is safely entrenched At
the top of the batters of the Nc
tional League who have partici.
pated in 20 Or more games. Sny-
der of New York. is runner up to
Hornsby, with an average OF sos
while McHenry, of St Louis. whU
was in seventh place week ago
is batting 800 and is in third po-
sition. Maranville. of Pittsburg
who threatened to dethrone the
St Louis star a week ago drop
ped to fourth place with $50.
Grimes. who week ago hit .326,
is pushing rabbit" with 1853.
George Kelly, the New York
Giants Singer, who is leading
the National League home run
hitters. failed to add to his total
of eight and now is five behind
his American League rival, Babe
Ruth. Bohne, OF Cincinnati,
failed to increase his stolen base
record. He leads however, with
eight thefts.
Other leading batters: John
ston, Brooklyn, $50; Tierney,
Pittsburg, .352; Kelly, New York
.347; Barber, Chicago, .342; Ha-
grave, Cincinnati, $40; Cutshaw,
Pittsburg, $40.
Reb Russell, the old Chicago
White Sox pitcher, who is playing
in the outfe1d for Minneapolis,
looks like the Babe Ruth of the
American Association. The big
southpaw, who took to outfeld-
ing after his arm refused to give
the old ball the ZIP, has batted
himself UP to a place among the
leaders. In addition he bagged
four home r;;1s during the past
week, and took the lead for cir
cult drives with nine under his
belt.