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Show COBB BETTERS LEAD I IBIffl LEAGUE Gains Twelve Points Past Week; Babe Ruth Is the Leading Rarwnaker. CHICAGO, Sept. 13. Barber. Chicago, and Hornsby, St. Louis, joined the -.300 hitters in the National league during the past week, according to averages released tokdav which include games of last V ed-nesday. ed-nesday. Doyle and Young, New York, dropped below the .300 mark. Cravath, Philadelphia, dropped four points, but continues to top the batters 1 who have participated in fifty or more . games. His average is .336. which is twelve points better than Thorpe, Boston, j the runner-up. Cravath's eleven homers continue to be high in this department. Roush, Cincinnati, has passed the double century mark in total bases with a figure-of figure-of .205 acquired on 149 hits. Cutshaw, Pittsburg, added three stolen bases to his string, and i3 showing the way on the paths with 34. Groh, Cincinnati, is out in front as leading run-maker, having registered 77 times. , Ty Cobb, Detroit's star, has tied Hooper, Boston, for second place in the American league among the base-etenlert. with 2(1, and is threatening to overtake Sisler, St. Louis, who is topping the base-stealers with 27. He is leading the hitters with an average aver-age of .333. which is a gam of twelve points over last week. Jackson, Chicago, Is th runner-up to Cobb with an average of .352. "Babe" Ruth. Boston, the new king of home-run hitters, in addition to setting a new mark fur home runs by breaking out his tventy-xth circuit drive, is the Ifadinr; run-m.'kei- with S3 markers to his credit lf.s 124 hns, which have given him a tot:;! base mack of -.'.'l hais. Include, In-clude, besides his hom-niii nrirk, 2S doul'l'-s a nd I 'L triples. |