Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-20 | Page 41 | Joe Jackson New Leader with Stick

. JOE JACKSON HEW LEADER WITH STICK Peckinpaugh Drops to Third Place; Thorpe Still Tops National. CHICAGO, July in. "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, the hard-bitting outfielder of Chicago, is the new American league batting bat-ting leader. Unofficial figures released today show he has an average of .354. Peckinpaugh. New York, leader a week ago, dropped into third place, while Cobb and Veaeh, of Detroit, are tied for second with .'SIS. The averages include games of Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Babe Ruth. Boston, is out to establish estab-lish a new ho me -run record. lie has polled eleven circuit drives, the number he collected last season. Johnson of Cleveland, who fell from sixth to eighteenth eigh-teenth place in batting, continues to lead base stealers with nineteen. leading batters from twpnty-five or more games : Jackson. Chicago, Z;4 ; Veaeh, Detroit. Sisler, St. Louis, 337; McMullln, Chicago. 333: Ruth, Boston, 329; Williams, at. Louis, 337; Tobin, St. Louis, 31tf. Jim Thorpe, Boston, continues to top the National league hittcr.s with 373. Oilier leading hatters for- twenty-five or more games: Cravath, Philadelphia, 3-r4; Myers. Brooklyn, 337; McHenry, St. Louis, Young. Nw York, :?2F : Williams, thradelphia, 3.0; Wheat. Brooklyn, 317; Wino, Cincinnati, 317; Burns, New York, f 311; Knurr, New York. 310.