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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-24 | Page 9 | Senators Take Hitting Honors

Type issue
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Senators Take Hitting Honors
Type article
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 9
OCR Text SENATORS TAKE HITTING HONORS Manush Clouts 21 Safe Blows and nd Cronin 19 During Dur Dur- During ing Week NEW VORK June 24 The MV-The continued continued con con- heavy hitting of Heinie Manush Manush Ma Ma- and Joe Cronin of Washington dwarfed all other othe batting p per e r form ances in the major in the past w week e e k although several Nat ional s h owed notable gains In the seven days f. f which ended with f ft fl ye yesterdays yesterday's t er d ly s games l f Manush drove out lv 21 hits a and d Cronin t fA 19 to gain gam second and third places in iti the he batting 11 1 i s jor r The former ormer had an average of h while Cronin was Manush lanush only one point behind In contrast Al Simmons of Chi Chicago ago A American league leader made only nine hits and fell off 13 points to while Ben Chapman of New York anc and Fred Schulte Schult of ot Washington Washington- woun wound I up in the fourth and fifth i th not notches hes Pepper Martin of the St. St Louis Cardinals Car Car- last weeks week's N National league pace setter revealed the only f I average in the elder circuit as Randy Rand Moore of Boston and Jimmy Collins of or St. St Louis registered point 20 gains and Spud Davis of l picked up 18 Martin dropped t to fourth place yielding the top lop t to Chuck Klein Phillies' Phillies slugger at The struggle between KJ Klein in an anLou and Lou Gehrig of the Yankees for slugging slug slug- ging honors was a stalemate as each finished with three first places an anone andone and one second in his league Their ir pace pac pacesetting pacesetting setting totals were 56 runs runs runs' batted in 21 doubles and 13 home runs fo for Klein and 61 01 runs 63 runs batted inand in inand inand and 17 homers for tor Gehrig The leading 10 hitters in in each majo major league CoIl follow ow AMERICAN LEAGUE i AB B. R R. H. H PC Pct Simmons Chicago II 83 63 2 25 5 49 II 93 Manush Washington ton 62 n J ISO 0 O 52 99 gg 33 Cronin Washington 62 2 43 89 U 35 Chapman New York 57 S1 n 47 74 3 Schulte huite Washington 54 01 n 43 73 22 3 West Welt Si St LOUIS Loul 51 31 65 63 34 Hodapp Boston ston 2 2 74 4 34 62 46 87 3 u Ug A I J New York 62 62 60 83 3 Go Washington 56 42 19 79 32 38 NATIONAL LEAGUE Klein Philadelphia 64 20 43 Si U 36 Davis Philadelphia 63 23 25 78 3 Moore Boston 53 US 30 63 65 3 Martin St. St Louis 10 54 84 04 Collins C St. St Louis 50 35 fj n Philadelphia 64 41 95 Medwick St. St Lou Louts LouLs la 55 34 72 Frederick Brooklyn II 59 21 27 21 74 H Cincinnati 1 3 33 70 10 lJ Hafey t CJ St SL CIr Louis 1 61 I ig i 37 78 Ii gg Stephenson Chicago 52 US IllS 25 59 Sg LEGION TEAMS TEAMS' CLASH The Cardinals entrants in the local local lo lo- cal American Legion junior baseball league B division will opp oppose se the Farmington junior of the Northern lea league ue in a practice game same at the Liberty Liberty Lib erty school grounds Sunday at 3 p. p m. m
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