Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-08-31 | Page 31 | Babe Ruth Likely to Set New Record

BABE RUTH LIKELY TO Hi Needs Only Three More Homers to Excel Buck Freeman's Mark. CHICAGO, Aug. 30. Ed Roush, one of the batting stars in Cincinnati's pennant pen-nant drive, is flirting with the batting championship of the National league. Unofficfal averages released today show he is tied with Jim Thorpe of Boston for second place, with an average of .326, .with "Gravy" Cravath, manager of the Philadelphia club, topping the league hitters, hit-ters, with .340. Cutshaw of Pittsburg continues to lead the base stealers, with thirty-one, with Bigbee, a teammate, and Jack Smith of St. Louis tied for second with twentv-six. twentv-six. With the close of the season a month away, Ty Cobb is in no apparent danger of beln- dethroned as the champion batter bat-ter of the American league. The Detroit star is safely in the lead, with an average aver-age of .380. Veacb. Cobb's teammate, is in second place, with .356. Babe Ruth, the sensational slugger with Boston, who is striving to break the major ma-jor league home run record of twenty-five twenty-five established by Buck Freeman of the Washington National league in 1S9D, has shattered the American league record, with twenty-three, bagging i'our in his last six games. Ruth also has scored a total of eighty runs in 105 games. Eddie Collins, the Chicago second baseman, base-man, is pressing George Sisler of St. Louis for honors in base stealing, Sisler, with twenty-six, having a margin of two.