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Show I HEILMANN AND HORNSBY STILL LEADING SWATTERS TT ...... .; -'v.'l . - ,; .' -T' . . ! J Here ara Ropera Hornaby (left) and Hmrry Heiimsnn, leader fn tha major (aa gu raoe for swat ting honor. Heiimsnn is beinf hard pressed by Bab Ruth. ef .141. Kacb Whaat, the Break tyn National Na-tional star al tracer, added 1 paint to hta average. lie t:onilntia aa runner-up runner-up to Hormbjr, with an average of .HI Hark Miller of tha chlraaa Nat lone la appara to b th only player la tha rlrrult who la keeping par with "Or" William of the Philadelphia Natlonale among the horn run hit term, Th elongated elon-gated rhllMes1 oatftidr ta leadlna all tons diitanr h(tra with twVnty-seven lioinvm. while Hark Miller la hi cloaeat rival In th National Imu with fourteen. four-teen. Wllllama hae taken tha lea ta total baeea wllh . liretilesi hi homo ; rune, hta htta laclada ft: teas eoubUe i and four triples, Haruld T rax oar of Pittsburg, who waa out In front a waek aa, haa fcea tied by Prankla Prlarh of th New Terk National. Each has 10T total kaee. For baee at eat Ins honor. Oi ant ham. th pedjr eeoond seeker of th Chicago National, failed to add to hta at ring of twny -eYn. whlla Ma Tarey. th fleet-footed Pittsburg outfielder, awlpad a brao of baa and is trailing Uraa-Ibam Uraa-Ibam with twenty-five. Other leading batters: Tray nor. Pittsburg. Frlach. New TerW. .lit: Fournler, llrooklyn. .114: Teung, Nw Tork, .16; Rfiuh, f'tnclnnetl, .1(1: I Parnhart. Pltlaburr. .lit: Grimm, Pitt-burs. Pitt-burs. .14; J oh ii at on. Brooklyn. .141: llollocher. Cblre.ro. .141; Hottthworth. !(ton. .Ill ; O rarrelt. fhltao. Jit; Nurs-rave. Claclnnml. .127' Mrlnnts. Itoaton, .114; William. Philadelphia. OHIOAOf, Aug. 4 (By A. P.) "Babe" Ruth la proving that he Is as valuable to the New York Americans , thia eeasun as evir. According to average released today and which Include, In-clude, games of taut Wednesday, he Is only two points behind ffarry Hell-matin, Hell-matin, the Detroit slugger, who has been topping the Hat almost fmm the start of the araaon. The btg Yankee made a net gain on the I Detroit star of twenty-four jwnta In the last week. Hetlmann aufferoi a !oas of nine pcints, his average dropping from .401 to .892, while Ruth, by booellng his own mark from .ITS to. .I0, showed a gain of fifteen points. Ruth also maintained his lead among the home-run hitter with a total of twenty-five, two more than a week aero. Playing In even games, he scored e'uht times, ard la out In front aa the beat run -getter, with ninety-five tallica. tal-lica. Besides Ma four-hexggera. Ruth's I 127 hits Include twenty-fivs doubles 'and eight triple, which give him the ! lead In total bases of 243. There haa been little change among the other leading batters during the past week. Fxldle Colllnw of Chicago la leading tna sacriftoc nlttors with twenty-nine 1 and base stealers with twenly-clght. j Cleveland la tha first of the major teajrue clubs to make more than loooi hits this season. Today'a figures show that the India i La have cracked out loo;! hits and are leading the American It-ague In club hatting, with an aver-age aver-age of .291. I H troll Is second, with .:5, and New York third, with .22. Other leariir.g batters: Speaker, Cleveland, .IM); J. Swell, Cleveland, .1&7; Jamleao.i. Cleveland. .SM; E. l-lins, l-lins, CWoag-o. .S43; Witt. New Tork, .3?6; FuteTMtead, Hpaton, .111; Burns, Rnaton. .332; J. Harris, Boston, .332; Williams. St. Louis. .331; McManua, Rt. Ixuls, .127; Haney, Detroit. .124; Cobb, Tetrolt, .124; Myatt. Cleveland, Myatt, Cleveland. .DC; Rue). Weahtnglnn. .516; Veach, Petrolt, .814. Rogera Horneby, eh amp ton bitter of tha National lau. baa pounded hi way In on month from .141 to .401. according accord-ing to average released. tnday and j which Include rameg of laat Wednesday, i Jimmy Xiottoinley, spurred on by th j hitting of hi teammate. Ifnrnehr. haa been making rapid etrldea toward th 1 top of th batting ladder and today te r-T-r-VM Iri thtrrt plir Jlh T.s.XlIJLUL |