Show CINCINNATI v CATCHER CAlGHER CONTINUES TO TOP TAP ALL MAJOR LEAGUE 5 j culls CUBS LEAD lAU U LOOP 1 1 IN NA NATIONAL LEAGUE Hits E its Mean Nothing Re g garding ar din g Standing of Clubs in Flag Race CHICAGO June 1 12 AP lIU AP Ilita AP-Ilita nifty may mayor or may y not mean runs am and heavy y chili chalking king of ot the may flay or may moy not mean games s j DuCk Ducky Bucky Harris and his Senator II a have e managed to get a batting average n. out of t this years year's suppose suppose ly slow stow ball to attain third placed place I Club hitting Three players are are slugging in the upp class clas and statistics show how th th team third In American fielding percentage Yet the tho senators at present are 1 In Inthe inthe the second division in the pennan Chase hu while the Athletics hitting n next t to last laet among the teams ar ai though rating Just above Washing Washington ton In fielding are right up next t to the top Chicago Is leading the Natrona atlon slugging with an average of ot 29 and rank third In fielding Yet th faltering In the thee climb for the flag have watched t th Pirates slip by thorn thom and go to t tr top top and and is hitting Belo Jeto the Cubs and fielding way down tho the bottom The Tigers with players through the tho leading league s san sand an and averaging as a II club at of down in the second division In t th games battle and several oth othi clubs are arc quite a n distance awa awl from where their hitting and anti tiel big records would indicate the would be YANKS STILL SLUG TH THE E BALL The Yankees however have ma made good use of consistently heavy ging to walk away with the he he lead stul m the American race completely ove o ea looking the fact that they are 0 ODi paper next to the worst club in t tha American in fielding and have made madi more errors than anybody else ea the Browns The Yanks ha hajj slumped a little in hitting but st set the pace for tor the majors with an J average e of or for the first tv months of ot the season There have t been een some sonic changes hanges the relative ranging of the leads leads' leading g hitters in both leagues but t t. t e battles are confined to veterans J Js Joe e Dugan lost his stride during dining his a al alp since Bence from tram the Yankee lineup D. D ahas ami has watched Fothergill of at Detro and Babe Ruth slug past him o 0 lead the regular hitters in the ord ordy orde named with averages of ana aria Ruth has established himself as leading league batter pounding o out t his twenty first home run at atthe the tho end eighth week and running run run- ring ning up his runs most-runs total fOr fork fora a wider lead although his teammate rUin Gehrig Is but five behind Hargrave catcher of or the Red ReO has retained the honor of being t the leading IE hitter among major regular regular regula with a percentage of or and Traynor continue to hammy the Pirates along in the win win lose e column but the veteran Third ba bas basman 5 man has slumped a little to see He Heman HG man of Brooklyn go ahead Roge Hornsby Is an timer old-timer who h baJ apparently misplaced his slugging bats the Cardinal manager having let his average a slump despite t U fact that the club fared well 8 as hitting goes on their Eastern ins in vanion m having ha trailed t fJ some weeks in the matter of base bas bass stEn stealing finally pilfered his thi nth ter-nth for tor the Yankees and edg edged d ahead Cuyler's twelve continue W o 0 lead the National race Burns of the Indians is setU setting the pace for tor the majors in doubles driving having collected a total twenty The twenty-one twenty made mad ma J by Frisch of or the Giants are the beat beU record In the National of at St. St Louis Is the leading hom home home- run hitter In the other circuit fl MEADOWS TURNS J JIN IN SEVEN WINS i r Meadows of Pittsburg finished the first two months with a cle clean clear slate of or seven victories for a r re record on the mound Ho t of ot the Yankees and Lyons of th White Sox with two ten-two and to te three records respectively ha have Kaye e the best flinging record in the Amer Amer- Amer can j Leading hitters In twenty or mo more more American games Fothergill of ot D De De- troit Ruth of at New York 4 Dugan New York Burn Burns Cleveland eland Chicago Chicag 72 Hellmann Heilmann Detroit tat FaW Chicago G Gosling Washington n l New York Bassler Detroit Leading National Natrona hitters in twenty twenty ty h or more games Hargrave o q o. o Brooklyn Cuyler Pittsburg Herman Brooklyn Traynor nor Pittsburg J J. J Wilson Philadelphia High Boston Southworth New York 35 Brown Drown Boston Bressler City Dean Philadelphia J 1 |