New Britain herald., 1927-05-21

base stealer, Cuyler of Pittsburgh. Cuyler has ten, F'risch nine. In his last six games Frisch has gath cred ten safe hits. including a double and a triple. Hornsby leads Frisch now by only 15 points.
 The slump in home runs in the National league this week finds four tied for leadership at six apiece. They are Hornsby, old Cy Williams of Phillies. and the Cub twins, Hack Wilson and Earl Webb.
 Jess Haines. the mainstay of the Cardinals hurling corps. is the real leader of the National league pitch CTS now, with six victories and but one defeat. Charlie Root of Chica- go and Ray Kremer of Pittsburgh each have six. but have lost two de- cisions apiece. Specs" Meadows of the Pirates has four victories and no setbacks for perfect average. Dazzy Vance of Brooklyn is way down the list in games won, but has whiffed 42 batters to date.
 The other pair traded last winter, George Kelly of the Giants for Ed Roush of the Reds, also are having q close race with the willow. Roush is clouting .240 and Kelly .23S. close
 Leading National league hitters: High. Boston, .474; Farrell. New York, .393; Harper. New York. .39o; Hornsby. New York. .376; Mueller New York, .375; r. Waner. Pitts burgh, .367; Harris. Pittsburgh. .364; Terry. New York. .36l: Frisch. St. Louis, .36l; Burrus Boston. 1858.
 American Association
 Whenever the wielders of the will low in the American Association be- gin to creep up on Bevo Lebour- veau, of the Toledo Mudhens he bears down little harder and stays right out in front. He gained from q batting mark of LAY to .4G5 in averages compiled today including Wednesdays games. Lucky pinch hitters. and some of the major league graduates in the Hickey cir cult began to press him.
 Reb. Russell. former White Sox pitcher, has become a genuine 400 hitter with Indianapolis, batting AIS now. with seven doubles and two home runs on his string. Leibold, former Sox fly chaser now with Co., lumbus. and McMenemy, ex-catch- CT with the Sox, are just within the ten leading hitters. Finn, the Kan sas City pinch hitting pitcher, ranks them a few points.
 The home run hitting which perk- ed up a bit last week with the Min neapolis Millers trying to set good example, slumped back again this week. The leaders, Earl Smith Of the Millers and Sullivan Of Colum- bus, each got one. continuing their tie at five each. Hauser of Kansas City is their nearest rival with 4.
 Finn dropped out of the pitching leadership this week with defeat to mar his four victories, and Ed dleman of Milwaukee is now the highest ranking finger in the cir cuit,. with five wins and one loss. sheehan of Kansas City also has four victories but two defeats against him.
 Ferdie Schupp of Indianapolis and old Chief Ben Tineup have the lead in strikeouts, with 7 and A. Jen- nard of Milwaukee, once a member of the Chicago Americans, is much the most liberal in the league with B passes issued.
 Sammy Bohne of Minneapolis still is ahead of his rivals in base steal ing, with nine, but there are three on his heels with seven apiece. Hauser and Ernest Smith of Kansas City and Bruno Haas of St. Paul.
 Leading hitters in the American Association are: Lebourveau. Toledo .465: McGowan, Kansas City, .462; Wyatt. Indianapolis. .45o; Lear, Mil waukee, .43S; Russell, Indianapolis. .41S:, Kirkham. Columbus, .412: Walsh, Indianapolis .s91; Finn. Kansas City. .s9O; Leibold. Colum- bus. .sSe; McMenemy, Milwaukee, .37S.
 The Tulsa wrecking crew. six of them batting between 1892 and 1855, have pushed the Oilers team batting average up to 1856. far in the lead Of the pursuers. Five of the first ten hitters in the Western league iytl i, ip ,,l enth place with the thoroughly sat isfactory average of .392. He is Wingtield. Tulsa catcher.
 Compton of Denver. suffered a slump in his clouting in the last seven games, but still clings to the lead by a meagre three points. close ly pressed by Bennett of Tulsa. Comptons mark is .43S. Bennett is tied with Murphy of Denver at .435. and then come three of the Oilers in row, Porter, Munson and Sturdy.
 The mighty Casey. now in as a regular, responded by shooting from .3G0 to All. Munson leads the
  to Wednesdays games. and his mates are right with him. These six have slammed out o6 circuit drives, Munson getting five in his last eight games.
 Sturdy gained ono theft on Joc Rabbit of Omaha this week. but Rabbit is still well in the lead at pilfering the pillows with lG. Sturdy has 1o.
 Blaeholder Of Tulsa added anoth- CT victim to his hurlins score and now has seven victories without a loss. Thomas of Omaha is the near est to him with five wins without q defeat. Walker Of Denver is the strikeout king of the circuit with S9.