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Show OLSON M MILLER ' LEAD V1AJGH HITTERS Joe Gedeon Cracks Ball at .351; Gus Hetling Star in Western. CHICAOO, April 29. T-an Olson of the Brooklyn Nationals, with .545, and Ward HiUcr of the St. Loms Americans, with .600 are leading hatters in the major leagues, accoidlng to averages compiled here today. Ty Cobb 1 beginning to move upward among .American league batsmen. The figures show that Cobb, though , out of recent games because of illness, has increased in-creased his average from .231, as shown last week, to .300. Graney of Cleveland leads the battere in total bases with 1 and ia tied with FelSch of Chicago in home runs at two each. Felscli leads in runs scored with 10. Speaker of Cleveland and Baker of Xew York are ahead in stolen bases with 4 piece. The following are the .300 hitters: W. Miller, St. Ixmis. .o00; Nunamaker, New Tork. .387; Speaker, Cleveland, .380: Janvrin, Boston. .353; Gedeon, New York, .351: Schalk, Chicago, 333; Henry, Washington, Wash-ington, .333; Hellmann, Detroit, .3 IS; Smith, Cleveland. .318; Hoblitzel, Boston, .316; Gilhooley, Xew York, .315; Magee, Xew York, .316; Shanks, Washington, .316; Henriksen. Boston, .310; Pratt. St. Lo'iis. .3u9; Gardner, Boston, ,30-i ; Felscli, Chicago, Chi-cago, 302; Cobb, l.fetroit, .300. In the National league, fa- Flack. Chicago, Chi-cago, and J-Ielnie Groh, C incinnati, lead in ru ns a cored at 10 ea c h. Sa i e r C hi -cago, leads in home runs with 2. and Chase. Cincinnati, and Carey, Pittsburg, are ahead in stolen bases with 5 each. The National league .000 hittera are; Olson, Brooklyn, .iio; Doolan. Chicago, .600: Mollwlta, Cincinnati, .462; Chase, Cincinnati, .455; Compton, Boston, .412; Daubert. Brooklyn, .391; Mowrey, Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, .3So; Q. Burns, New York. .378" Hlnchman, Pittsburg, .376: Kauff, New-York, New-York, .304; Flack, Chicago, .361; Groh, Cincinnati, .351 ; Konetcliy. Boston, 346 Salor, Chicago, .333; Paskert, Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, .333; Collins, Boston, .333; NtehoiT Philadelphia, .3S3; Beal, Cincinnati, .823; Rariden, New York, .333; Zimmerman, Chicago, .325 ; Yerkes, Chicago, 320' Clarke. Cincinnati, .315; Griffith, Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, .313: Gonzales. St. Louis, .303; E. Burns, Philadelphia, .300. .Seventeen batters in the Western league hit .400 or better in the first week of the season. They are: Breen, .Des Moines, .571: TJvingston. Sioux City. .556: Monroe, Topeka, .600; Melean, Des Moines, .467; Kane, Sioux CJtv, .462; Krueger, Omaha, .462: Smith, Omaha. .444; Connelly, Sioux City, .444; Kilduff, Omaha., .437: Shestak, " Denver. .429: Hetllng, Wichita. .421; Stevenson. Lincoln, Lin-coln, .417; Hlnchma n, Lincoln ; W?tson. Pious City ; Cochran, Topeka : Br tt on, Wichita, and Krug, Omaha, tied with .400 each. Hetlinff scored the most runs, 7. and also leads in total bases with 14.' He is tied for home-run honors with Connelly. Sioux City: Krug, Omaha; Der, Denver-Miller. Denver-Miller. Omaha; Tobin. Wichita, and Stevens, Denver, with one each. Leonard of Columbus, with .43, jB the ! leading batter in the American aasocla- i tlon. |