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Show LARRY DOYLE LEADS ; BIG LEW HITTERS Giant Veteran Has Mark of .426; Babe Ruth Tops American. CHICAGO, May 11. With an average of .126, Larry Doyle, the veteran second fbaeeman with New York, haa batLed his way to the top of the National league hit tery, according to averages Including pamea of Wednesday, released today. In Jif teen gu.mes, Doyle drove out twenty-thrco twenty-thrco hits for a total of thirty-nine hascs. Ho is tied with Luderus of Philadelphia lor honors in home-run hitting, each having hav-ing two. New York, with four men among the ton leading halters, clung to the honor.-in honor.-in team batting with an average of .307. St. T.jOnis continues to lead in team fielding field-ing with .970. The ten leading batters: Doyle, New York, .1-6; Flack, Chicago. ?38i Young, New York, .:JS0; Kauff, New York, .3(16; Wilson, Boston, ..160; Paulette, -St. Louis. .355; Smith, Boston. .348; Myers, My-ers, Brooklyn, .347; McCarthy, New York, . 345 ; Allen, Cincinnati, .333. Hamilton of Pittsburg tops the pitchers in games won and lost, having won five without a defeat. In the American league, Speaker of Cleveland, the batting leader a week ago, has fallen to third place, with Babe Ruth, the Boston pitcher, showing the way with an average of .407. In his last six games Ruth baggod six hits, three of them home l tins. Ty Cobb made his 191$ appearance In today's averages. The Georgian has an average of .362 for eleven games, having made seventeen hits. The world's championship Chicago club took the lead in team batting with an average av-erage of .299, while Boston went into the lead in team fielding with .970. The ten leading batters: Ruth, Boston, .407; Mc-Mullin, Mc-Mullin, Chicago, .400; SDeaker, Cleveland. .393; Baker, New York, .384; Tobin, St. Louis, .3S3; Jackson, Chicago, .378; Ris-berg, Ris-berg, Chicago. .375; Hooper, Boston,, .369; Gandll, Chicago, .36S; Lavan, Washington, Washing-ton, .364. Mogridge of New York, Stanley Cove-leskie Cove-leskie of Cleveland, Williams of Chicago and Qallia of St. Louis are the leading pitchers, each having won four games and lost one. |