Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-29 | Page 27 | O'Doul May Bring Phils First Swat Crown since 1898

ODoul May Bring Phils First Swat Crown 1898 Yank Ex-Yank Pitcher Clouts to Lead Babe Hermans Herman's Her Her- mans man's NEW aw voni om Sept 1 s AP AP WIth With on only I a a. Week of ot the season remaining Frank ODoul of ot Philadelphia leads Babe Dabe Herman of ot Brooklyn by 39 to Sl s In t the race rAc tor for the tha batU batting champlon cham cham- plon hip pion-hip o of or the National lea league ue By thu hi time next nut week the former Yankee pitcher her doubtless wilt will have havo brought Baker bowl its first blue ribbon since alnee tho ho palmy days daya of Ed Delehanty back In n 1898 1308 when the tho same structure was raa simply a as the Philadelphia ball park PUke Ed topped the National r Iea league ue with a. a neat 40 tOI In In the year of DC the Spanish American war I Eight points point fall fal to make position Impregnable but Herman for lor some lame weeks has hu been unable to close the c gap p separating him from the top Oth Other r leading regular bat men In Averages Issued today and Including games camu tit of last Wednesday are aret Terry Terr New York Hornsby Hornby Chicago 74 Traynor TraYlor Stephenson Chicago ZU aU Klein 1 Philadelphia Lloyd Waner 4 and Hen flea drick Brooklyn ON OX TOt TOP In addition l to heading the batting list ODoul leads In total hits with 37 37 Horneby Is J. on top In runs run scored cored with ItS and his hll teammate Wilson acts the pace in runs batted In lii with wRit is U 1 In Inthe inthe the tho week ending last lut Wednesday both oth MelvIn Melvln Ott Olt und Chuck Klein entered the circle cirelo reserved for fr tho hitters of ot of forty National league leacue home runs Ott shaded hIs Philadelphia rival by two forty to forty oneS on ay after tying Rogers Ro ra Hornsby's National league record record rec rec- ord on the aft afternoon John Frederick of Brooklyn hit lilt two doubles on Wednesday lu tu run his hI total to to two fifty which shaded by two the modern National league record mails made last lut year by Paul Waner aner Kd ld holds hold the time all re record ord with nix fitly In 1893 Lloyd Waner leads lends In triples with nineteen and Cuyler Culer in stolen tolen bases basei with forty I Despite hla his recent failures Guy Ouy Bush remains at the hi the head of the pitching caravan this week WeCk with eighteen victories vic victories vie vic tories and six defeats for a p percentage e of Ills His teammate Charlie Root Roots Is ts directly behind him hini with seventeen and six for 7 1 and Pat Malone another Chicago entry Is third with two twenty and nine nino for tor of Is next neal with seventeen and seven even fur lOS Philadelphia leas JI In team with with Pittsburg anti and Chicago o tied for tor lI second cond place two to points lower In the scale New York Is fourth with 17 Chicago Jeada Jeaa In fielding with lU one point above the Reds Tied and the Giants Glanb who are tied to foe Lof second honors honora