Arizona republican., 1921-05-30
Playing Managers In Batting Stride
 Near Top Of List

CHICAGO, May 29-Managing a ball club seems to be conducive to heavy hitting for Ty Cobb, pilot of the Detroit Tigers. and Iris Speaker, manager of the Cleveland Indians who are giving Harry Heflmann of Detroit a terrific fight for the bat 1, ting leadership of the American league.
 Cobb boosted his mark from .395 last week to All for this week. &C., cordfng to averages released today and which included games of last
 Wednesday. while Speaker raised his
 last weeks average Of 37S to .408. Heilmann, although he suffered a
 batting slump. is IA points ahead of Cobb. Heilmann's average is .425. as compared with .454 of week ago. Severeid of St. Louis also has come to the front in grand style. The slugging catcher of the Browns, who was hitting .309 week ago, has at tained mark of 1881 and is in fourth place.
 Babe" Ruth. the king of home run hftters. ran into slump when the Yankees hit the western trail of the circuit. His batting average dropped from .s7S to .345. The big slugger failed to get any four baggers while in Chicago. but in the final game at St. Louis Wednesday he cracked | out a drive which was said to be the longest made at the Browns park l and brought his total string of home 1 runs up to 13. Shocker was pitch l Ing.
 Harris of Washington stole tws, 1 bases while the Senators were tour l ing the west and is showing the way | to the base stealers with ten. thefts I Other leading batters for 20 or more 1 games:
 1 Brewer. Washington. .37s: Sisler
 St. Louis. .375: Tobin. St. Louis, 375
 Stephenson, Cleveland. .363: Williams ] St. Louis. .353: Ruth. New York, 34e | Grimes of the Chicago Cubs wks 1 was filling MerkIe's shoes at frs
 base, struck his batting stride durinf his first invasion of the east and climbed from fifteenth place to fiftl 1 in the National league batting race Most of last weeks leaders went int
 a Slump. Roger Hornsby, the St. Louil
 star. dropping from .457 to .435
 However. he is safety entrenched a
 the top of the batters of the Nation
 al league who have participated II
 20 or more games Snyder, New Yorl
 catcher. is runner-up to Hornsby
 with an average of 1885, while Mo
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 enth place a week ago, is battin,
 -360 and is in third place. Maran
 vile of Pittsburg, who threatened t
 dethrone the St. Louis star a weel ago, dropped to fourth place wit .359; Grimes, who a week ago hi 1926, is pushing Rabbit" with 1858. George Kelly. the New York Giant
 slugger who is leading the Nations league home run hitters failed to ad Ato his total of eight and now is fiv Isbehind the American league riva Babe Ruth.
 Bohne of Cincinnati failed to in crease his stolen base record. Fl } leads, however. with eight thefts.
 Other leading batters are: Johnston, Brooklyn. -356; Tierne,
 Pittsburg. .352; Kelly, New York i, .s47;s Barber. Chicago. .342; Hargrav' Cincinnati. $40: Cutshaw, Pittsburl | $40.
 II Davis of Tulsa made the best show , ing with the willow among the West ern league batters during the pa' 3 l week. The Tulsa star batted him i, self from twenty eighth place to !. berth among the first ten. He is } seventh place with an average { : .376, compared with SIT a. week az 3 Jack Lelivelt of Omaha was unab 3 to keep up pace and dropped frol | third place to eleventh Paddock ( 2 Sioux City. who topped the batter
 d week ago. dropped to fourth wit
 l an average of .379, while Metz,
 teammate who was runner-up, move
 l up to the top of the ladder with a f l average of .409. Walker of Jopli | who has not played during the pa r week, is the runner-up with .Ss' ! | while Robertson, his teammate, s third with 39b.
 1 Haney of Omaha has taken the lea
 ! from Smith of Wichita for stole