Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-29 | Page 12 | Tris Speaker is Rapidly Nearing Top of American Legue Hitters

Trio Speaker Is Rapidly Hearing . Top of American. League Hitters CHICAGO. July II By A. F Trls Spesker of Cleveland through his wonderful .hitting? In th last few weeks, has taken a place ejoee to the top of the list ftt batters In the American Amer-ican league, according t averages released re-leased tortjiy and which Include games of last Wednesday. Th hitting of th veteran has placed th Indians at th head of th (let In team batting. Th club Is hitting .27. Bpesker. by orackmg out fifteen hits tn his last six games, boosted hts average from .11 to .IAS. placing him third among player who have participated In fifty-flve fifty-flve or mors game. - Harry HeUu.ena Of Detroit, again has advanced abovs th .4of mark. His average rose from .It to .401, which top all th regulars. "Babe Ruth, who has been passed 10 times. RiansfM to get hold of th ball with amrked regularity snd haa advanced to second pia for th runnerup honor hon-or with .17 "Bab" crashed out his twenty-fourth horn run during th past week. Ruth also loads in total base, his string of 114 hits living him a total of 111 bases. Besides his homers, hom-ers, his blows Include twnty-on doubles dou-bles snd sevn triples. Ruth ha scored sigh ty sven runs. feddl Collins of th Chicago Whit Sox 1 stilt biasing th way with twenty-eight thefts and also Is mors thsn holding his own as th best sacrifice sac-rifice hitter with twenty-nine. Other loading batter: Jamie eon, Cleveland, .M: J. SewelL Cleveland, J6I; JC Collins, Chlcnwo, .W4; Witt, Now York, .140;' Burns, Boston, .MI; J. Karri. Boston, .111; Msnush, Ds-trolt, Ds-trolt, .110: Flag stead, Boston, .121; Williams. St. Ixuis. .ill; Hansy. ie-trolt, ie-trolt, .i:; Cobb, Detroit. .12. Harold Traynor of Pittsburg, by cracking out fourteen hits la his la at sevsn game, has not nlv boosted bla batting average from jftf. to m in the National Iagu. but haw steppd out In front tn total bases, his lit hits Inoluds nine doubles, fourteen triple snd ten homers, giving him a totsi of 1S base. I Rogers Horn s by, ths St Louis luminary, lumi-nary, la at the head of th proossaton. Hnby la hitting ths ball at a .401 clip. Zach Wheat, the veteran Brooklyn Brook-lyn fly chaser, continues to be th runnerup, his mark of .111 placing hi ra next to the St.- I-oule star. Clyde Barnhart of th Pirates Is In front of his teammate, Traynor, with .17. Max Carey, also of the Pirate, has met a Tartar In George Grantham of th Chicago Cubs, along th pa the. Grantham la leading with twenty-seven twenty-seven thefts. , Carey la trailing with twenty-three. Max nag registered seventy-five runs. Cyf Williams, ths elongated veteran vet-eran outfielder of th Phillies, failed to add to his string of homers, which remains st twenty-three. Other leading batters: Toung. Now Tork. .141, Roush, Cincinnati. Johnston, Brooklyn, .See; Foumier. ' Brooklyn. .164: Frlach, New York, 1S3; Bottomley, St. Lout, .lev; Or! mm. Pittsburg, .144; South worth, , Beaton. .!; Hollocher. Chicago, .142; 'O'Fnrrell, Chicago. .137.