New Britain herald., 1927-08-20
LL0YD WAIVER NEAR
 APERFECT PLAYER
EmQlats Brother by Climbing to Top of Batting List

Chicago. Aug. 20. R,-The perfect ball player, in the opinion of Don 'nie Bush of the Pittsburgh Pirates is Lloyd Waner and Brother Lloyd. combating Brother Paul. climbed to- day into the list of leading hitters of the National League. Lloyd's entrance, gave the Pirates half of the first ten hitters in the circuit, with the three musketeers" of the the Pirates still perched securely on top. Lloyd was the first National League man to reach the century mark in runs reaching 100 on We'd 'nesday.
 Frankie Frisch Is making another threat at third place. being only two points behind Clyde Barnhart, the lowest of the Pittsburgh trio.
 The hero of last falls worlds series, Grover Cleveland Alexander, who was sold down the river by the Cubs to the Cardinals for the waiver price. is demonstrating that his ef- forts in landing the worlds cham pion flag for St. Louis were not the final flash of form. Big Pete" as his comrades of the Cubs used to eall him, is within the first five flingers of the National League, in averages compiled today including Wednesdays games.
 Alex has won 16 and lost this year for the Cards, and only two pitchers top him in victories. Old Jessie Haines of the Cards, with 19 wins is one of these and Charley Root of the Cubs is the other with l22.
 Cy Williams home run bat has been idle at the 2s mark for fort night. and meanwhile Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson have climbed up to 20.
 Frisch, while waiting for one of the three leading Pirate clouters to slide down the ladder past him, was las active as usual on the paths. ad- ding two more stolen bases to his string to reach 33.
 Leading National League hitters are: P. Waner. Pittsburgh. 1884; Harris. Pittsburgh, .37s: Barnhart, Pittsburgh. .S5s; Frisch. St. Louis, .s51; Stephenson, Chicago, .344; ,Hornsby, New York, .34S; L. Waner. Pittsburgh. .33e; Traynor. Pitts .burgh, .331; Hendrick, Brooklyn, 1928.
 American League
 The three time batting champion of the American League, Harry ,Heilmann of Detroit. seems on his way to a fourth title. He is tied today for second place in the bat ting standings in games including Wednesday, with Columbia Lou tGehrig. Al Simmons of the Athletics stin tops these two by fifteen points but Al has not played for month now.
 Swinging from the heels, to keep ahead of Babe Ruth in the home run race, Gehrig has dropped to .379 now, while Ruth is Just twenty points lower. The Babe tied up the home run race Wednesday at SS, making his second homer III the Chicago White Sox series.
 While the other batters are sue cumbiug to shrinkage of the battlns average, Iris Speaker is standing like a stonewall and the leaders have slid past him, all except three so that Triss ranks fourth with his .363. Johnny Neun. the Detroit first sacker. gained one stolen base on George Sisler this week, and IS put two behind Sisler's mark of 2S now. Whispering Bill Barrett of the soN also picked off a couple and mas two score now.
 Like the Pirate trio holding the batting honors of the Natlonal League, the Yankees have p'tch- ing trio atop the list of the Junior circuit. Hcyt. Reuther and Plpgras lead the league in that order ana ;Hoyt is within one victory now ol Ted Lyons mark of IS.
 Another heavy hitting record tne two base hit mark, seems safe thls year as George Burns, the title hold CT, has only A this year toward ms high total of GA.
 Leading American League batters are; Simmons, Philadelphia, ."94; Gehrig, New York, .379: Heilmann, Detroit, .379; Speaker. Washington .s63: Ruth, New York, .S59: shrang, St. Louis, .359; Fothergill, Detroit 1858: Goslin, Washington. .S4S; Meusel. New York, .34S: Combs, New York, .346.
 American Association
 In the shuffling which rearransed the ten leading batters of the Amer ican Association. Red Russell bon- bed up on top today. for the sec ond time this season. . Ossie Orwoll. working hard to bear the Hens in a critical series, did his best work on the mound ana slumped just enough with the nick ory to drop to- second place. ana rone too far Ahead of Grimes Of Toledo at that.
 Earl Smiths bid for place among the leaders fell short ana the Minneapolis fly chaser dropped hack from 11th to 18th, in averages complied today including Wednes- days games. He got but six hits in seven games. and the first teh remained undisturbed though there were considerable changing or chairs among them.
 Palmero. the Associations leading twirler, dropped his game th's week, but his score of 10 wins ana two defeats was enough to keep him in first place, with Orwoll next. Oss;e won his turn on the hill. So did Sheenan of Kansas CltS' "no now tops the Association in Vic- tories with 19.
 Frank Emmer. the Millers heavy