The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-08-26
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SIX RUNS BEHIND
IN LEAGUE RACE
Bambino Will Capture Home
Run Honors IT. He Con- Y
tinues His Pace.

CHICAGO. Aug. 26-tBy the
Associated Press -Ways back
when his home run total was ex-
pressed in a single fgure-and
when suspensions. fines and
bleacher hootings We're ore Of 2
daily occurrence5than a four base
hit, Babe Ruth said the ] 9 =
season would end with him the
CHI ampion home-run hitter of tne
major leagues.
In those days, back in May,
Babe and Mrs. Ruth seemed to be
the only people in the Unltsd
States sure of Ruth's comeback.
Today Ruth's challenge to Ken
Williams of st. Louis, whose home
run hitting at the start Of the
season was a sensation, and 5Tiller
Walker OF the Athletics has begun
to sound like the real thing.
Ruth, with the close of the sea
son a little more than month
away, has twenty-Six homers to
his credit. Williams thirty-two
and Walker thirty. The Bambino
smashed ont four this week, while
the best Williams could do was a
pair, Walker. however, connected
with three. Ruth, IL he continues
his present pace will make good
HES prediction. 45
The race in the American
League for batting honors con-
tinues to be a merry one with the
veterans battling to overcome
George Sisler of ST. Louis, who Is
showing the way with an average
of .413- Ty Cobb. pilot of the
Tigers, is trailing Sis1er with 90.
and Iris Speaker, leader of the
Indians, is next. with $40 The
remarka Bile slugging Of Harry
Heilman of Detroit the pastIweek
has placed him among the first
four with naveraSeg of 3 SO. e
averages include Wednesdays
contests
Hausers, Connie Macks' first
sacker, although he has played in
seventy-five games, has made a
wonderful showing during the
past week. From a position down
about twentieth, in the last week
Hauser boosted his average from
g 2 1 to 351, by making seven hits
in eight games. Sisler added three
more bases to his string OF thefts
and continues to set She pace with
the base stealers with forty. Other
leading batters participant ting IN
ninety games or more:
Tobin. ST. Louis 1856. Williams.
ST. Louis g 35;S Sehang. New York,
1913; Galloway, Philadelphia.
800; Blue. Detroit, $50: Bassler.
Detroit 3 8.
Smashing out thirteen hits in
his lascf1ive games. Rogers Horns
by, the ST. Louis star. succeeded in
widening to nineteen points the
gap that separates him from his
rivals;in the scramble for the bat
ting fonors Of the National
League. as compared to eleven
points a week ago.
Hornsby is batting $50, while
Bigbee of Pittsburgh, his closest
rival, is hitting 1853. Grimes of
Chicago is just point behind
Bigbee. Hornsby has bagged
thirty homers with Williams Of
as his closest com
petitor with nineteen. Hank Miller
of Chicago, who has shown a
liking sor left hand pitching, bat
ted his way into fifth place in the
list offleaders by connecting safely
eight times in his last four games
Miller's performance with the eX-
ception of Hornsby was the out
standing feature of the week.
Other leading batters for ninety
or more games:
Hollocher, Chicago .354; Miller.
Chicago .354: Carey, Pittsburgh.
$50; Kelly. New York, g A; tDau-
bert, Cincinnati, -341; Walker,
Philadelphia, $40; Johnston.
Brooklyn. .337; Bancroft New
York, .337.