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Show TYRUS DROPS THREE POUTS DURING WEEK Zack Wheat Climbs From Eighth to Second in National Na-tional Batting. CHICAGO, July 27. Tyrus Eay-rnond Eay-rnond Cobb, Detroit, continued to lead American league batters during, the past week. Ty dropped four points, but still is far in the lead. Cobb is hitting within seventeen points of the .400 mark. He failed to register a run during the week, tout his mark of sixty was five , better than Harry Hooper of Boston, who is the runner-up in the run-scoring department. Burns of Philadelphia, the Georgian 's closest rival for hittong honors, is forty-four points behind Cobb. Burns continued to lead in total bases with 159. He has made thirteen doubles, dou-bles, nine triples and five home runs. Babe Suth, Boston, has played in five games since the last averages were released, re-leased, but had failed to chalk up anymore any-more home runs. His eleven, however, remains high. Sisler failed to steal any more bases, and his mark of thirtv-two is high, although Bobby Both, Cleveland, Cleve-land, is but two behind. St. Louis leads the league in team batting with .263. Boston leads In club fielding with .972. Zack Wheat, Brooklyn outfielder, made the best showing of National league batsmen, according to the averages av-erages published today and which include in-clude Wednesday's "games. Wheat climbed from eighth place to second place. His average is .321. Heinie Groh, Cincinnati, continued at- the head of the list with an average aver-age of .350, which is a drop of sixteen points since last week. Merkle, Chicago, Chi-cago, leads in total bases with 139, which include twenty-two doubles, three triples and a like number of circuit smashes. Cruise, St. Louise, with his six homers, ho-mers, remained high in that department. depart-ment. Max Carey, Pittsburg, added another an-other stolen base to his string and leads with forty-one thefts. 'George Burns of New York has scored sxtv-one sxtv-one runs, which- tops the list. New lork s mark of .971 remained high in club fielding and Cincinnati ;s r'Tl average av-erage continued high for team batting |