The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-05-29
SISLER PROVING
A ONE-MAN BALL
Team ALL round
Home Runs Are Getting SO
Numerous Score Keepers
Are Demanding More
Pay in Big Leagues.

CHICAGO.-George Sisler continues
TO prove himself a one.man ball team.
for the st. Louis first sacker again oc.
cupies leading position in almost
every column Of the American league
statistics released Saturday, which in.
cludes games of Wednesday.
Sisler heads the batters with a mark
of .4Ss, despite the fact that his is
three points lower than last weeks av.
srage. He has scored the most runs
Ss-made the most hits-65-leads in
total bases with s6, heads the base
stealers with IS, has banged out ten
two-baggers against eleven for the lead.
ers, and his circuit drives total five
enough to place him near the top.
Ed Miller of Philadelphia has been
climbing steadily and is second TO Sis.
ler in batting, with an average Of .402,
Miller now has ten home runs against
twelve for Ken Williams Of the Browns,
who has taken Babe Ruths position as
the chief slugger OF the circuit, Ty
Cobb is third with 39S, other leading
batters in twenty or more games being:
Speaker, Cleveland 397; O'Nelll, Cleve.
hnd. 1896; Witt, New York .377; Clark,
Detroit, 35S; Schang, New York, 1852;
Jameson. Cleveland .94l Blue, De.
troit. 1898.
Ken Williams, besides leading in
home runs, ranks second TO Sisler in
stolen bases with IA.
Torporcer Still Leading.
George Torporcer, the slugging in
fielder with St. Louis, by pounding out
thirteen hits, boosted himself 10 the
top Of the National league batters with
an average OF .404.
Tommy Griffith, who has been hit
ling consistently for Brooklyn, is the
runner up with mark Of .S65, while
Rogers Hornsby OF ST. Louis and Big
bee, the fleet footed Pittsburgh out
fielder, are tied for third place with a
mark Of .372.
Hornsby leads the run getters with
talles, is out in front in total bases
'lth a mark of So, and leads home run
,ives with eleven. Max Carey Of
ittsburgh continues to set the pace
mong the base stealers with nine
thefts.
Other leading batters for twenty or
more games: Maranyille, Pittsburgh.
$40; Hargrave. Cincinnati, $40; Kelly,
New York, 1868: J. Johnston, Brooklyn,
.353; Southworth, Boston, .35l; Grimes,
Chicago, .34S: Hollocher, Chicago, .347.
Kruger Looking Good.
Kruger Of indianapolis is staging a
show all by himself in the race for bat
ting honors OF the American associa-
ton. He tops the list of hitters with
an average of .435. is tied with "Reb''
Russell of Minneapolis in home run hit.
ting. and is runner up to Bunny Brief
of Kansas City. who is far in front in
this department with a total Of Il round
trip blows Kruger and Russell have
connected with nine homers, according
to figures which include games Of
"Wednesday.
The indianapolis star smashed out
twelve hits in his last six games-a
performance that shot him to the top
displacing King" Lear, the Milwaukee
second baseman, the leader a week ago.
Christensen of St. Paul continues 10
set the pace for the base stealers with
a total Of nine.
other leading batters for twenty or
more games: Myatt. Milwaukee, .426;
Lear, Milwaukee. .416: Good, Kansas
City, 1856; Hendryx, st. Paul. $50;
Griffin. Milwaukee, .S77; Kirke. Louis
vile, .375; Jourdan. Minneapolis, .S75
Russell, Minneapolis, 1868.
Omaha Man Up.
Manush of Omaha is the new batting
leader Of the Western league. Bagging
nine hits In five games gave Manush
the coveted position with an average
of .435. Elsch Of Sioux City. the leader
a week ago. is second. with an average
Of AIS. The figures include games OF
. Tuesday.
Davis OF Tulsa and Washburn OF
Wichita have run into another tie in
home run hitting, each having slam
med out eight Hemingway Of Sioux
City is showing the way 10 the base
stealers with ten.
Other leading batters for twenty oi
more games: East Wichita. AS Da
Wis. Tulsa, .4Os; Fisher, st. Joseph
.3si: Metz, Sioux city, .9Sl; Lelivelt
Tulsa, $50; DE Fate, ST. Joseph. .S1I
e Middleton. Oklahoma City, .S7S; Pitt
Oklahoma City, .36S.
Schultz In Southern.
Shuttle Of Mobile strengthened his
hold on the batting leadership OF the
q Southern association with an average
Of .44O, according 10 figures which IN
clude games of Tuesday. Barrett OF
Little Rock pushed ahead OF his rivel'
in the home run hitting scramble. top
ping the heap with five, Schultz, Con
molly Of Little Rock and Taylor of Bir
mingham have connected with foui
homers Henry OF New Orleans con
tlnues to lead IN base stealing with
fourteen.
Other leading batters for twenty ol
more games: Mcmillan, Memphis. .3s5
silva, Birmingham, .37s; Tucker New
orleans. .372: Connolly, Little Rock
.3e4: Schllebner, Little Rock, 81; Tay
lor, Birmingham. .Sj5, Leathers Mo
bile. .Ssi; Niehoff. Mobile. .3i9, Jack
son, Little Rock, .942.
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